How to Provide Terrestrials with Water

[Brie]

Is anyone experiencing trouble with keeping water in a water dish?? I have a terrarium with moss in it and the water sucks out of the dish and into the air in under an hour, less than that. For a while I just poured water in all the time, trying to achieve saturation point where the water would stay in the dish. The terrarium pretty much became a bog. I set up a new environment in a diffrent tank and evacuated all the flood victims into the new one.

It seems like such a silly problem, but seriously. How to give a newt a drink??

 

[Azhael]

I bet an arm there is some moss or other material in contact with the water and sucking it up by capilarization.
Make sure there is nothing touching it and you shouldn´t have any problems. Water doesn´t evaporate that fast, or at least it shouldn´t in a newt tank xD

 

[JWERNER]

Im assuming you checked for leaks?

Thats all I can think of. Even if moss is touching it still shouldnt be sucking it dry that fast and dumping it back into the tank in equal amounts of time.

And if its evaporation you have a bigger problem then a wet tank. Check the temps.

 

[Jennewt]

Get a different water dish.

 

[merk199]

Cheap tupperware with rocks inside to raise the bottom for smaller specimens.

 

[JWERNER]

Cheap tupperware with rocks inside to raise the bottom for smaller specimens.

Agreed.

If you care about the aesthetics you could smear bronze or brown silicone in it and cover it with sand. Press very hard to get the sand to set and shake off the excess. You might have to do that a few times before it covers in all the minute spaces. I would also make sure you shake it out that one last time before setting it to dry or else you might run into problems with the silicone curing and the sand adhering.