Leftycatcher
New Member
We are new to Chams and have yet to receive our new little guy till after the new year. We have a 24*24*48 inch screen cage with a house temp of 69-71 and house humidity of 21%. The cage at the top (with two ceramic 150w at the bottom corners away from branches) a red 100 w heat lamp on top. 60 w basking bulb (both elevated 1.5 inches to keep basking and top climbing spots below 100). The cage temp ranges from 96.8 in the basking spot to 69 at the lowest in his hiding spot... to around 72 to 80 in different spots. We have a small 4 inch fan flowing air from one heater to help move some heat and lower the temp near one of the ceremic heat bulbs. We purchased a temp and humidity gague to put in the enclosure and it reads at 79 and 31% at its lowest. When the mist King system turns on, the cage temp drops dramatically for about 1 to 1.5 hours. Hiding spot is down to 64 and basking is down to mid/upper 70s. (This is probably due to positioning of the mister.) There are spots that don't get wet and those stay in the mid to upper 80s. Are we over analyzing out cage set up or is this not OK for the temps to drop that low???? I also didn't mention that we have Velcrod plastic to 3 sides of the cage to try to keep heat in