Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
I mist for 2 minutes at 7pm, 1am, 4 am,7 am. That’s all. I also fog him from 1am to 5 am. When temp is 67 degrees or lower.
Country wide shortage of distilled water???
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dinomom
Chameleon Enthusiast
Maybe check in with the Jackson's experts. I don't think he would actively drink at 1 AM or 4, so to my understanding the night misting is just to keep humidity up. I would think about 20-30 secs would be more than adequate but again I am not hte expert.
But what I can say -this may be the reason the ficus die, they cannot tolerate that much water
So you might be able to save some water, some plants, and still keep Eustis hale and hearty
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Thanks for the advice but I have such a hard time keeping the humidity up in the winter because here in the northeast we have our heat running that dries out the air. I have the cage enclosed in a shower curtain on 3 sides and plastic on his door at night but not covering the service door. I still have trouble keeping the humidity up.
dinomom
Chameleon Enthusiast
Got it. If a room humidifier does not do the job I could see this would be needed.
snitz427
Chameleon Enthusiast
Interesting! I noticed signs at the grocery store for distilled water at $2.50 a gallon (usually $1.15). They're still ringing up as $1.15, but I am switching to tap and will deal wtih the water stains in spring. Once spring rolls around, my local grocery store has a RO water machine where you can fill up those 5 gallon water jugs for about $1.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
I wish I knew where to get ro water that cheap. I checked out getting an ro maker but it takes so much water just to make one gallon of ro and I live in an apartment and am afraid of getting in trouble for using too much water because I dont pay for water.
MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
Do you have an aquarium store in your area? It’s my understanding that they sell RO water at a good price.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
All we have around here are pet stores that have fish, no aquarium stores. I did recently find some distilled water at Walmart and bought a few gallons just to supplement what I make.
nightanole
Chameleon Enthusiast
Check out industrial supplies. Plenty of spots that sell distilled or DI water. Stop thinking "food" and start thinking "cleaning" or "production".
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Well I started finding some distilled water here and there at Walmart to supplement my making it so I think I’ll just keep using my distiller and buy more when I can find it. Thanks everyone for your help and suggestion! I really appreciate them!
Pickle-cham
Chameleon Enthusiast
3 stage HMA filters takes most of the solubles and heavy metals from hard water, you can also get chloro-amine resin filters if your on ground water mains. without the side effects like removal of minerals from drinking RO water no need to add minerals back to the water to compensate to.
Am I the only one not having trouble getting distilled?
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
I live in Maine and still having to make my own because not much out there available.
dinomom
Chameleon Enthusiast
Here's today's news, it is not your imagination!
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Beppo
Chameleon Enthusiast
Automotive stores sell it too
MissSkittles
Chameleon Enthusiast
I just happened to glance at the label of the water jug I’m filling (is RO water making day) and found it interesting. I had bought it at Aldi’s primarily because I needed more bottles. I don’t know how all purified water is actually purified, but this one says how on the label.
CCT Reptiles
Established Member
It will be one of the best purchases u made picked one up about a week ago and have about 20 gallons of distilled water pretty much already paid for itself
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
How did you distill 20 gallons in one week! It takes me 4 hours to make one gallon!
