Malafet
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Hello.
About 5-6months ago a friend gave me her Leopard Gecko as a gift because she couldn't care for it properly. As a beginner and lover of well-looking terrariums that I had seen on the internet, I bought Eco-Earth as Substract, quickly realizing my mistake, I exchanged it for Calcium sand substracte to give her a natural looking desert-landscape since shes already a full grown female.
My current dilemma is that Puerto Rico is naturally a very humid place and the ceramic heater that I got for the nights, is too much heat during the day. I can't invest on a ceramic dome holder so it HAS to stay resting upon the hard-screen top for now. The terrarium is a 10 gallon tank so I am using a 60 watt Ceramic heater, and an UTH for when I turn on my A/C, (during which time, the humidity drops to 10-20%).
However, during the day time, shes mostly exposed to a humidity of 50-60% and its been very hard for me to find the correct set-up to counter-act this high humidity. I wish to be helped, because lately shes been eating less than normal (that could be due to the fact that she spent an entire week,before I got the Ceramic heater, in a 65-70 degrees tank when I slept because of my A/C OR it could be a stress problem caused by the constant changes her tank has been undergoing)
I hope I didn't drag my explanation too long, I just wanted to give everyone a good enough picture of my dilemma. I just want her to be happy so I can sleep in peace. Overall she looks healthy and strong, but her eating habits have changed noticiably and shes been sleeping a lot during nights too.
Here is the current set-up along with an inside view of her day-time humid box, which I understand is necessary for shedding and cooling down during the day. I am using a Ceramic Heater and UTH during nights when I turn on my A/C and a normal 60watt infrared bulb for night-time on an effort to keep humidity down without expending too much electricity and ruining my parents XD
About 5-6months ago a friend gave me her Leopard Gecko as a gift because she couldn't care for it properly. As a beginner and lover of well-looking terrariums that I had seen on the internet, I bought Eco-Earth as Substract, quickly realizing my mistake, I exchanged it for Calcium sand substracte to give her a natural looking desert-landscape since shes already a full grown female.
My current dilemma is that Puerto Rico is naturally a very humid place and the ceramic heater that I got for the nights, is too much heat during the day. I can't invest on a ceramic dome holder so it HAS to stay resting upon the hard-screen top for now. The terrarium is a 10 gallon tank so I am using a 60 watt Ceramic heater, and an UTH for when I turn on my A/C, (during which time, the humidity drops to 10-20%).
However, during the day time, shes mostly exposed to a humidity of 50-60% and its been very hard for me to find the correct set-up to counter-act this high humidity. I wish to be helped, because lately shes been eating less than normal (that could be due to the fact that she spent an entire week,before I got the Ceramic heater, in a 65-70 degrees tank when I slept because of my A/C OR it could be a stress problem caused by the constant changes her tank has been undergoing)
I hope I didn't drag my explanation too long, I just wanted to give everyone a good enough picture of my dilemma. I just want her to be happy so I can sleep in peace. Overall she looks healthy and strong, but her eating habits have changed noticiably and shes been sleeping a lot during nights too.
Here is the current set-up along with an inside view of her day-time humid box, which I understand is necessary for shedding and cooling down during the day. I am using a Ceramic Heater and UTH during nights when I turn on my A/C and a normal 60watt infrared bulb for night-time on an effort to keep humidity down without expending too much electricity and ruining my parents XD
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