Big problems with hydrometers

Midnakronos

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This one's a boggling one. I cannot find a hydrometer that's working properly from what I can see.

My hydro dial broke and just was giving me completely incorrect readings so I bought two cheaper digital hydrometers. I'm pretty sure they don't work because they constantly say 90% all through to the morning and I spray the tank a lot less in evening than the morning. They also don't read anywhere near the same reading.

So next, I went to my local fish and Reptile specialist store and went to the secondhand section, due to being in an unusually bad financial situation this month. I bought a combined exoterra thermometer and hydrometer and this one constantly says the humidity in the tank is 15%. Like, I give up here. I've tried spraying the tank, it did nothing, raised it to about 15%. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong here. I'm aware that optimum humidity is 70-80% and that it shouldn't go below 50%
Am I wrong? Or are all these 3 hydrometers actually all just broken?
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This was the readings after I'd just sprayed him.
 

acpart

Geck-cessories
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In all honesty, I don't use hydrometers at all. I just mist all my cresties, gargoyles and my leachie every evening. These geckos range in age from 5 years to 16 years and are all doing well.

Aliza
 

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