Humidifiers

[tbowman]

Due to winter in Ohio, I've been having a terrible time with humidity. Even though my snakes are in a small room, I struggle to get my room over 20%. Keep in mind I am doing my best to not let it effect my snakes. For the most part their humidity levels have been ok.

I'm thinking to lessen the chance of it dropping a lot while I'm at work, I should invest in a humidifier. This leads to my question.

What humidifier do you use? And what has your experience been with it?

[Cumminsman]

I live in Indiana and it is bad here too. The colder it gets the more the heater/furnace runs and eats up the humidity. I bought a humidifier and it doesn't help at all. It almost makes it worse? Not sure why. I work crazy hours (heavy machine operator) and I find myself worrying all day about my two guys. So I guess to answer your question, buy a big one and a good one! Lol


2.0 Royals

[tbowman]

I bought a sunbeam cool mist tower humidifier from Walmart. The disappointment from that purchase led to the creation of this thread.

[GoingPostal]

What are they kept in? My snakes are in pvc style cages and humidity seems to stick well around 60% in there with a large water bowl in there and uth for heating. I recently added a small humidifier and fish tank to the room to try to keep room humidity up better for my iguana.


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[tbowman]

I have a vision 632 and 3 cb70s

[Cumminsman]

I have went through a couple different brands. I just haven't spent $150 on a big one. I think that's my problem.


2.0 Royals

[michaelt]

When picking humidifier a lot comes into play.. Size of room.. If cold air returns are in the room.. I run a style that puts steam out.. The tank on it is small but raises humidity a ton in a 15' x 15' room. It's a sunbeam one from Walmart.


edit. Also makes room warmer and the space heater doesn't run as much

[alucard0822]

I'm in PA it's 15 degrees out now, even with a couple hundred gallons worth of fish tanks the humidity wouldn't get above 25% when it was really cold, there just isn't enough moisture in freezing air to get to a comfortable saturation when heated to 70 in the house, much less low 80s in the cage. I have run into problems misting with really low humidity in the past, between having to mist constantly and the substrate being perpetually wet can easily sprout mold or cause infections, and usually stinks. I have used small humidifiers in a couple rooms to get by before, had to fill it all the time to keep humidity up, even then the gallon or two sized ones would only keep one room up to about 50%, till you opened the door or ran out of water, then the humidity dropped fast.

The best solution was to install a whole house unit, a $200 forced air Honeywell unit, easy enough to put on my gas furnace and run water and drain lines, now the humidity stays 50% at 70degrees, it is much more comfortable, no static, temp feels much more stable, a humid 65 is more comfortable than a dry 70, so can keep it cooler, only downside is condensation on windows. For my vivarium instead of trying to mist enough to bring 20% up to 50-60%, I only have to bring it up from about 45%(with a large water dish, 75% of the top enclosed).

I have a reptifogger and CHE on the zoo-med hygrotherm, only have to fill the bottle once a week, it fogs for a few seconds every hour or so, keeps the temp and humidity consistent, and can be raised 10% with a couple pushes of buttons when it's shed time. it's a cool fog instead of water spray so nothing really gets wet unlike misting, works well, has been reliable, and while it probably wouldn't be needed with other cage types or in warmer weather it has been great so far over winter.

[Viol8r]

I use the warm mist one from Walmart here: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Vicks-Warm...ifier/29765912. I use this on the low setting with a room heater set to 87 degrees. I also have Styrofoam panels on the wall and window that is shared with the outside. Those are cheap and can be found at Home Depot. They help with condensation. I also cleaned the walls and window with baking powder to make sure mold does not grow. All of that was less than the $150 humidifier you mentioned. The room heater was the most expensive piece, only because I wanted all the safety features. My house stays around 72 (winter) and my snake room stays around 85-86 give or take. I get perfect sheds from all 19 bp's and my frilled lizard. I also do not use uth for my snakes.

[tbowman]

Well, perhaps I went a bit overboard yesterday and bought this

http://www.holmesproducts.com/humidi...%5E45793213330

It seems to be doing great so far.