Water dish evaporating fast?

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My water dish seems to be evaporating super fast when I fill it up, last time I had this issue it was because water was leaking into the substrate, so I rinsed the water bowl and that stopped it, recently however, its started happening again, except the soil seems to be completely dry? Any reason this could be happening?
 

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Spiderr traversing in and over water bowl displacing/emptying bowl is possible as well.
 
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Gevo

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This always happens in one of my enclosures, and it’s because of webbing. It’s so fine you can’t see it, but it’s there. I just pull it out and rinse it again whenever it starts happening. The tiniest bit of moss or other plant fiber touching the waterline can also do the same.
 

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My water dish seems to be evaporating super fast when I fill it up, last time I had this issue it was because water was leaking into the substrate, so I rinsed the water bowl and that stopped it, recently however, its started happening again, except the soil seems to be completely dry? Any reason this could be happening?
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TheraMygale

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Its not because of heat unless you are living somewhere with dry and over 27 degrees daily.

its surrounding factors. Web wicking, the spider going in it, a micro hole…

welcome to the water bowl war.

Get us some pics of enclosure so we can ravel in the details and see whats up.
 

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Is it possible the water dish is serving its actual purpose? Perhaps something is drinking it? it's either evaporating, wicking/spilling, or being drunk :)

If your spider you dont think can finish it off, do you have feeders in there that might be? Perhaps roaches hiding in the soil for example.

For pure evaporation I keep a test tub to heck water. I live in Taiwan, mostly hot. Normally high 20s to high 30s temp, 70-99%rh most of the time. I have water dishes that are about 20ml. They evaporate in tubs with about 20% holes on sides, none on top, in 5 days. I use this as a basic standard for me to judge water in all the tubs. Not perfect, but a decent gauge for my climate. Easy to copy. I usually use old tubs, soil, web and all, to make it a little bit more reliable as far as rh/evaporation speed.
 
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