Mist king timer schedules

[Vincentuanluu]

hi my orders from mist king arrived today and wondering if this is good enough misting each sessions.
The left side is for my WC Fischer which has a dual head, single head, and rain dome equipped for him.
Right side is for my 5-6months female veiled with dual head equipped only.

My schedule I was planning was
0- 7am 1min
1- 9am 3mins
2- 12am 1min
3- 2pm 2mins
4- 5 2mins
5- 8pm 2mins
6- 11pm 1min
7-2am 1min
8- 5am 1min

Would that be enough time for them to drink and keep humidity high without risk of mold?

Enclosure isn't complete yet. Few more stuff to add.

 

[Decadancin]

Not sure if you would need to mist at night. Chameleons will be sleeping and will not benefit from it as a drinking opportunity, and also, you most likely want the enclosure to dry out over night so you don't have mold issues.

 

[Extensionofgreen]

I think it's far better to have longer sessions, once or twice a day, max, than multiple, shorter sessions. That will depend on your humidity, though. I have my my schedules vary, to catch them at different times where they may be most active and interested. I will also extend the mist session lengthy, by running it for 5 mins, off for 2, on for 5 and so on, for a duration of 40 mins or so.
I currently have 4 days that run for 30 mins at a time and 3 days that only run for 7 mins, once a day and the only reason I even mist daily is to keep the epiphytes ( mounted plants ) wet enough.
It doesn't rain every day, in the wild and misting 2 close to when the lights go off is asking for a chilled/wet night environment and could result in mold and skin problems or URIs. Your humidity should be adequate with plenty of live plants and actual substrate, without multiple mistings, unless you live in a very arid place.

 

[Vincentuanluu]

I think it's far better to have longer sessions, once or twice a day, max, than multiple, shorter sessions. That will depend on your humidity, though. I have my my schedules vary, to catch them at different times where they may be most active and interested. I will also extend the mist session lengthy, by running it for 5 mins, off for 2, on for 5 and so on, for a duration of 40 mins or so.
I currently have 4 days that run for 30 mins at a time and 3 days that only run for 7 mins, once a day and the only reason I even mist daily is to keep the epiphytes ( mounted plants ) wet enough.
It doesn't rain every day, in the wild and misting 2 close to when the lights go off is asking for a chilled/wet night environment and could result in mold and skin problems or URIs. Your humidity should be adequate with plenty of live plants and actual substrate, without multiple mistings, unless you live in a very arid place.

So have it spray every 2 hours for 5 minutes? And stop mist after lights out?

 

[Vincentuanluu]

I hand misted for 3-4 minutes every 4-5 hours before I got the mist king and humidity always stays 60-70% but hits 40-45% when I stop mist at 9pm-7am

 

[Extensionofgreen]

I'd go with 10 mins, every 4 hours, stopping before lights out and employing a humidifier for the humidity. If you do it right, you can pipe the mist from an ultrasonic humidifier into the cage, placing the humidifier on a timer, and water them that way, with a mist 3-4 days a week for eye cleaning, from the regular mister. I watered my baby parsons with a humidifier set-up and they did fine, with no misting.

 

[MSMorgan]

I hand misted for 3-4 minutes every 4-5 hours before I got the mist king and humidity always stays 60-70% but hits 40-45% when I stop mist at 9pm-7am

Vince,

I currently have a veiled. I have my Mist-King set to "rain" 3 times a day for 5 min. each. The last misting is set for 4:30pm and lights go out at 7:30. The enclosure drys out by the time lights go out. My humidity peaks @ 70* -80* +/- on those 3 mistings, with a 20% drop in between. I feel that I've been very successful with Lucky given these settings, as he is thriving in his environment.

 

[Extensionofgreen]

You need to aim for 70% humidity or greater, without keeping things too wet. A humidifier and enclosing three sides with plastic is going to help you more than misting constantly and will prevent the dry nights, since humidity rises at night, not drops. Your species need more humidity than a veiled, so aim for 70% humidity, with small periods of time with humidifier off, dropping to 50%, but no lower. Run the humidifier for a few hours, than off a couple hours, on a few, off a couple and mist once a day, while the humidifier is off. Do the same at night, but no misting and you don't want the cage wet, so it may mean running the humidifier less. You'll have to tweak it on your own to get the right conditions. Sunpentown is my favored brand, for reliability.

