Over-watered...?

[Rmac88]

So I feel like I may have over water my little B. albo. (S)he has a water dish which (s)he kept fillimg with substrate, which subsequently would leech the water into the surrounding sub. From what I read you should keep a water dish and keep it full, so today not thinking I glanced into the enclosure and saw the water dish was empty, so i pulled out my syringe and filled it through an air hole. Only now for the past couple of hours my sling has been on the side of the enclosure. I had read this could mean it's too humid so I shined my light in there and realized immediately that the water dish was empty again and that the soil around it was very damp, not dripping but certainly moist. Hopefully I'm just being a helicopter-dad and getting nervous for nothing, but I was wondering if there was anything I could/should do?

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[Meludox]

Just let the substrate dry out again. Your waterbowl is probably leaking, and if it's a bottlecap then that happens a lot. I've had to change out a lot of gatorade and water bottle caps for leaking.

 

[Enn49]

I've had Ts that put substrate in their bowls and it does draw the water out. All you can do is clean the bowl out each time and maybe not fill it so full.

 

[MassExodus]

When mine fill their dish with substrate I just leave it empty for awhile. As long as they've eaten recently, it wont hurt. I've always assumed the water/humidity was bothering them, so they change their environment to suit them. Just a theory. They could be doing it for a totally different reason.