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What is a good way to lower the humidity in my cage? My biggest problem is at night when I turn off the heat lamp. The humidity is around 65% with the light off. Any suggestions? Thanks

Lowering humidity is hard. The first step would be to find a better location. My guess is the room in general is humid (A basement, perhaps?) so bring it to a dryer area. If its a house-wide thing, then I'd move it to the dryest room and put a dehumidifier in there.
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0.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Zeo)
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos (Vienna, Unnamed)
1.0.0 Golden Retriever, Rocky, 10 years young

What type of hydrometer( I think that's the right term... ) are you using? If it's a cheap one, the humidity may not be as high as it says it is.

Also, if it's placed up near the screen top, cool air coming in when the lights go off may be causing moisture to condense on the warmer gauge, and be giving a false reading. Sort of like your glasses fogging up when you go outside on a cold day.

Hope this makes sense and helps a little.

D.A.

I'm using a cheap coil hydrometer. The cage I am trying to use is made out of mesh. As far as I understand warm air contains more humidity so I was hoping the increased airflow would result in lower humidity. The humidity is more of a state wide thing (florida) rather than just the house (let alone a room). With lights I can get the humidity down to 35% easily. I was thinking about trying a night bulb but it may be hard to keep the tempature below 80 this way. I'm going to look into a dehumidifier as well

I'm afraid I'm not gonna be of much help then... Somebody that uses mesh enclosures and lives in a warm damp climate will probably have much better advice than I can give you, past what I already have.

Mesh enclosures just seem to me to leave you at the mercy of whatever the room/house conditions are, so I have avoided them.

I'm sure CheriS or one of the others that live down your way will probably be able to help.

D.A.

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