Display Paludarium Build

[VicSkimmr]

"wal-greens" special haha. It's just a general personal humidifier used for adding a bit of humidity to an extra dry room. They look similar to this:


I just removed the directional thing and rigged together some PVC pipe and some tubing and voila, instant fogger for about $30.

I've been using the same one since my first vivarium in 2006. Whenever it stops working I just scrub the parts with some distilled water and the brush it comes with to clean it. I also make sure to only used distilled water through it to avoid mineral deposits.

[natureXpert]

Very interesting Jason but I don't understand exactly how you fixed this fogger to your tank. Is it possible to show us a picture of your installation?

[VicSkimmr]

Sure! I can't promise I'll remember right away but I'll definitely take one.

[Meefloaf]

this is seriously beautiful

[VicSkimmr]

Thanks!

Ok so I didn't get a chance to take a picture of how I have it plumbed on this tank, but here it was on my very first vivarium back in 2006


It's pretty straightforward. The hose I found in the pool section of Lowes and the rest of the PVC was in the plumbing section. I had to buy the bulkhead online, as always. For this tank I used a heavier duty rubber hose (also found in Lowes), but otherwise it's pretty much identical except that I put the bulkhead at the back of the tank to avoid potential leaks since this was originally a paludarium.

[natureXpert]

Thanks Jason for the picture. Now I understand how you did it.

[VicSkimmr]

Couldn't really get a decent shot of this because he was hiding behind my background where it has separated from the glass at the top, but yay for transporting pic!

Transporting a tadpole! by jasonwithers, on Flickr

Found a fresh batch of eggs back there too!

Eggs! by jasonwithers, on Flickr

and then I found out why I haven't been finding many froglets

IMG_6315 by jasonwithers, on Flickr

So now I'm purging the tank of all snails