ok guys the heat I think is doing good for now but my humidity is like 30 or 40 I spray in the morning and at night but it goes down so fast. This one is for a nile monitor all he does is dig holes and hide right now. how can I keep it a the humidity a nile needs

What is your substrate? You could always add a live plant or two, planted or in a pot. Your monitor might like the cover and it would help with humidity. Is there any way you can post a photo of the enclosure? I might be able to suggest plants better.

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yes I will take one today , its weird I have this substrate I got from petsmart. its like seeds of some sort called repti somthing. but I pull about two inches of top soil over it and its growing in there kinda like grass . the temps are good and there shoud be enough humidity because there kinda growing in there but who knows.

typing fast again sorry, guys ill take a picture when I get home

I"m guessing that substrate does nothing to hold in the humidity. Funny that its growing in seeds with the topsoil.

I know nothing about the animal. What is its natural habitat?

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Did you say something about now you have a Nile monitor?
Also what are you using to measure the temperatures? I'd get an additional reading from another source to make sure it's working properly.

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That caught me off guard as well!
I thought we had been talking about a savanna.

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he was, I think he is talking about a different tank now.

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