Lucky Reptile Fogger

After finding my constant misting of Noodle’s vivarium had took it’s toll on one corner of the viv, and swolen the chipboard, (somehow had gotten past the coating) I decided to get Noodles out of it, dry it all out, seal it up and start again.

I bought a Lucky Reptile Fogger. I bored a hole in the back of the Viv and hammered in a 45 degree hose connector. I cut the hose down so it’s about 1ft long and connected it from the connector to the fogger.

I’ve set a timer to switch the fogger on for 15 minutes every hour. I give the enclosure a light misting every morning. Noodle’s humidity stays 75-80%. The dampness has gone and he seems happier now.

I took his Waterfall out as it was a bugger to keep clean. I think I’ll fit it when he has a bigger Vivarium but I’ll make a quick release kit for it so that I can clean it out every couple of days.

Noodles is growing well, I feed him Locust every other day now but he has mealies every day, he wasn’t really touching locust before and they would roam around for days. Now he runs down and eats them and looks so happy (although he always has a happy looking face, unless you accidentally turn his UV on at midnight, then he looks startled and looks like he wants to kill you with a big stick!

He’s such an awesome little Chinese Water Dragon!!

He hasnt been out much in the past week because we are moving house so there is lots of boxes for him to get lost in. I normally let him out, have a little run around, play a game he likes to call “catch me if you can” then he climbs up onto my shoulder and stares me out for a bit, before skipping back into his Viv. He’s well trained like that (I can’t take credit, he learnt the little routine all by himself)

On a less impressive Lucky Reptile note, his ThermoControl Pro II died the other day, it kept switching the timer devices off and on every 5 minutes. I took them off and put them on a manual timer for a few hours to give me chance to do a bit of Thermostat swapping. To my horror I had discovered that it had Failed ON rather than OFF (which apparently the MicroClimate kit does… Fails OFF, so you get cold Reptiles not baked reptiles). Luckily the heat bulb which is in isn’t too big so it only got about 2c hotter than he should have. I promptly swapped it for a Habistat one which I had spare.

I need to send it back and get a replacement. Sarah’s one for Dave the Beardie is still going on strong!

Tags: fogger, humidity, lucky reptile, water dragon