Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Anyone use the air tube method of keeping humidity up in their enclosure? Thanks

I was just thinking about that the other day while I was at my lab. I was fishing for dead lamprey the other day in our embryology lab thinking about how it could work if converted over. it would be similar to keeping an ultrasonic humidifier running, just not as powerful.

-b.jason

lamprey huh? those are some funky little fish, eels, whatever ya wanna call em.

i tried it, and honestly i wouldnt recommend it. i even fiddled with the contraption a bit to get it to work better, but the only thing it really did was help mold grow.

what i did was i had a 2 liter bottle, cut 3 small holes in the cap. put plastic tubing into each of the holes. one tube ran from an air pump to an air stone in the 2 liter, which was filled with water. so that builds up the pressure inside the 2 liter, then the other 2 tubes ran out and into the tanks. really didnt help the humidity as much as i hoped it would. it's not an expensive setup though, so if you feel like experimenting, go at it. if you come up with a good way to get it to work, id be interested.
-----
-Mike Martin
North Carolina

According to my the professor I manage the group for, lampreys are the most primative vertebrate in exist. They are really freaky looking in person. They definitely will scare you some when you first see them in person.

-b.jason

yeah, i've read a bit about them in my aquatic wild life classes. we have brook lamprey in iowa and that's pretty much what my professor told me was that they were extremely primitive.

What brook or rivers are you finding them in? Most have actually come up through the canals that were dug for the great lakes and have swam into new areas, like lake michigan and its off shooting rivers, because they have no natural predators in those areas. They are designed like salmon, salt water lives, freshwater spawning. But at this point they are pretty much becoming a parasite we can't get rid of in the great lakes and the accompanying rivers/brooks/streams as nothing preys on them outside of the oceans. Although, turtles might once they are in an area that has a large turtle population. Hmmm. I'll have to look that one up.

Actually, the population in the Iowa/minnesota area is an inland population that lives in lakes and streams their entire lives. We talked about and dissected the saltwater ones in my comparative chordate anatomy class. They're definately primitive vertebrates. They're crazy animals, and if those jaws weren't so creepy, they'd be awesome!!!

The origin of most lampreys in fresh water rivers that shoot of the great lakes stemed from populations that migrated in from the sea. Now, because they have no natural predators once in the great lakes and off shooting riverways, they are found living their entire lives in freshwater. I wasn't saying that they swim in land every year and go back again. In the states, there isn't much of a species that lives solely in the rivers and streams unless they originated from the migration population that swam up after the canals were dug into the great lakes.

today, kids, the word of the day is anadromous. i tried to check it up in the internet dictionary but it is evidently down. im pretty sure thats the term for fish that migrate from salt to freshwater. or maybe i have that mixed up with catadromous.

BAH! look it up on your own.

hehe
-----
-Mike Martin
North Carolina

anadromous mike! that one I know.