Really easy ultrasonic humidifier journal

[ChrisK]

Humidifier needs to be ultrasonic cool mist with a 2 or 2 1/2 inch output hole



Bring the humidifier to your local small hardware store and tell them what you're trying to do, those guys will usually get really excited to figure out how to reduce the hole to the size tubing you're using - you can also get the tubing from them to make sure all the stuff you get from them works. This is for 1/2" inside and 5/8" outside diameter tubing



Clean and silicone together any parts that need it, let cure till there's no smell



Testing out the fitting



Attach tubing



Connect tubing to outlet into the tank any way that's safe for the frogs, I'm just using a screen top here so I electrical taped the tubing so that it just aims down at the screen - just turned on you can see the mist running down the background and wood and gathering at the bottom



After 2 minutes humidity is at 100%, either manually turn it off and on when you want or connect the plug to a timer - if you use a timer make sure to get one that has a minimum ON time of a minute (lots of timers can be on a minimum of 1/2 hour and that's way too long

[denfrogs]

Looks great !

[scream-aim-fire]

what brand, how much, and where did you buy it from?

[Brian Ferriera]

have you tried it on more then one tank?
Brian

[twohoops21]

Scream- that is a Kaz personalmist humidifier...i just looked them up, some people have them on ebay for $12 (buy it now) + $10 for shipping...(new in box) might be worth looking in to for $22.

[gold3nku5h]

Does it have variable fog settings? Is that what the O I II and III things are? im looking for a low fog output for almost all day use. I might have it on 12 hours a day or something like that, because a lot of the misters say something about hours of use per day, Maybe it gets to hot, and the disc needs to cool down? Anyways i looked on ebay, does that have variable settings, i hate how you cant ever get a good explanation of products online, or in the store.

If at all possible and when you have time, and you take a picture of how much the fog fills the viv after a minute or two on that setting? Im trying to get mine to be set up to fog under a waterfall so it looks like its a vigorous fall. So i would LOVE little fog, all the time, or at least when viewing.

THanks, aaron

Well i just bought the same one on ebay, so we'll see how it goes.

[dwdragon]

I used to use a simular method for my chineese water dragon a bit more "ghetto" tho I guess you would say. Instead of pvc connectors I used a fish tank gravel cleaner. Fit pretty well. Mind you this was 8 years ago I used a Sunbeam humidifier and it only had 1 setting. The newer ones have alot more options. However, I just pulled 1 of the 2 Sunbeams out of storage that I used to use and it still works! I'm using it atm for my plants at work.

[ChrisK]

Originally Posted by twohoops21

Scream- that is a Kaz personalmist humidifier...i just looked them up, some people have them on ebay for $12 (buy it now) + $10 for shipping...(new in box) might be worth looking in to for $22.

Yeah exactly, got it for less than $30 with shipping total on ebay

[ChrisK]

Originally Posted by Brian Ferriera

have you tried it on more then one tank?
Brian

Didn't try it on any more tanks yet but others on here did with success, do a search for ultrasonic humidifier and you'll see some going to more than 1 tank with more complicated pvc piping

[ChrisK]

Originally Posted by gold3nku5h

Does it have variable fog settings? Is that what the O I II and III things are? im looking for a low fog output for almost all day use. I might have it on 12 hours a day or something like that, because a lot of the misters say something about hours of use per day, Maybe it gets to hot, and the disc needs to cool down? Anyways i looked on ebay, does that have variable settings, i hate how you cant ever get a good explanation of products online, or in the store.

If at all possible and when you have time, and you take a picture of how much the fog fills the viv after a minute or two on that setting? Im trying to get mine to be set up to fog under a waterfall so it looks like its a vigorous fall. So i would LOVE little fog, all the time, or at least when viewing.

THanks, aaron

Well i just bought the same one on ebay, so we'll see how it goes.

Yeah there's off, low and high, that pic actually is on the low setting after 2 minutes, totally fills up the tank (I keep it on for 4 minutes to get the tank really wet since I use the screen top), I don't think you can use any of these for 12 hours unless it's HUGE tank with tons of airflow and a fan lol, this model is actually really small too, about half the size of a normal one, like 9.5" long and 8.5" high, can't see that by the pics on ebay, works really well so far though