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In reading this forum over the last couple months, I seem to remember people saying that they thought that available mist droplets to drink was mor eimportant for keeping leaftails than actualy humidity. Is this a true statement for Phants?

On a related note, would you all say that paper towels would then be a suitable substrate for quarantine over, say, cocohusk? I am still "quarantining" the phants I acquired in January, in part, because the fecals have either been on the tank sides where they dry quickly, or on the cocohusk where they are not overly discernable from the substrate. I am keeping them in individual pen pals to keep space to a minimum and allow them to find food more easily. They appear to be doing pretty well in these for now. But I want to run fecals and get them into a vivarium in the near future.

I was considering putting paper towel into a freshly cleaned cage overnight, misting and covering most of the top with plastic to boost humidity in hopes of getting fecals that are both freash and easy to locate and collect.

I'd be very interested to hear the group's thoughts on this.
Thanks!

as far as keeping humidity up for phants, i would suggest it, because they are much smaller than the species we were talking about before, and thus probably much more susceptible to sudden dehydration. the easiest way to maintain high humidity in a good enclosure for them, in my opinion, is to have a live planted terrarium/vivarium.

and for the fecals, see if you can find a spot they poop in more frequently, and put the wet paper towel there, hopefully it will keep it moist enough for you to be able to do a fecal.