Enclosure Humidity

[ColdBloodedOne]

I have set up my 7 slings. I am keeping all of them in there smaller enclosures in a 10 gal aquarium with an under tank heater. They are all about 5 inches off the substrate on top of a Critter keeper wit hair slits all around. I have a plexi lid with many air holes on top to help keep heat in. The temp is about 75F give or take 1F for house heat. All the small enclosures are showing high humidity. I am worried it may be too high. I filled the acrylic cubes myself with Bed-A-Beast a couple days ago. The others were already set up and did not show that much humidity. I wiped the humidity off the lids before this pic. Thanks for any input or suggestions on what I should do.
In the pic from bottom up.
Cubes: A difficilis, A. parahybana and G. aureostriata.
Sauce cups: A. anax, B. albopilosum, and G. rosea.
Vial: B. vagans

[xgrafcorex]

id say they are a bit too moist. my first set up had moisture building up like that because i was too worried about keeping the right humidity according to the gauge i bought. i let the substrate dry out complete and just keep a dish with water at all times and regularly feed and everything has been fine since. too much moisture and mold will form and it attracts mites, and i guess crickets like to lay eggs in moist soil too.

[ColdBloodedOne]

I will not be adding any moisture to the enclosures. I just wonder if they will be ok in the mean time?

[PhormictopusMan]

I would open them every day to vent them out. Containers like that (I have similar) can hold humidity for a long time. When it is stale it will grow mold. You can also remove some of the moist substrate and dilute it with dry substrate. You still want to make sure there are a lot of ventilation holes.

Also, from how I understand your setup, with air insulating your enclosures from the ground, your heating will most likely be ambient which is good. You want to avoid having your enclosures sitting directly on the heating source. Spiders will regulate temperature by instinctively burrowing downward when they are too warm, regardless of the fact that they are getting hotter along the way.

--Chris

[ColdBloodedOne]

I have the small enclosures about 6 inches or so off the heat source on top of an overturned critter keeper. So off the heat source. I am using a T-Rex thermometer and a laser type thermometer i have. They both read the same.

[solaceofwinter]

ive got a similar setup but all my enclosures have dried out and arent as humid anymore, spiders dont really mind all eating doing fine. but its not as humid as it could be...