Leopold hates humidity

[mightyclyde]

Leopold is our yearling Leopard. He really hates it when we mist his terrarium (3 ft x 2 ft enclosure) and will truck right off to his hide spot. He won't come out until the humidity starts to drop down, and the process reverses. He'll stay out and play if I don't mist. Anyone else run into this? We've read that humidity may play a part in pyramiding, and thats why we've begun raising the humidity above 50%. Leopold comes out if its < 30%.

 

[reptylefreek]

It might make it hard for him to breathe. Leopards seem to be prone to respitory infections if the humidity gets to high. Along with keeping his substrate moist, try to spray him down with water till it drips off of him. Then if he goes to hide it will still help with humidity. Also if you offer him mulitple hides, you can use one as a humid hide, and when his body tells him he's in need of a little humidity, he will hide in there. You can attach a wet sponge to the ceiling of his hide, or use sphangnum moss. Babies like to hide in the moss so I think that would be the best bet. You wet the moss and he wont know the difference. WELCOME TO THE FORUM!!