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And to anyone curious about my misting setup, it's a combo. I have a seconds timer and a hygrostat-thermometer. So the seconds timer provides power to the hygrostat-thermometer controller which is set to attempt to maintain a 75% humidity during the day and 99% during the night with a 7%...

Yeah, it highly depends on the setup. I have to mist more often as a flogger doesn't keep the humidity up high enough and uses more water. I have a really weird setup for my misting system that is a scheduled but only if needed sort of thing. I drain the excess water, which isn't a lot to keep...

Definitely true about the surface temp being more important than ambient. Honestly it's one of the issues in keeping reptiles as they rely on surface temps and ambient. Ambient I think affects them more at night and early in the morning before the sun starts pumping out the heat.

Well, I did a smoke test and the enclosure definitely doesn't have issues with airflow. It's not rapid airflow, but it's definitely not stagnant either. The smoke entered the ventilation slots and was dissipated pretty quickly.

See in heavy into science always have been, so I know temps don't peak in nature until later in the day. Mind you I also run my basking lamp in a vertical fashion with a angled basking branch rather than the angled basking lamp and level branch. Honestly there's a lot of different setups, I...

First post just indicates a tropical chameleon, I would like to assume it's for a Panther.

Personally, I don't see an issue with the daily chart, the spikes earlier in the week are concerning. I actually think that having the basking spot slowly get up to temperature is more like what would happen in the wild and probably beneficial to the chameleon.

The surplus water has to be drained away to avoid water logging the soil. However, in certain setups this is okay, such as setups for amphibians, but you still need to cycle the water for the health of the amphibian.

It needs to be Friday so I can post a fired up pic. Chandler decided to fire up a bit today.

Honestly, if it helps, I did a thread on here when I built my bioactive setup.

Also what depth are you doing your substrate? There's a very useful blog post about bioactive on the forum somewhere, I don't have it handy right now.

I'll let others point out more stuff, but reusing the water as I recently learned myself, it needs to be highly filtered, both chemically and biologically. A budget of $400 is a little low I think for a bioactive build. And low dissolved solids water.

So basically just patience then.

Alright, so no recycling, looking up the hydrogeology of Madagascar though, the setup I have should mimic it pretty well. Just a bit worried I haven't seen any mushrooms yet, however the plant growth would indicate that I've got fungus in the substrate.

Well, in doing reading on bioactive builds, because I didn't create an artificial water table, my setup runs a bit differently than most. I don't get creating an artificial water table as typically the water table is quite a ways below the surface of the ground, with acceptions based on...

Actually, I have a quick question. The drainage water, which is still a dark red brown, can I recycle it through the setup to ensure that the mycelium is present? I'll post a picture of the drainage water when I get home from work. I did add a mycelium pack to it upon initial setup.

I am a little worried that I haven't seen any mushrooms pop up yet, but they might in due time. Might add in a bioactive booster pack just to make sure. Although the lack of mushrooms could just be they haven't fruited yet.

On a related note, I'm planning on doing a smoke test on the enclosure soon to see how air flows through it.

It's actually a custom built enclosure that I drew the plans out for, and got a local company to produce. I can break the cage down for transport if needed. As for ventilation, there are slots cut out and the positioning of the heat lamp produces a chimney effect. The entire top is screen and...

Yeah, I know it's frowned upon as the feeders may chew on the chameleon. He usually only leaves one or two uneaten on feeding days, but eats them first thing the day after. Plus with all the plants, the crickets are able to feed themselves, and they are well fed and gutloaded before hand, so...