Misting systems - Yes/No ?

Hi Everyone,

Do any of you guys using any kind of misting system?

I have to ball pythons, each in a separate cage and the the humidity level of each cage is around the 40.

I misting the cages about 3-4 times a day and lifting the humidity to about 70 before it drop down to 40 after about hour and a half.

I was thinking to buy this solo misting system by exo terra. Put a hose in each of the cages.

What do you guys think? do you have any experience with them?

Thank you

I am interested in this as well. I have my banana pastave in a terrarium and the humidity dips to about 40 when I get home from work, and spikes to around 70 when I mist the tank. I mist the tank about 3 times a day. I was thinking a misting system(once dialed in) would be able to keep things a little more consistent. Maybe with a herpstat with a humidity sensor, it would work well?

I use a tear drop shape cool mist humidifier..have it on a time.. add hose from hardware tht can be squeezed into top cap.. u may have to shave it down a little at a time to get hose to fit snug.. cld ass t connector for a cpl cages

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HF...ist+humidifier

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Can you send me a link to the timer that you use?

Thank you

Avoid solving humidity issues this way.

Find out how the humidity is getting out, and reduce it.

If you have a screen lid, aluminum foil it to keep the humidity in.

If your substrate is less absorbent, get something that can hold more humidity.

If you're using overhead lamps for heat, swap to heat tape and a thermostat.

There are better ways to handle it than using misters or foggers, at least for BPs. Heck instead of using foggers for my lizards, I just keep a nice water line for the soil by dumping the dish on it (they're on dirt) for one, the other has a fish tank in its enclosure.

Yeah if it's dropping down to 40% during the day with multiple mistings, you need to do something other than misting. Ox has good suggestions. You may also want to try keeping either a sponge or sphagnum moss in a shallow bowl of water.

What reduce the humidity is the CHE bulb that I have.

The problem is that if I don't use the CHE, the cool side temps don't go over 73.

The UTH is great for the hot side but my cool side it too cold...

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Those little chinese food soup tubs are perfect for that^

Pop a few holes in the lid, keep the moss/sponge most/damp and it will slightly increase the humidity at all times. You just need to clean it/replace it semi-regularly (when you see the mold growing, you've gone too far). A humid hide can work too, something with moist moss and a nice place to hide works well with many BPs.
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A second uth that is set to a lower temperature. Boom, all problems solved, and no bulbs to replace

Darn, could have just edited the other one... double post -_-

Um... so yeah, a second uth would be awesome. Get on it. You'll have the problems solved all around.

With reptiles my motto is: The less I have to do to keep their enclosure where it needs to be, the better. If I have to do nothing but add food every now and then and clean the water dish, the setup is perfect. For my Savannah, that's exactly where it is. For my BPs I need to swap their bedding and clean their tubs every now and then in the addition to the above, which is about the best I can hope for.

I have my BP in a 24X18x12in exo terra terrarium. I have a UTH heater on the hot side. Its on a zoomed thermostat. I tried using just the UTH heater, but my temps weren't going over like 73f(checked with a infrared heat gun). So, I added a 75W blue night time heat light. This got my warm side to 90-95(depending on if my room is on the warm or cool side). that got my warm side to a satisfactory level, but then my cold side was always low 70s. So, I got another 75W blue night light and put it in a housing with a dimmer and its barely on. This keeps my cool side in the mid 70s. I guess I understand getting away with just UTH heaters if you use a tub, but I dunno if its doable in a glass terrarium, unless im doing something completely wrong.

I use snake racks and they work great! If you have an aquarium it's going to be a lot harder to keep the humidity up and your going to have to mist a lot more than once a day! Before I got my snake racks though I had tubs and I had to play with how many holes to put in the tubs to keep humidity low or high! Some holes had to be covered with tape to keep humidity up lol But having to spray a cage more than once a day is usually a sign you need to mess with your cage or tub and get the humidity right not spray it more! :)


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I may have gone a bit overboard with mine but it works pretty well - I bought a humidifier with a 2 gallon reservoir, DIYed a spout from some plastic tubing I got from the hardware store, and set it up to mist directly into the tub. I've got a screen lid and a CHE that was drying out the interior way too fast, and simply covering the screen with foil didn't work for me, but I don't have to refill the humidifier more than once a week, and I can fine-tune the mist volume quite well.

Okay, a couple clarifying questions. How are you taking the readings for your temps? You should be checking the hot spot with a temp gun at the surface of the glass if you are heating with a UTH. Even if the substrate over top reads cooler, the snake can, and will, push it out of the way if they want more heat. What kind of substrate are you using currently?

I would personally set the T-Stat for the UTH so it reads 92 - 95 at the surface of the glass only. Then dump the blue night lights, because for whatever reason lightbulbs will ALWAYS sap moisture. Get yourself a CHE for ambients instead. You should only need to use one on a dimmer. Cover the rest of the screen top in cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil; this with reflect both heat and humidity back into the enclosure. You can also better insulate the glass to keep heat in by wrapping the whole thing in a towel or blanket.