A quick note on where I'm coming from concerning this subject: it's winter here in Massachusetts, and so the weather is cold and DRY. I've been having problems providing proper humidity levels for my beloved burm during this dry season. To date, my method of humidifying was to plop a wad of water-soaked paper towels onto the Kane heat mat in his cage. Now I'll admit, this did work, and very well too. The problem with that method was that the paper would eventually dry out, and if I wasn't around when that happened the humidity would fall right back to the dry level it started at. And so it went - rise and fall, rise and fall. It was more than frustrating for me to come home from work every day to find the cage bone dry - and he didn't like it all either.
So I moved to a solution.
I took a plastic screw-top container, about 1.5 gallon size, and drilled a 3/8" hole in the side of it very near to the bottom. Into that hole I screwed an adapter fitting that connected a length of thin plastic tubing long enough to reach his cage (about 4 feet total). I attached the end of the tubing to the metal screen/mesh in the light hood of his Vision cage. I made sure to orient the end of the tubing so that it was directly over his heat mat. The finishing touch: I affixed a plastic wheel-dial to the tubing which allows me to adjust the flowrate of the water through the tubing.
Using that dial I restricted the flow to drip at a rate that maintains the humidity in his cage at a steady 65%. This is done in exactly the same manner that I used to do, except now it's automatic and CONSTANT. As long as I keep that resovoir full it should work fine (I hope). It's been running for a few days now and I have to say - it's great. I may bump it up just a little, maybe to 70% RH. I'll have to do some research first and see what humidity is ideal (if you know or have any advice, please reply!).
Thanks for reading,
- Mark
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