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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 143360" data-attributes="member: 27677">A few phone pictures of some of my scorpion enclosures housing burrowing desert species.[ATTACH=full]34624[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]34625[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34626[/ATTACH]With these enclosures no water is ever added to the surface at all, water is added from the bottom, just enough to stop the layer of peat at the base drying out. In one of the pictures you can see that the peat in one enclosure is lighter than the others, I will add 10ml of distilled water when I feed next and that will be all for at least a month. Although, except for directly above the peat the sand would feel dry to us if I were to tip it out (chip it out more likely, it's like cement!), the moisture from the peat is working it's way up in degrees that a desert animal can detect. The depth of the burrow and then the position of the animal in the burrow allow the animal to find the perfect humidity at any one time, when a higher humidity is wanted, perhaps for moulting or brumation/hibernation/diapause the burrow is blocked by the animal to raise humidity.Although these enclosures house scorpions the principle can be used when housing any moisture sensitive desert animal.</blockquote>