So spraying down the moist hide for my leopard geckos when when it was just a cool whip carton was super easy, but if you have seen my earlier thread about my new set up it's kind of a PITA to get to. I scoured the internet for neato ideas, but all either 1) raised the whole humidity of the tank or 2) were just misters, and cost more than I wanted to spend on this. Something like my solution might have been done before, but this was cheap and effective so it made me proud.
Forgive the random logo, I have a mac that apparently has no good paint program so I had to use what I could find on the internet (I am not wasting all that time messing with photoshop for this!).
The total cost to me was about $5, but that's just because I only had scraps of airline laying around so I needed to buy some more.
The idea behind it is the airpump (the big whisper, was an extra) combines both outputs to the single airstone in a mason jar (already had) and hot glued in place on both sides ($4 for the gun and sticks, it's water proof and is fast)). The water is moved around and since we all know air does not like being under pressure, the air current moves the (now humid) water up the line to wherever I want it. I'm sure this isn't a good solution for a large area, but their moist hide is only a few cubic inches (well maybe a bit more). I ran the tubing down the back of the background, through the substrate and poked a hole in the bottom of my hide. I can't tell how effective it is (had a leaking problem) but I do see some droplets condensing on the moss. This way I don't have to mess with the tank to refill, and a jar should last me a week or so. (big jar).
I will post pics of the actual setup, but you can't even tell it's in my tank so that is another perk for me.
Forgive the random logo, I have a mac that apparently has no good paint program so I had to use what I could find on the internet (I am not wasting all that time messing with photoshop for this!).
The total cost to me was about $5, but that's just because I only had scraps of airline laying around so I needed to buy some more.
The idea behind it is the airpump (the big whisper, was an extra) combines both outputs to the single airstone in a mason jar (already had) and hot glued in place on both sides ($4 for the gun and sticks, it's water proof and is fast)). The water is moved around and since we all know air does not like being under pressure, the air current moves the (now humid) water up the line to wherever I want it. I'm sure this isn't a good solution for a large area, but their moist hide is only a few cubic inches (well maybe a bit more). I ran the tubing down the back of the background, through the substrate and poked a hole in the bottom of my hide. I can't tell how effective it is (had a leaking problem) but I do see some droplets condensing on the moss. This way I don't have to mess with the tank to refill, and a jar should last me a week or so. (big jar).
I will post pics of the actual setup, but you can't even tell it's in my tank so that is another perk for me.
No way.