GarynTampa
New Member
Rango, our sub adult Ambanja, is doing great, enjoying a life of leisure, eating, drinking, becoming very socialized and also enjoying the Florida weather outside almost daily in a separate enclosure.
Inside, we keep our house at a comfortable 72 degrees and with heat bulbs, his enclosure is balanced between the upper basking levels, mid levels and the cooler, sleeping area at the bottom of the 53 inch tall enclosure.
I use a Mistking system, coming on 4 times per day for 2 minute cycles to keep the humidity close to the upper levels.
QUESTION? Just how warm SHOULD the misting water be...OR can it be TOO WARM?
My misting "holding tank" is 3 GALLON RubberMaid container and fits nicely "out of sight" inside our entertainment center.
I measured this temp with a digital thermometer and it is 75 degrees.
When Rango gets misted with this "inside" water, he immediately scurries out of the way, although he will come back adfter the cycle ends and drink from the wet leaves.
Outside, I use a Habba system and the water in that system maintains at about 95 degrees (measured in the shade, also with a digital thermometer).
He LOVES this misting and will sit under it each hour for each of the 45 second intervals.
Today, I bought a small ZooMed, adhesive backed aquarium heating pad and put it on top of the Rubbermaid container.
I did a trial run to measure the pad temperature and it measures 110-112 degrees.
I can always create a space between the heating pad and the container (air space) to decrease the overall temperature, but I suspect that over short period of time, the misting water temp wil reach the pad temperature.
Any comments on just how high the misting water temp can/should actually (and comfortably) be?
110 sounds a little HOT to me.
Gary
Tampa, FL
Inside, we keep our house at a comfortable 72 degrees and with heat bulbs, his enclosure is balanced between the upper basking levels, mid levels and the cooler, sleeping area at the bottom of the 53 inch tall enclosure.
I use a Mistking system, coming on 4 times per day for 2 minute cycles to keep the humidity close to the upper levels.
QUESTION? Just how warm SHOULD the misting water be...OR can it be TOO WARM?
My misting "holding tank" is 3 GALLON RubberMaid container and fits nicely "out of sight" inside our entertainment center.
I measured this temp with a digital thermometer and it is 75 degrees.
When Rango gets misted with this "inside" water, he immediately scurries out of the way, although he will come back adfter the cycle ends and drink from the wet leaves.
Outside, I use a Habba system and the water in that system maintains at about 95 degrees (measured in the shade, also with a digital thermometer).
He LOVES this misting and will sit under it each hour for each of the 45 second intervals.
Today, I bought a small ZooMed, adhesive backed aquarium heating pad and put it on top of the Rubbermaid container.
I did a trial run to measure the pad temperature and it measures 110-112 degrees.
I can always create a space between the heating pad and the container (air space) to decrease the overall temperature, but I suspect that over short period of time, the misting water temp wil reach the pad temperature.
Any comments on just how high the misting water temp can/should actually (and comfortably) be?
110 sounds a little HOT to me.
Gary
Tampa, FL