I'm starting to construct a terrarium/chamber for my one new Heli (of which I hope I will get more) and other select highland plants that need cool temps and higher humidity. As I have no real money to spend on the chamber at the moment, It is being constructed in the most ghetto fashion immaginable: with cardboard box framing and clear plastic film for the top and for 'windows' on the front. Some of us have to budget!!
Here's a diagram I drew up on my computer paint program in ten minutes:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68248217@N04/6264038868/" title="Ghetto terrarium by richjam1986, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6264038868_56fc64d941.jpg" width="494" height="234" alt="Ghetto terrarium"></a>
Sorry if you can't read what I have written. It's a poor quality upload.
Basically, I plan to have a fan attatched to one end of the chamber, sucking air through the chamber with an evaporative cooling pad on the other end to cool and humidify incoming air. I'll maybe have the fan timed to turn on for half an hour out of every hour that the lights are on. I'll line the inside with plastic (or at least the bottom) to prevent any spilled watter from making the cardboard wet. I have other thoughts for the chamber not explained here, but that the gist of it.
I've already done a lot of the work on it, and will post pics soon. I've done a test run with the fan attached and that aspect of it really seems like it will work well.
I'm not totally sure how everything else will work, but it's costing basically nothing to build and it's a fun project for me anyway (I already have the materials that might otherwise cost a little money).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Cheers
Here's a diagram I drew up on my computer paint program in ten minutes:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68248217@N04/6264038868/" title="Ghetto terrarium by richjam1986, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6264038868_56fc64d941.jpg" width="494" height="234" alt="Ghetto terrarium"></a>
Sorry if you can't read what I have written. It's a poor quality upload.
Basically, I plan to have a fan attatched to one end of the chamber, sucking air through the chamber with an evaporative cooling pad on the other end to cool and humidify incoming air. I'll maybe have the fan timed to turn on for half an hour out of every hour that the lights are on. I'll line the inside with plastic (or at least the bottom) to prevent any spilled watter from making the cardboard wet. I have other thoughts for the chamber not explained here, but that the gist of it.
I've already done a lot of the work on it, and will post pics soon. I've done a test run with the fan attached and that aspect of it really seems like it will work well.
I'm not totally sure how everything else will work, but it's costing basically nothing to build and it's a fun project for me anyway (I already have the materials that might otherwise cost a little money).
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Cheers
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