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Humidity Question
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Im having a little trouble with my humidity in my terranium(1 foot deep, 1 foot wide, 1.8 feet long) - its only a steady 90%! Does it need to be any higher, like 100%? And how the hell could I do this? - I currently have 1.5 inches of moist perlite inside, I plan on misting and fanning daily but what could I do to raise the humidity - maybe add more water to the perlite I was thinking I dunno any suggestions??

PS I have one cake in there so I assumed those need high humidity will 90 do the job though?? 95% = cutoff to form primodora? Anyways im just lookign for suggestions as to what to do to higher the humidity

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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
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The purpose for misting is to raise the humidity. Set the nozzle
as fine as you can get it. Don't spray the cake. Spray the sides
or install a drip shield. How do you know it's 90? ie what are
you using for a hygrometer / humidity gauge? Some are
misleading. Have you calibrated it?
2" of wet perlite, 1" of water.
PS, you want 95%+
Hope that helps. :peace:
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: WakingUpLate]
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To induce pinning the humidity needs to be 95% or higher. As said in the other post try and mist it. Ohhh and do you have a hygrometer, if u dont id invest inone. Radioshack has a plethra of them for aorund 20 bucks, and make sure it s calibrated.
good luck



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Re: Humidity Question [Re: phishphan]
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Yes I got myself a hygometer/thermometer digital indoor/outdoor water proof with external sensor from radioshack for 30 us dollars=)
its reading 90% atm so im going to mist i guess and i think my perlite could use a bit more water

thanks for the help=) wish me luck

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Re: Humidity Question [Re: WakingUpLate]
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OK I misted the sides and added a tiny bit more water to my perlite HOWEVER atm the highest humidity it is staying steady at is 91%!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is my hygrowmeter fucked????? I never calibrated it btw I just bought it at radioshack the guy put it in a box I took it out at home and placed it in there

How do I calibrate?

Any help would be sweet

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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
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there is a salt tek to calibrate it, it goes something like put it in a bag of salt and it should read 75%, i've never done this so you should search the archives, but another good idea to stop having to fan would be to get a 15$ fish tank bubbler put it in a jar of water/h2o2 mix and a polyfil whole in the opposite bottom corner, that eliminates fanning and it should get your humidity up a few points, whatever you do post it back here to help out others


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Re: Humidity Question [Re: Surf Bum]
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Ok well what I ended up doing was calibrating my therm/hygro just to make sure everyhting was ok, and it turned out to be fine.
I added more water/h2o2 to the perlite and misted but still my humidity is like 92% at the highest......

Im not sure why its not getting pasted 92% I have 2 inches of moist perlite and i mist 2x a day and fan 3x! what is wrong!

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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
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you may need to buy a humidifier. whats your temp at?
humidity is proportional to the temp.

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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cookiewhore]
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a constant 73

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