Well if he's only eating a teaspoon a day that's something wrong in and of itself. Now Liv is bigger than when we last conversed, but still, I put a whole cup of food with him on a plate, sometimes on days I will stay out late, I put that plate and an extra small plate of about 1/5 of a cup, and it eats 3/4 of it on most days. On days when it eats only half of it, I get upset. I'd be VERY worried if it only ate 1 teaspoon, and that's not just because I worry a lot.
I think you should seek a second opinion from another vet or friend who knows the deal, as having a fancy certificate and being the head of department or professor doesn't always mean they know their stuff. If Odin is underweight, eating hardly anything, and the professor fails to see that something is wrong in and as of that, then I think he's not doing his job right.

Well sometimes the gauge does get soaked when i'm misting using the hand mister. It doesn't really move maybe only 5% and sometimes when I come home from work the humidity can be as low as 10%. Maybe a trip to my local rep shop could be in order this weekend.

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Merlin, I didn't flame anyone, did I? Hope not. I am just preparing in case I GET flamed. Hope I didn't come across as flaming. I just wanted to make sure.
Also, to Merlin and Kirsty, I DON'T KNOW if it will be harmful to Odin as I said in the post you should check with a GOOD vet first to see if it is eating so little because he just doesn't like its food, or because it has an impaction or something like that, it makes a big difference. It is just something I observed in my own iguana that MAY prove helpful to Odin, who isn't eating enough.

Sounds like your guage is toast!

Actually try your local gardening shop, green house supply, or hardware store in the indoor houseplant section. You can get a digital thermometer/hygrometer (humidity guage) combination for considerably less then what the pet stores carry.

LOL No Anthony you were fine! I was just reacting to YOU expecting to get flamed!
And your feeding method is just fine.
Its just there are more productive and practical means of feeding.

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Thank merlin!!
I've just called my vet who is in a onsult but is going to call me back so hopefully I should get advice tonight and if needs must i'll be at the vet tomorrow or whenever he can fit me in.

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Merlin, the problem with the combination thermometers and hygrometers in my opinion is that they measure the two in one place. You will need a thermometer in the hot end under the basking lights, where the humidity would be lower probably, and one on the cool end where the humidity may be higher. The hygrometer would be somewhere in between. Having an "all in one" would measure all in just one place, instead of average humidity, and temps on each end.

Of course you could buy two and put one on each end and one in the middle, but that gets a little pricey. Thermometers here cost about $1.5 USD equivalent. The digital hygrometer/thermometer combos cost upwards of 20 - 30 bucks equivalent. But that's in Hong Kong.

A hygrometer measures air humidity and that isn't going to change in an enclosure due to a hot spot. The digital combos are about $20 here as well. The little cheap thermometers are just that,... cheap and poorly made. In this case you do get what you pay for. A guage that doesn't read accurately is like no gauge at all.

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

the dial guages innaccurate but the THERMOMETERS are more accurate than most give them credit for. I had the dial guages before but I threw them out and replaced with thermometers.

The problem with the dial thermometers, like the hygrometers is the spring inside them. If it gets the slightest bit damp the spring corrodes and sticks. It may be fine straight out of the box but over time it deteriorates and loses accuracy.
I think we may have had a misunderstanding here. When I say thermometers I am talking about the dial thermometers, not the regular glass type thermometers.
And the digital device has a remote sensor probe. You can put the probe in one spot and the read out in the other. A push of a button changes which sensor you are reading the temperature from.

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What's Life Without A Little Magic!

I have a dual dial type thermometer and hydrometer from ZooMed. This thing is at least 6 years old and I've trusted it for years. For Christmas my brother gave me one of the digital thermometer/hydrometer combos. I hung it in my cage right next to my tried and true dial and both meters were with in and have remained within 1 degree F or 1% relative humidity plus or minus of each other.

The dial type thermometer and hydrometers are known to be accurate and reliable if you use them correctly and check them regularly.

Both the analog and the digital meters need to be checked and calibrated regularly. I know the circuitry, I have even designed and built a thermostat based on the same idea, in these. In general the analog circuitry is robust and well known in these, yes these digital type meters are mostly analog electronics, but when the value of one element in there goes bad they can and will be drastically off but seem to still act normally.

All of these cheap meters ("digital" or analog) should be checked against a good and known meter. I calibrated to meters in a lab at school. When at the store look at all the meters right there and select one from the average of all the meters. Other than that calibrate to a stick type thermometer.

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Humidity is a function of many things not just surface area. Find a way to increase the temp of the water to help it evaporate.

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