Who owns a repti-flo 250 pump?

Can you give us some feedback on how well it works and how to use it?

I believe I have that model (or at least I have the one that fits into the waterfall). You just put the pump in the water, make sure it doesn't run out of water, create a drip loop with the wires and plug it in.

However, the dish I was using was too small and it was making a big gloppy mess in Issa's tank, so I took it out. Maybe someday I"ll buy the waterfall part and set it up when I have space..and who knows what tank it will go in then.

Well, it was only $15 at petco, so i said what the hey and bought it (they have a great return policy too). I set it up in a big water dish, pretty easy. This is all part of my never-ending battle to raise my humidity from 50% to something, well, better. I'll let ya know how it goes, I just put it in the tank.

hey u mentioned that pump from petco
i was wondering in my petco (at burlington mall) they have this humidifier that i wanted problem is that it doesnt come w/ a pump.

soooooo i was wondering if that is the kind of pump u need for it to work
let me know

We have a few that we picked up for ~$8. Currently Smynx has one sitting in Zephyr's water dish in order to keep the water moving and humidity up. Got to be careful with active snakes though as they can easily move/bump it around and leave the thing shooting a spout of water all over your substrate.

Well i've had my pump secured in a large water dish for about 12hrs now. Humidity throughout the tank has held steady at a 10% increase, from 50% to about 60%. Ronin also seemed to actually "notice" that there was water in his tank now, as he frequents the bowl more often. All in all, this seemed like a worthwhile investment. Here's new pics of my setup for the curious:

http://photos.yahoo.com/epilover85

click on the Ronin album

I'm getting a page cannot be displayed from either one of those links.

Links fixed, should work now. Sorry bout that.

i use one with the waterfall that it is made to go inside of. it seems to work really well, you just have to make sure that the water level doesn't get too low or dry out or the motor will burn up.

links NOT fixed sorry dude

ok, now u can definitely get to the photos.

hey pic #6 looks like hes praying does ur snake believe in god?(jk)

Nice setup you got there!
Just a heads up, though....you may want to consider ditching the duct tape; it can get stuck to your bp and can be hard to remove without tearing skin. Maybe some velcro strips......you could wrap parts of the chord with the fuzzy end, and then stick a few pieces of the rough end to the glass. Wont survive an earthquake, lol, but it should hold it in place as well as the duct tape does now without the dangers of re-enacting that Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby scene.

yea, i know the dangers of the tape. i stuck it down very well, there's no way ronin's gonna be able to peel that off w/out some fingernails :)

only thing is sometimes the heat makes it loose or if u get it wet it starts loosing the stickyness

Ok, so just an update:

I've had the pump running for about a day now. By replacing my small water dish w/out pump with a large dish with the pump in it, my overall tank humidity has changed from 50% to a constant 70-75%. This is definitely a product worth the money ($15). An updated pic of my tank can be seen at http://photos.yahoo.com/epilover85. I put a background on the rear panel and black paper on the sides so that he would feel more secure.

I noticed that Kitty was more intersted in water after I put the falls in. I wounder if it is something about moving water, like the wild,that triggers and responce

70-75% is pretty high to keep it at constantly when the snake isn't in shed. Nothing is wrong with 50% during non-shed times, that's where it should be. I would try turning on the humidifier only when the snake is getting ready to shed, and not have it on constantly.

Yea I agree. I turned down the flow of the pump so that the humidity is now 55-65%. I plan to turn it up when Ronin sheds.