Looks good! Loving the cage and setup. If you want to boost the humidity a little more plant your plants in clay pots. When you water the plants soak them in a bowl to water them from the bottom. It will encourage downward root growth and the clay pots will give off a lot of moisture. I go in...
Hah! Right! Thanks for the compliments and help everyone. I did lose Louise a couple months back. She was fine, eating a lot, and the next day I founder sitting in the water bowl. She was having a hard time getting up and walking around. I thought maybe somehow she over heated or.. me and...
I had some thing similar not too long ago. I bathed them, with a soft tooth brush applied Hibiclens 1:10 ratio with water. Dried and applied cream. I did a 50/50 of athletes foot cream and triple antibiotic cream. With 2-3 days It looked like it never happened. :)
Saw a babie softshell on Lake Erie shore here in Northeast Ohio yesterday. Very cool and cute. I thought he may have been injured. My brother touched him and he scrambled into the lake. He was fast!
You’ll need a step drill bit to punch clean holes through plexi, if you go that route. The issue will be your heat lamp. That’s a lot of scoring. The simple fix would be go the route Toddrick reccomends. It’s inexpensive and buys you time to plan for a larger enclosure.
Like Tom said it helps to have a custom built enclosure that will hold in humidity by being almost sealed. Aside from wire holes and door seams it’s sealed.
Right I should have expanded on that. I have a taller enclosure that allows me to keep plants in pots. It allows the light to expand. T5s put out quite a bit of output. I used to grow coral of all types under a 4 bulb hood. At that time people said T5s were no good .. then they said leds...
Yea heat will dry things out for sure. The biggest contributor and what hold my humidity the most is three tropical plants. So much, that I only must the plants to keep humidity in the upper 90s. Maybe that would help? I know when the plants need watered because I drop into the 80% humidity
Mine aren’t a year old yet and I watch them soak and drink, so I backed off the soaks. When I soak they seem too not enjoy them as much as when they were hatchlings.