A Good Hygrometer

[Eighth Eye Blind]

For those of you who obsess about humidity, I wanted to recommend a company that actually seems to make good digital hygrometers at affordable prices.

We've been using consumer temp/humidity gauges made by AcuRite in the lab for about four years now. We test the hygrometers in them every six months using temp controlled salt chambers and they have, so far, been dead-on accurate at every test. I can only vouch for the five units that we have in hand but so far these are the only hygrometers we've found that hold their accuracy for more than a few months at a time.

These are the ones we have: https://www.acurite.com/collections/indoor-temperature-humidity/products/acurite-01083m-pro-indoor-temperature-and-humidity-monitor.

They are often cheaper at Amazon or other online shops. They certainly aren't replacements for archival-quality units, but they do the job nicely for things like animal enclosures at 5% of the price.

FYI: I don't have any association with this company or earn anything at all for promoting them. I just love finding good, cheap equipment that works for more than a day after unboxing.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Would like this for the temp gauge but chasing humidity # s is a bit of a fools game. Unless you drop one of these in all your enclosures you won't know the specific humidity in your spiders home. It will change with every water dish fill/overfill or any other factors in your room. Simple in my world. Does the T stay near the water dish or go far from it when filled. They let you know what they like with their behaviors in most instances.

 

[Eighth Eye Blind]

Agreed in general about worrying over humidity. The only hobby T's I fuss about are Avicularia. Those guys are like The Wicked Witch of the West. You get them too wet and they melt.

There's also some speculation that captive breeding failures with some species (e.g. - G. pulchra) are due to a missing environmental factor like a specific temp/humidity combo that nobody's figured out yet. A lot of species only get randy when their bedroom feels just right so it's a reasonable suspicion. I don't have time to breed but I can understand why some people who do are picky about humidity.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Agreed in general about worrying over humidity. The only hobby T's I fuss about are Avicularia. Those guys are like The Wicked Witch of the West. You get them too wet and they melt.

There's also some speculation that captive breeding failures with some species (e.g. - G. pulchra) are due to a missing environmental factor like a specific temp/humidity combo that nobody's figured out yet. A lot of species only get randy when their bedroom feels just right so it's a reasonable suspicion. I don't have time to breed but I can understand why some people who do are picky about humidity.

Agree with the breeding thing and wouldn't mind sticking a couple of those units in a couple my bigger enclosures just out of curiosity and probably will. It's the little ones I would want to really to see the #s. Still won't be chasing any magic humidity #s unless someone does know something about a specific # with Grammostola Pulchra. Lol.

 

[Ratmosphere]

That is a pretty cool hygrometer! I personally have no use for them, though.