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I have a veiled and I am about to set a humidifier,one of those large 1.5 gallon ultrasonic ones running on a timer throughout the day,please suggest me a working schedule...
Thanks

No one here can tell you that, it’s completely dependent on your home environment which only you know. I think if you can keep the humidity in the 40-50 range on average then that would suffice for a veiled for the winter months. If it's a room humdifier and not something you are plumbing into the cage then you may want to consider running it all day - again it depends
on your home.

-roo

Your particular room and climate will be different, so you'll have to experiment. The settings may change depending on your seasons too (cold winters mean a drier house then, but summers may be warm and humid). Here is how I start to work out my schedules. Set up the humidifier so the fog gets into the cage (depending on what type of mesh you have you may want to attach some pvc pipe sections to the spout of the humidifier and run the pipe through an opening in the mesh. That way the moisture doesn't just bead up and run down the mesh) and let it run until the humidity level goes back up to the level you get right after you mist. This will tell you how long the unit needs to run to re-humidify the cage. It might be 10-15 minutes. What you want to do is provide humid and dry cycles throughout a 24 hour period. I often start out with this type of schedule...I mist the cage in the morning as usual. If you know how quickly the cage gets too dry, you can set the timer to start a cycle at about that time (2 hours later for example). You already know how long it will take the unit to re-humidify the cage, so this tells you how long the cycle should last. If you normally spray the cage 2 times a day about 8 hours apart (morning and afternoon) you could try setting the humidifier to run a cycle at the halfway point. Really, you'll have to find out what works by trial and error. Does this help?

I looked at back issues of the Chameleon E-Zine and found a very detailed article on using humidifiers for cham cages in the Sept 2005 issue. It may give you some ideas.