Made my own automated misting system.

[HUBSonDUBS]

I made my own automated misting system today and I really like it. I have a 6' cage with dog piss pads on the bottom to absorb the water. The mist system here use a .5 gallon per hour and the only nozzle I could find at home depot is a 10 gph but i did the math and most people put there system on for 15 min where as I have it on for once a day for one minute, it still gives a mist spray just not as fine of a mist as the ones that are on for 15 min. All in all it ended up costing me $60. supposedly you dont have to fill or pump often since it only uses .15 of a gallon a day. here is the website with the instructions:
http://www.barrs.com/spray.htm

 

[Ren]

Ive tried to make these before and never quite turned out... would only work for very short periods of time before something was clogged or just quit working, also finding the nozzles is hard in my area...

 

[Jeremy l]

good luck with that setup, i would start looking at the real automatic misting systems. i feel you will soon be in the market for one ! if you try to go cheap it always comes comes back to bite you. you will get tired of pumping that res. to keep pressure built up.

 

[Tygerr]

I built exactly that same system. It works quite well. I used it every day for over a year. It's less intrusive than using a hand mister, so I found my chams were far more settled and started drinking quicker using it.
But then, as Jeremy mentioned, I eventually got sick and tired of having to pump up that reservoir all the time. Plus, by that time I was already on my third replacement pump - those plastic pressure pumps aren't really built for daily abuse...

Eventually I bought a ShurFlo pump and some misting nozzles off eBay, and converted the system to a fully automated one... Well semi-fully automated: I still have to fill the reservoir that the pump feeds from. Eventually I plan to connect the whole thing to my water mains.

You said... "supposedly you dont have to fill or pump often since it only uses .15 of a gallon a day" The problem is that those pumps are not 100% airtight, so the pressure slowly leaks out overnight. You'll probably find yourself pumping it up at least every second day, more likely daily. I found that if you don't fill the pump reservoir up completely (only about 2/3 full), you can build up more pressure in the chamber, and it stays pressurised longer.