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Humidifier for a large tank?

Posted by Katie on 11/2/2009, 7:56 pm
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I built my iguana, Cricket, a new tank and am not sure what kind of humidifier I should get.

The tank is about 4' wide, 3' deep, and 5' tall.

It is made out of pine, with plexiglass doors on the front and a plastic coated chicken wire ceiling.

His water bowl is 2' by 1'. Someone I know told me that I could increase humidity by putting a fish tank water bubbler in it, but I don't think that would be near enough.

Also, the screened ceiling is the only place I can put a humidifier outside the cage, and that is also where my lights hang.

Please give me suggestions on what kind of humidifier I should use. Links would be awesome as well!

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Re: Humidifier for a large tank?

Posted by Adam on 11/2/2009, 9:29 pm, in reply to "Humidifier for a large tank?"
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The screened ceiling will cause more issues than one, remember, heat rises, and will escape through an uncovered roof. And if you notice, the steam from the warm mist hidifiers travels upwards as well. I'm currently stuck with an open air setup, what I did to prevent those issues was place a large piece of plastic, like you use to cover the floor when painting, to cover the top, back and two sides of the enclosure. I would probably suggest something a little more flame retardant in your case with the lights up there, mine hang from the ceiling, roughly 2' from the plastic. Katrina's idea about the lids is a good one, or if you have left over plywood you can lay it across the areas not covered by lights.
As far as the humidifier, I'm using a $15 Vick's vaporizer from wal-mart and it works fine. If you don't want to fill the humidifer daily, I would suggest a larger one than my own, wal-mart has a "one step up" humidifier from mine that's still only $25 and I believe it lasts 24-36 hours where mine lasts 16-24.

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Posted by colin schmidt on 11/28/2009, 1:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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okay i have pretty much the same cage set up as you, but my cage is about 5,5 tall and about 5,0 across and 5,0 wide and i did only chicken wire throughout the entire tank (meaning its all open and breathable) so i got a humidifier and hooked it up NEXT to the cage and matched some PBC pies to the vent of the humidifier and basically wrapped the tubes all throughout the top of the tank and sealed off the ends of the tubing and drilled little holes in the bottom of the tubes and the mist slowly oozes out the bottom and this will not only decrease your iguanas ability to get dehydrated but it will also calm down your iguana and sooth them give it a try and i hope for the best

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Posted by Eric on 11/2/2009, 8:57 pm, in reply to "Humidifier for a large tank?"
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Most iguana enclosures are smaller than bedrooms so even the smallest humidifiers are usually up to the task...as long as the enclosure is fairly airtight.

I'm not sure an aquarium bubbler would suffice. It might if the enclosure was really airtight but they don't move nearly as much air as humidifiers.

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Posted by Katrina on 11/2/2009, 8:02 pm, in reply to "Humidifier for a large tank?"
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I have a 5x4x3 enclosure with plexiglass doors and wire top. It has three shelves and her humidifier sits on the second shelf on a small box- it shoots the mist upwards through the wire shelf she sits on and brings humidity up to 60-80%. It's a cool mist humidifier. "Crane" is the brand.

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Posted by Katie on 11/2/2009, 9:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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Wow, that's so weird. Your tank looks almost just like mine, but mine only has two shelves, haha. You even did the water tub just like me.

That helps a lot. I had actually been looking at that humidifier at Target. Thanks so much.

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Posted by Katrina on 11/2/2009, 9:35 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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Anytime! :-)

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Posted by Katrina on 11/2/2009, 9:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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a note about the screen top as captbob said... I ended up covering about 60% of my screen top- the side away from where the hot lamps are...I used some plastic lids from big ol' storage containers, then draped a towel over it- THAT was the key in keeping in the humidity :)

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Posted by captbob on 11/2/2009, 8:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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And here is a warm mist humidifier. Got it at Target, think it's a Holmes, but it's dark in there right now.
The cage around it is to keep the Ig away from the steam. Humidity in there right now is 86%, but it varies...

PS... lose the screen top

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Captbob

Posted by Jarett on 11/18/2009, 2:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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Hey Captbob, did you make that cage out of the shelves? What did you use to cut it? And what do you use to hold it together? I want to make a cage like that.

Thanks

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Posted by Katie on 11/8/2009, 5:58 pm, in reply to "Re: Humidifier for a large tank?"
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That's really cool, I would like to do a warm humidifier but I don't have that much room to build a cage around it and I'd be afraid of him getting burned. Oh, and about the screen top, I have my UV light above the screen. That's why it's screen, so the UV can get through. I did the covering thing though, since I already had the plastic tops Katrina was talking about.

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