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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 190346" data-attributes="member: 29323">Ignore the word humidity. Think husbandry, not a % figure that needs to be achieved on it's own. My blondi's & stirmis, have no thermometers or humidity meters in their enclosures & do perfectly well. If the room is warm enough for you, then the enclosure will be warm enough for them. With substrate keep it moist & I try to also use a larger than normal water dish too. I also use  sphagnum moss in the enclosure. And I do not mist other than to moisten dry leaves  for my springtails, or to moisten live plants, sphagnum moss etc. Putting enclosure humidity meters beside my home weather station which also measures indoor temperature & humidity, I have found large-ish  discrepancies between meters when it comes to humidity. Some days there is almost no difference. Under 5%. But  other days it can be  10%, or slightly more. Currently, I have  two enclosure meters sitting beside my weather station & I have 3 different readings differing by 4% with humidity & 3 degrees in temperature. None of these meters are built up to a standard. They are simply cheap gauges & as a result give a reasonable & rough idea of what they are reading. They do not give a temperature or a % of humidity to chase.  So you can stop worrying, my stirmi's gets no more care or attention than my Brachypelmas or any of my other T's & they all do fine.</blockquote>