more humidity

Timothy

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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