hey rogue! yes...it's really dry. i was manually misting every day, but that got really old and with my schedule, became kinda hit and miss. about 2 months ago, i picked up an eco-terra monsoon mister. it has 2 separate hoses/nozzles so i san put a hose in 2 enclosures at a time. right now, i have a bank of 4 display enclosures, so its fairly easy now. i set the monsoon timer for 120 sec to come on about every 6 hours and just let it go. the hygrometer reads btwn 50-60%. i can adjust higher or lower as need be by altering the spray time or the cycle time.
as for sex of the beast, it was billed as female. i haven't probed her yet (as i stated in another thread, i'm chicken....i need to get over it.....i just don't want to hurt them

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thanks for the kind words, i think she's pretty as well. "she's" approx 4.5 feet now and when i got her last year the vendor couldn't really say how old definitively, i'm guessing somewhere in the 2-3 (4?) year range?