>>Amazon-I have used a water bowl and spraying, and have found both do fine. I am pretty sure that many of our Hl's get a lot of their mositure by the food they eat, but I would also say that when you state that if you use a water bowl they will lose their wieght and more or less die, I wonder if there would or could be other factors involved in your observations? Could there be some other husbandry issue? While many do use damp soil, and I agree one hundred percent that in Texas the ground does hold moisture even when it looks dry, JUsr dig in a dry stream bed; howwever after going through the drought we did this year, I only saw one THL in south Texas and I am in the field doing another study. As Cable intimated below it seems they do estaevate and become dorment. This seems to be the case this year. So I do think whether you spray or use a bowl (by the way which works for some and not for others) many have mistaked thier need for hydration.....

The very fact the animals were largely absent during a drought is significant evidence that they were AVOIDING the dryest portion of the habitat, ON THE SURFACE, and instead choosing to stay underground where the moisture is.

One does not have to dig in a streambed to find moisture. Dig ANYWHERE and 12 inches down it is moist!
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