Sorry, I missed this post.thank you veryyyy much for posting kyle! hadn't consider the vacuum.... was planning on sealing the larger bucket but airtight might be tough.
first off, awesome idea on the bucket humidifier. if it'll make my life easier on the reloads of water, im in!
can you throw up links to what I'd need for the bucket humidifiers? I am not super handy and need things explained pretty simply to me. But its not from lack of trying on my part!
The only problem i foresee is that i have two tanks on two hygrotherms. I want them to keep each tanks' humidity at set points. Can I do this with one bucket humidifier or would i need one for each tank?
again, really appreciate the input before i drilled holes anywhere i would regret.
If you go to the build thread in my sig, watch the video, and skip to about 2:50, you'll see the basic design. The basics of it really is just a pond fogger in a buoy in some sort of reservoir, with a fan to push the fog out. Got my 3-disc pond fogger + buoy on ebay for like $70, been going about two years now and I've had to replace the discs (about $5/ea) once. Not too shabby if you ask me. I think when the time comes to get a replacement fogger I'll get one of the 5-disc ones from mainlandmart that does like 1500mL/hr.
Regarding having to deal with both tanks, well... you could certainly pull it off with some creativity, lol. One of two ideas that immediately come to mind are using powered duct louvers (open when powered) to control where the fog goes. Another is that you could put two large-diameter pieces of PVC with holes in the bottom through the bucket lid, all the way to the bottom, essentially creating two "fogging chambers" within the same reservoir, but you'd need a fogger for each chamber. Both these ideas are relatively expensive, but I'm sure with some creativity other, cheaper methods could be thought of.