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Hey everyone, I'am getting an iggy next tuesday morning. I have been keeping various reptiles for 15 years. I plan on housing him in a 65 gallon reptarium. I have read through every post on kingsnake about substate for iggy's, and i'am still confused. Paper towels and linolium sound easy to use, but how do you keep the humidity high in the cage?? I have thought about using bed-a-beast because it will keep humidity high. Have heard that any loose substrate is bad. Someone please give me some info on what they use for substrate and how they keep the humidity high. thanks for any replies.

Newspaper should be approporiate for substrate and easy to clean up. This time of year should be easy for humidity.

Cindy

You say a 65 gallon reptarium? Well, if it what I am used to being turmed a reptarium, it doesn't matter what substrate you use you are not going to keep good humidity. It is the plastic frame with a zip up mesh right? Just another warning, iguanas can tear through those things pretty easily and, they ARE seseptable to melting from heat lamps. I had one, one of the NEW ones, and it melted with a heat lamp positioned 2 feet above it. I was only using a zoo-med basking bulb. Just some warning.

There is a plastic cover that you can purchase for these cages.

What scares me is that an active lizard would rock the cage enough to upset the lamp.

I use repitarians at reptile shows, etc when I am present. I also use it for a travel cage.