humidity

[reptile man]

also i haven't seen him drink in a long time should i be worried he's not dehydrated just haven't seen him drink in a while

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by reptile man

also i haven't seen him drink in a long time should i be worried he's not dehydrated just haven't seen him drink in a while

My monitor never drinks :/ When their environment is correct they wont have to drink they get their water from their food and their environment in the form of humidity. Just keep an eye on him and offer water but if everything is right you might never see him drink.

[Pirarucu]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

My monitor never drinks :/ When their environment is correct they wont have to drink they get their water from their food and their environment in the form of humidity. Just keep an eye on him and offer water but if everything is right you might never see him drink.

Not quite correct. They get it from their food, but not from the humidity. The humidity only prevents them from losing the water they already have.

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by Pirarucu

Not quite correct. They get it from their food, but not from the humidity. The humidity only prevents them from losing the water they already have.

thats what I ment but i worded it wrong. With correct humidity they dont lose water from respiration.

[murrindindi]

Just because you may not see them drinking doesn`t mean they don`t, nor does it mean if they don`t your husbandry is "perfect", conversely if they do there`s not necessarily something wrong with it!

[Aanayab1]

Just want to add that quite often when I feed I'll see my ackies take small drinks after they are done but not always. It mainly happens when the food gets super caked with the substrate. I have come to the conclusion that the possible reasoning is to rinse the substrate down. The humidity is 72ish% day and 86ish% night, sometimes higher dependent on time-frame since last cage clean out.