Hi Brendan...
I tried to reply to your email, but it was bounced back saying that it was undeliverable.
so....I'll post my reply here:
Hi Brendan,
I did leave Zoe for the first two days without water, or being misted. After that, my brother came over and filled his dripper bottle (we have a "little dripper"
, but he did not mist him.
I must admit, I am not the most diligent person about misting Zoe, as I do believe that overly high humidity is what helped him to get so sick last winter. I keep TONS of live plants in his cage which are well watered, and I believe that they help to keep the humidity at an appropriate level. It usually never goes below 50%, but is usually higher than that (about 60% on average) On a typical day I will mist him once or twice, for 10 or 15 minutes, most often only once a day though...and over the course of that week that I was away, he was not misted at all. Also, we have to take into consideration that during that time, it was very hot and humid outside, and I did not have any air conditioning running in my home, so the overall humidity of my house would have also been high.
I don't have an automatic mister, unfortunately. I'd love one, but I can't find one around my area...and I'm not that mechanically inclined to be able to build one.
hmmmmm....maybe one more project I could bug my dad for.
Zoe did go that entire 5 days without food. I did leave crickets in his cage...but he never eats crickets or any other bug anymore. He hasn't since March. but I was hoping that if the hunger got to be too much for him...he might. but...he didn't. He just went hungry.
I really am going to have to find someone who isn't afraid of him, and teach them how to feed him for me. The worry just about killed me while I was away!!
Hope that answers your questions....
Kim
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Kim
