I was thinking about a similar setup last week!!
Here's my idea.
You get a small tub (margarine tub/whatever) and cut a small hole in the top. you insert a little funnel (you can buy mini funnels cheap, like the kind you'd use to fill up a flask).
You take a flat piece of plastic and cut it out to be just a little bit smaller than the diameter of the hide at the top. You put 3 or 4 thick dabs of hot glue on the plastic dish and position it inside the hide, but just a bit lower than the real ceiling to leave a gap for water flow.
This creates a false ceiling, so when you put a bit of water in the funnel on the top, it runs into the top of the humid hide, hits the flat piece of plastic you stuck up in there, and runs down the sides and drips into the paper towels/whatever around the sides of the hide and down to the floor. Thus dampening everything.
Maybe it's an overly complicated system, but I think it would be handy to have that set up incase your leo refused to leave the humid hide for a few days. I've run into that this week with reduced activity and a quasi-brumation thing going on. Hopefully she comes out of it.
The real trick to my hide idea would be getting the flat plate level enough that the water would drip off it relatively uniformly. But all you really need is an empty plastic tub, another empty plastic tub to butcher for a flat piece of plastic, and some hot glue. Oh, and scissors or something to cut with. I might try it this weekend if I get the ambition.
It would still hold a lot of moisture because there wouldn't be a huge open hole on the top or anything.
I'm done rambling...
>>Two of my geckos absolutely refuse to come out of their humid hides so trying to keep it moist is very very difficult. They both freak out, hiss/bite, if i even go near them and trying to add some water to the paper towels while they are there is a big NO NO.....lol. (the will only come out late at night to eat/poop when i'm sleeping....i never see them out!) They both jam themselves in the hide when i try to get them out, its funny actually.
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>>I've had to get some Shed Ease cause Nala is having huge problems with one foot...the skin just never comes off without me intervening. I try to soak her alot but i'm starting to get sick and tired of being bit! She's getting bigger now and YES its starting to hurt.
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>>I was thinking of doing this.....tell me what you think. I bought all new containers for humid hides. I was going to run a aquarium hose into the bottom of each hide and the other end into a funnel outside and above the tank. This way i could add bits of water without disturbing the hide.
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>>Short of wearing thick gloves and stressing them out daily i'm not sure what else to do.
>>Thanks for any help
>>Red
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>>Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0
>>LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
>>Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
>>Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)
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Blaine
0.0.1 High Yellow Juvenile Leo (Echo)
also, when it evaporates, it'll make it more humid and ur leo might like it 