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Hi,
I am going to bouild a large arboreal cage for some lizards. It wil be at least 6ft tall, 4ft wide and about 2ft deep. I need the humidity to be above 65%. I have seen large humidifiers that look like human room humidifiers rigged up to similar enclosures. I have seen Habbamist humidifiers for sale, and they look pretty good, but I don't know if they could keep the humidity high enough in such a large enclosure. What type of huumidifier should I get? Can I hook a humidistat to anything like what I mentioned? Do you think I could find a cheap used "Home" humidistat/thermostat that would normally be hooked up to central heating/humidity devices? I would appreciate any help with this. Thank you, Josh

One thing that i use to keep the humidity up in my Knight Anole enclosure is cypruss mulch as a substrate. It was slightly damp when i got it so i had to bake it in the oven to get it almost dry. But its tough to get it really dry... so i said what the hell i'll see what it does for humidity. Works great. The cage is 4ft wide x 3.5ft tall x 2ft deep. It stays right above 60% humidity. So if you either sprayed more or got a humidified it would probably work really well. Also, it would depend how humid you climate is outside.
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Later,
WhisQuila

There are a lot of options for humidity. Misters and plants, to me, are almost always the most aesthetically pleasing, while remaining efficient... Let the mist spray the plants, and evaporate. We go through very little water, with this setup, and maintain humidity quite nicely. We'll probably add an extra misting cycle, just so the humidity doesn't get much of a chance to bottom out just before the next cycle kicks in, but, overall, it's a great system.

There are misting heads that attach to 1/4" tubing. These heads can be varied and combined as needed to provide anything from a fog to a fine mist, to a coarse mist, to a drip. Mount vertically on the wall (to spray across the terrarium and wet plants at a lower level) or aim down from the ceiling. A simple pump-up garden sprayer works well for providing the requisite pressure, and a lawn sprinkler timer works nicely for setting up the spray cycles (ours puts up to 6 terraria through 4 cycles per day; the nicer ones can vary things much more precisely).
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Justin, Julie and the menagerie...
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PS- If you're not in an apartment, you can attach this type of system directly to your water lines.
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Justin, Julie and the menagerie...
www.baskingwonders.com

I keep anacondas so I need large enclosers with high humidity 75-90%. A trick I do is to eliminate vents on the upper end of the cage. What I would do as I am building your cage is to put a series of 3-4" vent going up the sides of your cage and use duct tape to block of portions of the vents to control it. Along with that I would ad a misting system to mist 2-3 times a day for just a second or two. Put a couple of temp/rh gauges in at differant levels to get good messurements. Good luck with your cage.