my fogger keeps my humidity really well. i need to get a timer to run it 5 minutes every hour. when i get home from work its usually 40-50% five minutes of the fogger jumps it back to 60-70%. my problem is that my enclosure is a 20 long aquarium and i guess the water that the fogger puts out is collecting on the bottom of the tank :S its not like flooding or steadily getting higher or even halfway up the height of the substrate, but id rather not have a centimeter of standing water in there :S unless this isnt bad, but i cant imagine why itd be good. i was thinking of maybe an undertank heating pad. they sleep in the plants anyway so i could put the heater under the tank, and itd heat the water and evaporate it. getting rid of the water AND keeping my humidity up overnight. any suggestions?
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problem with water in enclosure
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It would depend on how well the substrate can breathe. I have a 40g tank that had a mold problem in the gravel substrate. Originally, I had the entire floor of the tank filled with 1.5" of gravel and 3-4" of soil topping the gravel and an under tank heater to try and keep the water level down. Yellow mold kept growing in the gravel. After cleaning the tank and gravel, I only covered 3/4 of the floor with soil. I covered the other 1/4 of the floor space over the heater with wood chips, which allowed the moisture to evaporate more easily. No more mold problem.
