Hello again,
I have installed a lucky reptile fogger on the veiled cage,that type with the thick long hose.Humidity in Cyprus can fall to 20-30% and I want to raise it a bit just to be on the safe side.Does this really raise the humidity though?I can see the fog coming out of the hose at the top of the cage,through the mesh,down the basking spot,spreading at a couple of pothos branches and then disappears.Can this raise the humidity of the cage?After all it is a cage not an aquarium,how can it hold humidity.If this is true then we can only raise humidity at specific place(where the fog lands)but are chameleons animals that can detect humidity and spend some time in specific places until they feel hydrated enough?Please share your thoughts..
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humidity/fogger question
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Use a quality digital guage to measure the humidty in various parts of the cage, and you'll know if the fogger is helping. Best not to have it (the fog) directly pointing towards the cham - if you ask me its much Better to raise the humidity of the whole room. Aim for a range of 40-60%
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Sandra
BC Canada
Unfortunately cannot raise the humidity of the whole room,what's the problem of directing the fog on the chameleon?
I don't find a problem with the fog reaching the cham. Some of mine liked to perch under the tube and let the moisture bead on their skin. The nebulizer disks on ultrasonic foggers do heat up so you don't want the cham to have access to the mechanism, but the fog itself is about room temp. Unless you happen to be using a vaporizer that heats water to boiling to make steam. You'll be surprised at how much a fogger can help with humidity even in a cage. Depending on how dry the rest of the room is, the cage can still dry out fairly fast, but the key here is to have repeating cycles throughout the day. Time how long the humidifier has to run to raise the cage humidity (in the most sheltered part) to the high point you want, then shut it off. Then time how long it takes the cage to get TOO dry again. This way you can figure out how long the cycle should be and how often it should run. You can keep the cage humid longer by hanging plastic sheeting on back and sides.
