Thank you-these are my sentiments as well, but not just because of humidity, but because of specie variation as well. Desert lizards do not do well with high humidity, and while a Texas Collared might, I believe that even there dens during winter may not be that high humidity. If you've been in California during the winter in the desert, it can get down to freezing but, the air is dry by comparison to Texas or other regions, so if your going to include moisture with the brumination mix I would be congnisent of the local your collared comes from with this in mind. Also I think EVE pointed out something that is very important, and if you think about the temps in Summer Collerad land, no matter where they hail from, the temps are usually at a minimum in the 85-95 degree area and in Texas in the 100's, so if you think about brumination, 60 or 65 degrees is plenty low, now don't quote me but I think Eve IS righ on this one, It is unessecary to have lower temps, my dickersonaes went through the winter at temps in that range, may have dropped a little more a few times but they went through fine and were inactive and did not loose much wieght at all. So I only mention this because I believe if you look at our posts on the forum on can get a sense that Collareds have a porpensity to get respiritory infections, and poor husbandry can certianly contribuate, too much humidity may also be a big player as well.... just my two cents worth! Cheers!!
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