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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ipreventdeath" data-source="post: 11572" data-attributes="member: 462">Any time heat is added, whether naturally or unnaturally, things will dry out as the water evaporates. The higher the heat and dryer the surrounding air, the faster the moisture loss.My roses are desert animals anyway, so the dryness is natural for them, but I still keep a moisture gradient through their burrow by keeping the lower substrate damp and the upper substrate bone dry. I used this method with burrowing, desert scorpions as well. I plan on keeping my avic in a semi desert type environment, only with less ventilation for more humidity retention,  as it gets older.</blockquote>