samthechamman
New Member
Hey everyone,
I just finished my cage about a month ago! My cham is loving his new home. I posted here looking for lighting advice a while ago and received some great advice, so I figured some of you folks may have a good idea of what I should do with my drip system predicament.
The cage runs on timers: the lights, a fogger, and the drip system. All is running smoothly, except the drip system won't stay airtight for more than a day or two and then it is useless.
The drip system I made uses a water reservoir that has two hoses connected. One hose pumps in air until the pressure builds up and pumps out water into some aquarium airline tubing that I attached to the top screen on the cage. I poked holes every few centimetres in it for the water to drip out of, and when it was working it was awesome!
The pump was a fluval 30 gallon aquarium air pump, however I couldn't find a strong enough way to fit the hoses onto the reservoir without compromising air pressure. I tried gorilla glue, silicone and krazy glue but each would always leak after the first few days due to built up air pressure. Nothing adheres well to plastic.
I have attached pics of the cage and of the drip system I built to give you guys a better idea. Let me know of any suggestions you have as I would really appreciate some advice here. As you can see in one picture of the reservoir, I even had two air hoses running in to speed up how fast the water would drip out.
And yes, there is a fish in the front part of the cage, I made sure to cover the water in screening to make sure the cham never falls in or gets waste in it. I'll throw a picture up of him because he is brilliant looking
PS. I know I could probably buy a mister or something but I don't think my cham would like that as much. Also, i recently added some underwater foliage to the fish tank but these pictures were taken about a week ago and I haven't been able to take any recently.
I just finished my cage about a month ago! My cham is loving his new home. I posted here looking for lighting advice a while ago and received some great advice, so I figured some of you folks may have a good idea of what I should do with my drip system predicament.
The cage runs on timers: the lights, a fogger, and the drip system. All is running smoothly, except the drip system won't stay airtight for more than a day or two and then it is useless.
The drip system I made uses a water reservoir that has two hoses connected. One hose pumps in air until the pressure builds up and pumps out water into some aquarium airline tubing that I attached to the top screen on the cage. I poked holes every few centimetres in it for the water to drip out of, and when it was working it was awesome!
The pump was a fluval 30 gallon aquarium air pump, however I couldn't find a strong enough way to fit the hoses onto the reservoir without compromising air pressure. I tried gorilla glue, silicone and krazy glue but each would always leak after the first few days due to built up air pressure. Nothing adheres well to plastic.
I have attached pics of the cage and of the drip system I built to give you guys a better idea. Let me know of any suggestions you have as I would really appreciate some advice here. As you can see in one picture of the reservoir, I even had two air hoses running in to speed up how fast the water would drip out.
And yes, there is a fish in the front part of the cage, I made sure to cover the water in screening to make sure the cham never falls in or gets waste in it. I'll throw a picture up of him because he is brilliant looking
PS. I know I could probably buy a mister or something but I don't think my cham would like that as much. Also, i recently added some underwater foliage to the fish tank but these pictures were taken about a week ago and I haven't been able to take any recently.