more humidity

[Timothy]

I'm redoing my encloser. I'm almost done. I used a dripper for a long time and then recently made the encloser bigger. now it is five feet from top to bottom. dripper had a longer way to fall and was becoming more messy. I've seen people use fountains so I thought I would try it. Then I had the bright idea to make the hole bottom the fountain basin. I also thought this would increase the humidity (having more water).

So I filled the bottom up with these hydro balls and placed a pump in there and the water ran down a large piece of bark.

when my chem took his first phooh like this. I relized my stupidity, he is phoohing in his drinking water. so I took it out right away. I never liked fountains anyway

so I reinstalled my dripper and added a longer perfarated hose that I strapped to the top, so it rains so to say and found a larger basin to catch the water (not as messy now) "dah"

my question is, I have a medium size heat pad that is not being used. I'm thinking of installing it out side on the side by the basin in a attempt to create more humidity. Heat+water=humidity, right?

dose this sound like it might work?

 

[stkennedy]

Water conversion to gas = humidity. The heat pad will probably not help with the conversion. It will just be an electrical hazard since it will be near a water source.

 

[Timothy]

I see what you are saying, but would'nt heat speed up this conversion (evaporation). the heat pad is out side the encloser. Oh I should say the bottom 2 feet is glass, so being outside it would not come in contact with water. I was just thinking that a littile more heat at the bottom would help with evaperation. I don't know I'm at wits end on how to raise humidity.

I have plans to build a humidifiying system with a humidyfier and pipeing but just not in the budget right now. just trying to do something for now.

 

[stkennedy]

Frequent misting is your best bet and then save up for an automatic misting system. I would be wary of using a heat pad since they are not made for that application and are really nothing more than a wire being heated up by electricity. Even outside the enclosure a leak can possibly happen. Plus the pad will probably not be efficient enough to convert a large enough volume of water to gas to bring up the humidity by much. The easier way to convert water without heat is using a sprayer that has a fine mist. The smaller the water droplets, the quicker they convert to gas. I had looked into building my own system with a fountain pump but in the end decided it would cost me almost as much as the Mist King system and would be less efficient.

 

[Timothy]

you have convenced me, no heat pad. just can't lapse on the misting. Thanks for the input.