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Ok for a mister I was thinking of finding some sort of container for the water and using a submersible (sorry for spelling) water pump like you find in those small out side fountain/ponds. Like the small ones they sell at Lowes. The pump pumps like 150 gallons an hour even though I wont need that much it just shows that it has the power to do so. Thats just the small pump. So hook that up to some tubing and put that in the cage with about 3 sprinkler attachments along the length of the tube. So what does everyone think?
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Might be best to ask the gurus on the caging forum. I remember something over there about the fountain pumps not being able to supply enough pressure to spray but it might have been a smaller pump.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
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LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
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And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I look into my cages every day and clean up any messes. I clean all the water bowls twice a week. Adding a little water to the substrate if and when things look too dry is super easy. If the cage is kept even a little warmer than the room temperature you will be slowly evaporating water from the substrate and this keeps the humidity up inside the cage. A perfect mister would mist each and every time you needed it and provide exactly the correct amount of moisture. At different times the room temperature and humidity will be different and this will require different amounts of misting. It seems to me that setting up a mister to work so that it provides the correct amount of moisture when it is needed will be difficult. On the other hand a nice mister providing a very small amount of mist constantly in a very large planted cage looks very nice.
Jeff

>>think.
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>>Ok for a mister I was thinking of finding some sort of container for the water and using a submersible (sorry for spelling) water pump like you find in those small out side fountain/ponds. Like the small ones they sell at Lowes. The pump pumps like 150 gallons an hour even though I wont need that much it just shows that it has the power to do so. Thats just the small pump. So hook that up to some tubing and put that in the cage with about 3 sprinkler attachments along the length of the tube. So what does everyone think?
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>>1.1 Motley het butter corns
>>0.1 Snow corn
>>0.1 Okeetee corn
>>1.0 Anery mutt corn
>>0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
>>0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
>>2.1 Colombian Redtails
>>1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
>>1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
>>1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
>>0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

I have something very similar for a rain chamber for my tree frogs. It is a possible, but not with a small pump or small container of water.. my pump moves 240 gallons of water an hour.. I have the ability to circulate it within the tank.. not easily done in a snake tank though... I settled for using the hand mister for the snakes..
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I made a very effective (& inexpensive) light mister like this, (you do need to be a little handy though)

for the resevoir i used a pump garden type sprayer, you need to pump it up every couple days, but it works well.

Take the spray hose off of the tank. Buy the proper sized hosing and clamps and connect the tank to an inexpensive sprinkler solenoid valve, (available at any lowes, home depot, etc... you don't need an expensive or fancy one

connect the output of the solenoid to 1/4 inch vinyl tubing, also available at lowes, etc... At this point there are a variety of misters, sprayers, connectors, T junctions to set up any misting configuration you want.

The last thing is a sprinkler timer (rainbird, etc) and connect it to the solenoid. you can spend as much or as little as you want based on the time settings you want to be able to use.

The only problem i've had is that the solenoid itself drips, being as it's designed to be used under a lawn, not in a house. I hide mine in the tank, but you could keep it in any water proof container. That's it. the rest is completely waterproof. Had it for years. I'm not at my place right now, and I don't remember the excact hosing/pluming I used to connect all the parts that weren't meant to go together, but if you want to try it and need help, let me know. It took about 2 hrs and 50-60 $'s.

Dave