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[sam]

A scotsmans alternative to a pump powered misting system, waterfall or drip wall.

This is what Tam and I have been working on for keeping my vivs nice and wet - a dripping system which can be used on my stack of vivs, in conjunction with spraying.

A fridge drawer on top of my viv stack acts as a reservoir for a quantity of treated tap water. In this is a length of air tubing for fishtank air systems.
This tube attaches to a gang valve, which is currently strapped on the side of the reservoir.

The gang valve has 5 "taps" on it, each of which will eventually be linked up to a viv with more air tubing. In the viv, small lengths of tubing are connected by open T pieces, which act as drippers.

Once switched on at the gang valve, water is syphoned out of the reservoir, down the tubing and out through the free ends of the T pieces, providing a steady trickling of water out of the system and into the viv. My plan is to run it for a few minutes in the morining and evening to replace that which is lost via evaporation(I have no drains on these vivs)
A bonus of this system is that I can alter the flow through the t pieces - a factor I am going to use to attempt and breed the firebelly toads by providing something of a rain chamber.

The only problems I have come across so far are as follows:

Keeping the in-viv part of the system level - if it isnt level, all the water pours out of one of the T pieces

Attaching the in-viv part of the system - this was easy in the firebelly viv, as I simply taped it to one of the stress bars of the fishtank. In the hahneli viv, I wedged the line into the gap between the cocofibre and the roof, however this is not ideal as it created more of a "drip wall" than faux rain. I might consider suspending it from the upper ventilation panel... but this is something il work through later.

Aesthetics - its a pretty fugly system right now, as I am still trying to iron out the above problems, however I will probably neaten it up a bit once i'm happy its having the desired effect! I might set up seperate systems for each side of my rack to reduce the number of t pieces supplied by the reservoir.


Any suggestions or comments?
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[herp_boi]

It looks good mate. Well done
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