Misters

[crocsmom]

Hi,
Anyone else use a mister for their tort? In So Cal it is 100+ and my Croc loves when I have the mister on for him. How do you help cool down your tort or do you even have to?

 

[Millerlite]

Misters, shade and burrows. Those three things can be life savers, there's a thread about Cdt and over heating, it's on here somewhere I'm sure someone will post it

 

[crocsmom]

Thanks! I hope someone does post it....I'd like to read it.
There is plenty of shade for him...even in the cool grass. But sometimes I think he needs that little extra cooling....and the mister work great.

 

[Yvonne G]

I split Neal's article about heat stroke and made two of them. One is now a "sticky", or "important thread" at the top of the Health section, and is closed to discussion, and the other is open for discussion. Here's the closed one:

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/forum-127.html

 

[thatrebecca]

Hi,
Anyone else use a mister for their tort? In So Cal it is 100+ and my Croc loves when I have the mister on for him. How do you help cool down your tort or do you even have to?

I'd love to see pix of your misters/enclosure. We're thinking of adding some to our DT enclosure. Right now we use the mister function on the hose and do it by hand on hot afternoons.

And I'm wondering -- is there such a thing as a mister that goes on automatically at a certain temp? So if I'm at work and it starts broiling, it'd go on at 95 degrees or something.

 

[ascott]

http://www.improvementscatalog.com/...d=&mr:match=&mr:filter=49963634092&redirect=y

There are very basic timers all the way up to very expensive ones, just depends on your needs and desires....

I will use the misters here if the temps are crazy...I have in the past used the timers for maintaining water level in their water hole/pallet....but not for the misters.....

 

[crocsmom]

All I use is a 'Cobra Mister'. I think I got it at Home Depot many years ago. Putting it on a timer is a good idea...if you are unable to be home in the heat of the day....but I've never heard of one that comes on at a specific temperature. I'm at home so I turn it on from like noon - 3 or 4pm....when it's over 90ish. My tort has run of the back year...he's not in an enclosure. I posted pics on here the other day.
Oh...I've also used a hand held nozzle...on the end of a hose....the kind you water your garden with. On the dial it has a mist function. You can hang it over something....that works great too.