Desert geckos and humidity

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The accepted wisdom is to provide a relatively dry environment for desert geckos (not limited to leopard geckos) and to add a humid hide. There is concern that a desert gecko kept in too high humidity will develop respiratory problems. In spite of this, some people have reported regularly misting their leos (it was a thread on here but I don't remember where or when) and having them be more active and lively. I have a small colony of desert banded geckos (coleonyx) who are in a front opening stacked tank. In order to make the stacking safe, I velcroed the upper tank to the lower tank. They are in the lower tank, which means that they have heat from the UTH under their tank and also heat from the UTH under the tank above them. Because of the glass and the close stacking, there isn't a lot of ventilation and the tank is quite warm and humid. The geckos, however, are thriving and laying eggs, at least one of which seems to be fertile. Now I actually am planning to move them to a better ventilated, less humid environment. However, I am interested in hearing other positive and negative experiences of keeping desert geckos in higher than usual humidity.

Aliza