Anyone know how to do a DIY Misting/fogger system

[J Teezy]

misting system seems pretty simple to me as described above. Put some holes in some hose and connect the hose to the pump

[eric048]

ill start the set up sometime next week, I still need to get paid before I start

[J Teezy]

should be able to plumb the pump with well under $20. Some hose, couple fittings to make it fit on the pump and you good to go. Home Depot and Lowes sell tubing by the foot

[eric048]

yeah, I also plan on getting GS and silicone for the background/water feature, plus the little plastic pots for the plants to go into the gs

[thadmy]

Can this method be used on a vertical tank where the screen isn't horizontal but vertical

[J Teezy]

i think what you are asking is how to get the tubing inside the tank because the position of the tank don't matter a mister is a mister, you just have to figure out how you are going to attach it inside the tank. If you can't go through the top of the tank sounds like you are going to have to maybe make a hole in your screen as close to the top of the tank as possible and put the hose through there your only other option really is to drill a hole in the glass on the top to put it through that and with drilling glass come risks of cracking / breaking it

[eric048]

the exo terra tanks come with convienient little black bars in the shape of a + so im going to put a 4 way splitter and have the hoses extend from the middle. how do you cap off the hoses?

[J Teezy]

just plug the end with something. Look around at Home depot or Lowes in the pvc plumbing section, they have caps for pvc ends, just find something that will fit over your tubing. I'd probably silicone the cap onto the end of the hose

[thadmy]

Omar the reason you weren't getting the mist is that your holes weren't big enough there was too much air pressure for the pump to push the water up. I just tried and used a pin but there wasn't any water being forced up the line so I made the holes a little bigger and then used a knife I cut slits into the hose. This worked the pump was pumping the water up the hose and it was trickling out so now I have to make the holes a little smaller so that it is a mist and not a rain effect haha but it was a good first attempt.

As for caping off the end I just filled the end with a 1" of aquarium silicon I had left over from my tank that worked fine after drying for 24 hours

[eric048]

I set up the system, it works great, more like a light shower than a mist but whatever, it works... too bad the tank is still in progress.

[thadmy]

What size pump did you end up using.

[eric048]

i used the 760 gph, it trickles in places and shoots a small arc stream of water in others but it covers the whole tank with H2O

[thadmy]

Yeah I was looking at a 160 GPH pump for hydroponics, I figure its cheap and should give me enough power for what I need.

[eric048]

my tank is about 20inches tall plus the tubing around it is another 4 feet, so it's 6 feet of water to push it makes a nice drip wall and some times it will mist/spray

[thadmy]

Mine is about 4 ft of tubing maybe I will get a larger pump

[S13]

Omar the reason you weren't getting the mist is that your holes weren't big enough there was too much air pressure for the pump to push the water up. I just tried and used a pin but there wasn't any water being forced up the line so I made the holes a little bigger and then used a knife I cut slits into the hose. This worked the pump was pumping the water up the hose and it was trickling out so now I have to make the holes a little smaller so that it is a mist and not a rain effect haha but it was a good first attempt.

As for caping off the end I just filled the end with a 1" of aquarium silicon I had left over from my tank that worked fine after drying for 24 hours

Nice I might try it again this weekend then.

[eric048]

It pumps a lot of water but it still trickles a d drips

[Froggy style]

I had the opportunity to go behind the scenes in the Amphibian house at a Chicago area zoo (don't want to get anyone in trouble) and they had a cold water humidifier on a timer that mists on and off through the day and night for short time periods. They attached pvc tubes to where the mist would come out and then the pvc tube went up into a T then split to multiple tanks. They said it needs to be filled with reverse osmosis water everyday. I was going to rig this up but found a pet store going out of business and purchased the "repti-fogger." I set it up on a timer during last summer when I was traveling and I had a friend feeding for me. My tank ended up really really wet, but it worked. Either method works well.

[eric048]

the good thing about this set up though is that it doubles as a rain chamber...