 

[Decadancin]

You need to aim for 70% humidity or greater, without keeping things too wet. A humidifier and enclosing three sides with plastic is going to help you more than misting constantly and will prevent the dry nights, since humidity rises at night, not drops. Your species need more humidity than a veiled, so aim for 70% humidity, with small periods of time with humidifier off, dropping to 50%, but no lower. Run the humidifier for a few hours, than off a couple hours, on a few, off a couple and mist once a day, while the humidifier is off. Do the same at night, but no misting and you don't want the cage wet, so it may mean running the humidifier less. You'll have to tweak it on your own to get the right conditions. Sunpentown is my favored brand, for reliability.

Unless I read this wrong, I think there was also a veiled in a separate enclosure but with the same misting system... In that case I would still go with this recommendation due to the fact that veiled's are found in varied ranges and will generally handle a wider range of humidity. What do you think @Extensionofgreen ?

 

[Extensionofgreen]

He can run the humidifier on just the one side and though it will increase the veiled's humidity some, it will cause no problems.

 

[Vincentuanluu]

I'd go with 10 mins, every 4 hours, stopping before lights out and employing a humidifier for the humidity. If you do it right, you can pipe the mist from an ultrasonic humidifier into the cage, placing the humidifier on a timer, and water them that way, with a mist 3-4 days a week for eye cleaning, from the regular mister. I watered my baby parsons with a humidifier set-up and they did fine, with no misting.

Okay so 10mins every 4 hours so my schedule would be
Light come on at 8 but they usually wake up around 6-7am due to sun being up at 5am during summer.
0-7am 10minutes
1-11am 10minutes
2-3pm 10minutes
3-6pm 10minutes
Lights out at 8pm
With blue light on till 9pm
(Will be using quads from Todd once they are in stock.)
48" tropic quads

will this time work? I'm using a 5 gallon paint bucket and drainage is a plastic bin that holds 14.5 gallon on each side.
I will get an ultrasound next week. Forgot they existed

 

[Extensionofgreen]

It's impossibly to ok your misting or humidifier. You should mist for longer durations, less often. Once a day for 30 mins or once a day for 10 mins, but a few days a week at 30mins, then tweak the humidifier to meet your humidity needs.

 

[BryanP]

I have my mistking set to go off as follows

Lights on at 6am
1st mist at 8am - 7min 30sec
2nd mist at 12pm - 3min 30sec
3rd mist at 4pm - 3min 30sec
Lights off at 6:30pm

I live pretty close to the coast so its probably about 40% humidity anyways but the cage with all the live plants gets as low as 50% and then after misting jumps up (obviously) and then kind of levels out at 70% working its way down to 60% before the next misting cycle comes on.

I start work at 7 and my wife wont touch crickets and I let my chameleon hunt for food so I put in his food at like 6:30 and watch him hunt for a few bites and then leave.

 

[Vincentuanluu]

I have my mistking set to go off as follows

Lights on at 6am
1st mist at 8am - 7min 30sec
2nd mist at 12pm - 3min 30sec
3rd mist at 4pm - 3min 30sec
Lights off at 6:30pm

I start work at 7 and my wife wont touch crickets and I let my chameleon hunt for food so I put in his food at like 6:30 and watch him hunt for a few bites and then leave.

Oh wow I'm in exact same situation with you.m
I leave house at 7 so I wake up at 6, I leave crickets inside the cage around 630 and light goes on by itself st 8am because my girlfriend doesn't like crickets at all

I just setted my time to
8am - lights on ( they usually wake up around 6am since the sun during summer comes up at 5am )
8am - 10mins
12pm - 10mins
3pm - 8mins 30seconds
6pm - 10mins
And since I don't have ultrasound right now I'm misting overnight but only for 45-1min to keep humidity up to 60-70% overnight since it drops to 40-50% at night with no misting
8pm - lights out
10pm - 45seconds
12am - 1min
3am - 45seconds
5am - 2mins