Misting system on outdoor enclosure, advice wanted

[blue_cham]

Hi all! I am planning my outdoor enclosure for my panthers. It will only be for some day use, not permanent housing. However, the summers are ridiculously hot here (Central California). Misting will definitely help extend the use of the enclosure and I am excited to give my chams extra long mistings. Inside, I limit sessions to 2 minutes because my drainage tray can only do so much.

So! Inside, I have one nozzle and the chams avoid it quite a bit actually. For the outside enclosure I want to do multiple nozzels, but do I need to be careful about leaving them a spot to escape the spray? They could travel into the denser foliage I plant I suppose, but is this good enough? I want to run misters all along the length (5 1/2ft) but is it better if I leave a side without misters?

I plan on using drip irrigation line and misters sold for patios, and a programmable timer. These misters are more fine than my monsoon I think. Anyone who uses this type of out door misting have any additional suggestions?

 

[Goose502]

I would just cover the whole area. Just cause they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they don’t need it. It’s hot where I’m at too, I usually just leave a ton of ice cubes on the top of the enclosure to drip for about an hour, or I literally spray the whole cage with the garden hose on a soft spray for about 2-5 minutes. I’m trying to plan an outdoor enclosure too, but I’ve got bigger fish to fry right now(I need concrete/pool/overhang installed still). I was planing on using exactly what you mentioned though.

 

[blue_cham]

I would just cover the whole area. Just cause they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they don’t need it. It’s hot where I’m at too, I usually just leave a ton of ice cubes on the top of the enclosure to drip for about an hour, or I literally spray the whole cage with the garden hose on a soft spray for about 2-5 minutes. I’m trying to plan an outdoor enclosure too, but I’ve got bigger fish to fry right now(I need concrete/pool/overhang installed still). I was planing on using exactly what you mentioned though.

Thanks! Makes me feel better, wanted to make sure. I know what you mean about bigger fish. I REALLY want to start my enclosure now, I even have my plants picked out and ready to be bought... buuutt... should really take care of some other things first, stuff that society deems "more important" than cham enclosures

 

[dshuld]

Which outdoor nozzles are you planning on? Are planning to just run on the city supplied pressure or a pump? I have this one, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074RG383Y/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8, but have not tried any amount of them on city supplied pressure though.

 

[blue_cham]

City pressure, there is a faucet within 5 feet of the designated set up. The patio has a set up run off city that does well, I don't even remember when that went in though, long long while ago. We have soft water here, which helps. I am stopping by hardware store tomorrow to check what they have. Thanks for the link! I will keep that handy when comparing

 

[alan marz]

I just brought a misting nozzle and did some pluming. Misting nozzle was from Mcmaster-Carr

 

[dshuld]

Np, they have a shorter version for $22 but I wanted the 30 nozzle version lol. I don't plan on buying anymore mist king/ climist nozzles .