Misting schedule

My new mist king is on it's way. So here is my situation I have Jackson's that need a lot of humidity, but I don't want to drowned my plants. So I was wondering what some of your misting schedules were. I was going to set it up for once every three hours for 45-50 seconds during the daytime hours of 9:00am to 9:00pm. I was thinking this would give the water plenty of time to evaporate without drowning everything, but would give the chams plenty of water, and keep the humidity up. What do you think will this work, or would it stress them out too much, or is it enough?

Any advice you could give me on this would be great.

Note: the top half of my enclosure is screen cage which takes care of the fresh air, while the bottom half is a glass aquarium. I know the evil aquarium, I pump fresh air into the bottom to keep it from getting stale. It helps me maintain the humidity, and my plant's grow very well. I feed my chams from a plastic bottle cut into so they rarely if ever eat from the bottom of the enclosure they stay up in the screened in area most of the time. This system has worked very successfully for me in raising veiled chameleons for the last 16 years. So I figure if it isn't broke don't fix it. But if I can't give my babies enough water with this set-up then things will have to change.

I use a similar misting schedule for my Veiled and it's worked well for me so far.

Do you have a dripper?

I've found with my jax that he takes forever to decide if he wants water. Less than a minute would never be enough time for him to drink or clear his eyes. I mist for either 5 or 10 minutes every 2-1/2 hours, but I also have a huge enclosure and a very efficient drainage system. My plants are actually doing great (and I have a black thumb).

Yes I do have a dripper, and they drink from it pretty good. And I was planning on continuing to use it, and maybe a shower once a month. Do you think this would suffice with my smaller misting times?

My enclosure is only 4 feet long, 3.5 feet high, and about 16" wide. So I fear that much water all at once would overwhelm, and drown everything. I'll need more time for evaporation. But as I said the animals are way more important than the plants, so I'll do what I got to do.

heat

Do you think I should put a submersible heater in my reservoir to keep from shocking the chams when it kicks on? (I figure about 85 degrees.) Or do you think the system will already have too much water in the lines that this would make this maneuver moot?

Thanks for any advice you could give.

brownie64 said:

Do you think I should put a submersible heater in my reservoir to keep from shocking the chams when it kicks on? (I figure about 85 degrees.) Or do you think the system will already have too much water in the lines that this would make this maneuver moot?

Thanks for any advice you could give.

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Some folks do this and note that by the time the water hits the nozzle that the temperature has only gone up a few degrees, if any at all.
The other issue with heating the water is you'll have to make sure to clean the bucket out regularly, as the warmer water gives algae and other bacteria a perfect environment to form.

Heat

xraygirl said:

Some folks do this and note that by the time the water hits the nozzle that the temperature has only gone up a few degrees, if any at all.
The other issue with heating the water is you'll have to make sure to clean the bucket out regularly, as the warmer water gives algae and other bacteria a perfect environment to form.

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Thanks for the info. I will save the money and put it towards improving their inclosure.

brownie64 said:

Thanks for the info. I will save the money and put it towards improving their inclosure.

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that's always a good deal! You'll love your mistking