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riddick07
12-21-15, 10:52 AM
Anyone else have these guys? I wanted to know how others keep their chinese beauty. Cage size, temperatures, humidity, feeding, substrate, etc?

I have found with my adult he dislikes temps hitting in the 80s and is very comfortable with temperatures between 75 to 78. The young one seems to enjoy low 80 temps occasionally but stays most often near the 75 to 78 range like the adult. The major difference I noticed between a lot of the information I found and watching mine is that they enjoy higher humidity than even 70% which seems to be the common number people give for humidity for them. I give them logs and ways to get off the wet substrate if they want a drier area. I feel like this is opposite of what I have read. I see a lot of info with them using dry substrate with a wet hide area but when I had mine like that they were less active and felt dry/crackly almost.

I had the new platinum beauty on aspen but just changed his cage yesterday to the cocohusk and he had dived under it the minute he realized it was different than aspen. I find that Roy, my adult, tries to dig under the cocohusk too. Yesterday, I switched out his old with new cocohusk and he tried to dig under it but it wasn't deep enough. Both of these two never tried to bury until the wet cocohusk was given to them. I also noticed brighter colors in all three of my beauties with the higher humidity and lower temp ranges.

I was just wondering what was normal for others chinese beauty?

IW17
12-21-15, 06:05 PM
I have no experience with Chinese beauties, but my time beauty I keep ambient temps around 75, with a basking spot of 81. Any higher and he will stay in his water bowl 24/7. As far as humidity, 70-80%. I'm sure I could go higher, but it's a chore at that point. I can keep it at 70% doing nothing. When he's in she'd I'll mist daily.

Minkness
12-21-15, 06:15 PM
Good info to know! I am looking into getting a ridleyi beauty next yaear some time.

riddick07
12-21-15, 06:56 PM
Yeah humidity wise right now its close to 100% since I just changed the substrate out and didn't let the substrate dry off any before putting it in. I swear it looks like Roy's day was just made when its so high. He literally starts digging around trying to wiggle into the substrate where it's even wetter. But don't give him a water bowl...he just ignores that! And then he goes into the hide where the humidity is as high as it gets to chill instead of in the dry hide. I kind of cycle where I let the substrate dry out, then spray it for a little while before just dumping the old for the new soaked substrate.

So far I haven't had an issue with any kind of mold but I use F10 so I'm not sure if that helps kill any growth before it gets started.

IW17
12-21-15, 06:58 PM
Sorry meant Taiwan beauty