New Home, Drainage Question

[k9monkey]

I am setting up a new 18 by 18 by 36 screen enclosure. I have a misting system I have built using a pond pump in a bucket of water and misting heads attached to a splitter system. My question is how do you deal with the water that drips to the bottom of the enclosure?

I was thinking of getting a 20 by 20 cookie pan or something to hold it and empty that as needed, howeve that would mean the cage would have to be lifted to drain it (big pain in the butt). So what ideas do you have for water drainage.

Thanks,
K9 Monkey

 

[krbshappy71]

I'm new to chams, but just wanted to share. I have my all screen cage (fabric/plastic screen not metal) with a foam board bottom on the inside, and then the entire cage sitting on a tote lid, inside of tote lid facing up. The underside of the tote lid has ridges, excessive water drains into those ridges and dries up quickly through the day. I don't know if this would work for you but wanted to offer a solution. Its working for me so far but I mist by hand, not with a system.

(tote lid is the top of an 18 gallon or 20 gallon rubbermaid storage tote)

 

[k9monkey]

Thank you for the suggestion. That sounds like a great plan.

 

[JohnnyD]

I screwed together a "U" shaped 2x4 base for all of my cages that lifts them up off of a table. The "U" is open in the front allowing me to slide an aluminum disposible pan underneath the bottom of the cage. Drilled holes in the bottom of the cage to catch the drips.

 

[GooglezNvincent]

You can go two ways, both of which I have set up on my cages (same size) and both work. You can either just simply drill a hole in the pvc board and put a potted plant over it to bow the board so the water will drain out and have a bucket of pan under the cage, or you can have a tray that is 20x20 and set that under the cage and take out the pvc board and again put a hole in the middle for it to drain.

The tray works better because when the misting sprays the sides of the screen and water runs down sometimes it can leak on the outside of the cage, so if you have a pan that is bigger than the base of the cage you get all the leakage!

Hope this helps!

Trevor Rizzuto