OneFishTwoFish73
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So I'm setting up a mistking for the Jackson's chameleon I hope to get in a couple weeks to a month, and I'm honestly fairly confused by the seconds timer system.
Setup:
2×2×4 all screen cage. There are currently two live plants (I may add more) and some fake vines. The cage is located in a 6'×5' room (technically a closet, but just has animals in it, no clothes lol), no windows or fans. And I have a heat lamp, UV light, plants light, and all that in the cage.
Questions:
- How long should leave it on in the morning for? I've hear some folks leave it on for 15 or so minutes? If I did this, would 7:00 (when the lights turn on) be when I would want to do it?
- how frequently and for how long should I set it for. If the humidity is too high or low from these listings, would I want to adjust the time between mistings or the duration of mistings first.
- should I only have it set to must during the day, should I do less frequent mistings overnight, or should it be kept consistent day and night?
- alright, so maybe I'm just paranoid or something having owned fish before any reptiles, but should I use a water conditioner for the water in the system? Do I need to get RO water, is store bought distilled better or worse than using tap water (I'm not sure where I can buy RO near me)? For my other reptiles, I use tap water with reptisafe in the hand-held misters and water dishes, but would that end up clogging the mistking? I know my tap water isn't super hard or soft (about 7.5 pH, and average in general hardness (I don't remember the number, but I could do a test if needed)
- I've seen recommended here and there that you give Jackson's weekly rainstorm type things in the shower. Basically I want to know if this is a good thing to do, or if I should do something else to meet the little guys needs. Would the chlorine in the tap water be too much? I know some folk don't use water conditioner, but honestly that scares me so I just need confirmation as far as how safe that is to do.
Anyways, I know I'll probably have to fiddle around with the exact timings a bit, but I just need a good general place to start, and I'll adjust it in the time before I get my Cham.
Setup:
2×2×4 all screen cage. There are currently two live plants (I may add more) and some fake vines. The cage is located in a 6'×5' room (technically a closet, but just has animals in it, no clothes lol), no windows or fans. And I have a heat lamp, UV light, plants light, and all that in the cage.
Questions:
- How long should leave it on in the morning for? I've hear some folks leave it on for 15 or so minutes? If I did this, would 7:00 (when the lights turn on) be when I would want to do it?
- how frequently and for how long should I set it for. If the humidity is too high or low from these listings, would I want to adjust the time between mistings or the duration of mistings first.
- should I only have it set to must during the day, should I do less frequent mistings overnight, or should it be kept consistent day and night?
- alright, so maybe I'm just paranoid or something having owned fish before any reptiles, but should I use a water conditioner for the water in the system? Do I need to get RO water, is store bought distilled better or worse than using tap water (I'm not sure where I can buy RO near me)? For my other reptiles, I use tap water with reptisafe in the hand-held misters and water dishes, but would that end up clogging the mistking? I know my tap water isn't super hard or soft (about 7.5 pH, and average in general hardness (I don't remember the number, but I could do a test if needed)
- I've seen recommended here and there that you give Jackson's weekly rainstorm type things in the shower. Basically I want to know if this is a good thing to do, or if I should do something else to meet the little guys needs. Would the chlorine in the tap water be too much? I know some folk don't use water conditioner, but honestly that scares me so I just need confirmation as far as how safe that is to do.
Anyways, I know I'll probably have to fiddle around with the exact timings a bit, but I just need a good general place to start, and I'll adjust it in the time before I get my Cham.