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Questions about shingleback skinks - first reptile
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<blockquote data-quote="Sdaji" data-source="post: 2542239" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>The easiest way is to provide floor heat with a lot of top ventilation, and of course not adding moisture to the enclosure. You'll want a basking lamp too, and with such a long enclosure you'll be able to provide their requirements without turning the entire enclosure into an oven. Simply having a whole lot of ventilation and air flow is just going to bring the humidity to the same level as the room, and that's probably going to be too high, so you need to be thinking about actively drying it out rather than just avoiding it from becoming more humid than the room humidity. It's not just about adequate ventilation with more being better; too much is actually a bad thing in this case. I wouldn't be using fans, because it's unnecessary and it'll blow more humid air into an enclosure you want to be less humid than the room. More ventilation and air flow basically keeps your enclosure closer to the humidity of the room, which is fine for some species but would be too low for others and too high for something like these critters.</p><p></p><p>These things do come from extreme environments where basking temperatures of 70-80 degrees celcius (yes, burn your skin if it's exposed to the ground type stuff) are not unusual for a lot of the year, but they don't tend to use them (unlike things like the monitors they share their habitat with). Somewhere like western NSW or especially in southern SA you'll often see literally hundreds of them running around all day every day around October-November, but if you go back to the same place in late January it can be difficult to find even one, and if you do find one it'll probably be hiding under a dense bush or active just coming up to sunset.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sdaji, post: 2542239, member: 688"] The easiest way is to provide floor heat with a lot of top ventilation, and of course not adding moisture to the enclosure. You'll want a basking lamp too, and with such a long enclosure you'll be able to provide their requirements without turning the entire enclosure into an oven. Simply having a whole lot of ventilation and air flow is just going to bring the humidity to the same level as the room, and that's probably going to be too high, so you need to be thinking about actively drying it out rather than just avoiding it from becoming more humid than the room humidity. It's not just about adequate ventilation with more being better; too much is actually a bad thing in this case. I wouldn't be using fans, because it's unnecessary and it'll blow more humid air into an enclosure you want to be less humid than the room. More ventilation and air flow basically keeps your enclosure closer to the humidity of the room, which is fine for some species but would be too low for others and too high for something like these critters. These things do come from extreme environments where basking temperatures of 70-80 degrees celcius (yes, burn your skin if it's exposed to the ground type stuff) are not unusual for a lot of the year, but they don't tend to use them (unlike things like the monitors they share their habitat with). Somewhere like western NSW or especially in southern SA you'll often see literally hundreds of them running around all day every day around October-November, but if you go back to the same place in late January it can be difficult to find even one, and if you do find one it'll probably be hiding under a dense bush or active just coming up to sunset. [/QUOTE]
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