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Fogger, Humidifier, MIster? What should I use? A bit long

rsalib Oct 01, 2003 10:15 PM

I have posted a bunch of threads about my baby burm with problems such as mites, and eating, and shedding. I am basicly shopping for something to increase the humidity during shed.

I went to the store today to look for a mister or fogger. Just anything that would increase humidity.
The fogger is that thing you put in the water of bonzai trees that makes the, well, fog.
The other thing I was looking at was a humidifier, and I'm not too sure what it will do. It connects to a fish tank type pump on one end to pump air into it. You fill it with water and then the sponge inside sends either a mist or fog, or something into the cage through this rigid tube with holes in it, and is basicly stuck to the side of the cage.

Would the fogger be too much mist in the cage? Would the second device be better? Please help.

Richard

P.S.

Off the topic, Brian Smith, Rob Carmichael, JDP (sorry, don't know your name). You guys have always helped me and I always look forward to your responses on my threads or any threads on this forum. I'm pretty new to the forum thing so I basicly only post if I need a question answered for a problem I can't figure out on my own. Don't get bored of the forum. You guys run the show. Anyway, thanks again, in advance.

Replies (2)

BrianSmith Oct 01, 2003 10:51 PM

Thanks for the compliments. They are much appreciated. I have been tiring of the forum lately what with monotonous drivvel and bogus morph stories. But I'll try to keep plugging away. Especially when put in the same catagory as Rob. That's just too darn flattering to not have a positive effect on me

The way I create my ambient humidity levels is relatively simple and easy. I just maintain whole snake rooms at specific night and day temps and high relative humidity levels with a large cool-fog humidifier. I don't have to divert humidity into individual cages so I have it easy. Rob had a really good idea some months back about routing humidity from a humidifier into a snake cage via pvc pipe. I visualize this and it really seems that it would work well and would be easy to do. If you purchased a "Reli-On" cool fog humidifier at Wal-Mart this could do the trick. I say this because there is a 2 inch top outlet where the fog comes out of the unit that would be a cinch to plug into with the right size pvc pipe. This in turn could be immediately 45 degree'd into the snake cage side. (I would not go 90 degree as you want any reliquified fog to drip BACK into the humidifier instead of into the cage) I would guess that this idea would work best with the least amount of pipe length possible.

Also, this would produce too much humidity so you will want to buy a timer device that has 15 minute increment settings. This way you could figure out what is best, like 15 minutes out of each hour around the clock. Or 15 minutes out of each hour and a half, or whatever. Wal-Mart also has digital humidity indicators for about 20 bucks. The humidifiers are 40 and the timers are about 10 bucks. All said and done this may run you 75 bucks.

Good luck.

>>I have posted a bunch of threads about my baby burm with problems such as mites, and eating, and shedding. I am basicly shopping for something to increase the humidity during shed.
>>
>>I went to the store today to look for a mister or fogger. Just anything that would increase humidity.
>>The fogger is that thing you put in the water of bonzai trees that makes the, well, fog.
>>The other thing I was looking at was a humidifier, and I'm not too sure what it will do. It connects to a fish tank type pump on one end to pump air into it. You fill it with water and then the sponge inside sends either a mist or fog, or something into the cage through this rigid tube with holes in it, and is basicly stuck to the side of the cage.
>>
>>Would the fogger be too much mist in the cage? Would the second device be better? Please help.
>>
>>Richard
>>
>>P.S.
>>
>>Off the topic, Brian Smith, Rob Carmichael, JDP (sorry, don't know your name). You guys have always helped me and I always look forward to your responses on my threads or any threads on this forum. I'm pretty new to the forum thing so I basicly only post if I need a question answered for a problem I can't figure out on my own. Don't get bored of the forum. You guys run the show. Anyway, thanks again, in advance.
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DandK Oct 02, 2003 09:04 AM

and it works great as long as the fan in the humidifier is working. The ones i got from Wal-Mart have lasted the longest. If that little fan goes out, you end up with a puddle around the humidifier.

I have 3 stacked cages and one humidifier for all of them. PVC comes out the top and splits into each cage. The pipe going into the cage is angled up so any water runs back into the main pipe. The main pipe continues down to the floor where there is a loop valve made out of 1/4 hose and it drains into a bucket. Water stays in the loop creating a seal, but when the level in the pipe rises, it will drain out the loop. A little hard to describe, but a very simple design. I run it for 30 minutes every 2 hours during the day and then twice at night. The only maintenance is filling the humidifier and emptying the drain bucket.

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