Heat/Humidity Dilemma?
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:58 am
So I currently have my 6 small crabs in a 10G, but moving them into a 40GB ASAP.
I was having a really hard time with humidity, it was going down to 20% even with spraying 5x a day.
I purchased a humidifier for the tank, and installed it last night after doing a full clean out, and adding more substrate.
The humidity went up to 80%, and then overnight it's gone down to 40%-50% and is holding steady there. I've sprayed it several times, but would like to avoid doing that constantly.
The heat is now up to 90 degrees, and I'm worried that it's too hot in there for them.
If I turn the heat lamp off, it drops like 20 degrees within 5 minutes.
This has been the most stressful endeavor I've ever taken on, but I'm anxiously waiting for the moment when everything calms down and I can really enjoy my new babies.
My ultratherm came in the mail yesterday, so I'm going to install that as soon as I get the chance, but what if the ultratherm makes my tank too hot? Is there anything I can do to not have it on full power?
My tank has 6" of substrate (used to do 5:1 sand/ee but now doing 3:1 sand/ee as it was drying out too fast), I am using cat food dishes as my pools, 1 for fresh water and 1 for salt (I will be installing a bigger salt water pool when I get my 40G). I have a huge shell shop, a hidey house, a food dish, and I have a moss pit but there's really no room for it, so I'm going to be suspending the shell shop and putting the moss pit on the ground.
Once I get the 40G I'll have room for everything, so that will be a nice change!
I was having a really hard time with humidity, it was going down to 20% even with spraying 5x a day.
I purchased a humidifier for the tank, and installed it last night after doing a full clean out, and adding more substrate.
The humidity went up to 80%, and then overnight it's gone down to 40%-50% and is holding steady there. I've sprayed it several times, but would like to avoid doing that constantly.
The heat is now up to 90 degrees, and I'm worried that it's too hot in there for them.
If I turn the heat lamp off, it drops like 20 degrees within 5 minutes.
This has been the most stressful endeavor I've ever taken on, but I'm anxiously waiting for the moment when everything calms down and I can really enjoy my new babies.
My ultratherm came in the mail yesterday, so I'm going to install that as soon as I get the chance, but what if the ultratherm makes my tank too hot? Is there anything I can do to not have it on full power?
My tank has 6" of substrate (used to do 5:1 sand/ee but now doing 3:1 sand/ee as it was drying out too fast), I am using cat food dishes as my pools, 1 for fresh water and 1 for salt (I will be installing a bigger salt water pool when I get my 40G). I have a huge shell shop, a hidey house, a food dish, and I have a moss pit but there's really no room for it, so I'm going to be suspending the shell shop and putting the moss pit on the ground.
Once I get the 40G I'll have room for everything, so that will be a nice change!