Another annoying humidity question

Hi!

I have read back over posts to look for suggestions and I am using most of them but my egg humidity is still low.

I am using a Sterilite shoebox. Incubation them in reptile room, night temps no lower than 75, day temps around 78-83.

2-4 inches of vermeculite. usually one drip comes out of a handful sqeezed. All eggs mostly 3/4 covered.

I have a full water dish IN the box, as well as a damp paper towel loosely over the eggs.

I am NOT opening the lid any more than needed to check humidity (which would be twice now over a few days) but even so I am switching to a piece of glass so I wont have to open it at all.

But my humidity is still only 80%....17 of the eggs have no dents. But two of them have a few dents. Any suggestions? Is this sufficent?

Thanks guys
Marisa

Ambient room humidity...
Perhaps, If you were to put that shoebox inside of another bigger, more or less sealed "sterlite" brand box with some "wet" vermiculite (peat moss...) in it to raise the external ambient "room" humidity,
it will tend to slow down the evaporation rate of the incubator and thereby raise the ambient humidity level in that incubation box. The room wont be sucking the moisture out of the box quite so fast...Good luck with them eggs,
Hope you have a high hatch rate. imho.

Good idea!

I will try that out. It is staying at 80% but like I said, a couple have dimples in them.

bmm