True Living 1 Liter Pump Sprayer Review.

[Crabber85]

I just got one of these True Living Pump Sprayers from Dollar General yesterday and its so easy to use you just fill it up to the max fill line with dechlorinated water and then pump the primer five times and you get a near continuous spray and the spray head does a variable adjustment so you can have a strong stream or a really fine mist.I've decided to ditch the old manual spray bottles because they never last long with me typically two months and then I need to replace the trigger head so I decided a pump sprayer would be a lot easier and would last a lot longer and so far I'm really loving it.It holds enough water that I can actually gently rehydrate the substrate with it from the top instead of having to poor water in from a gallon jug with little control over the amount of water I pour out and how fast it pours with this new pump sprayer I can fine tune the flow control so that I can rehydrate to the desired level instead of over or under hydrating.I definitely recommend this product if you looking for an easy to use way to maintain the humidity in your enclosures.

[Yuromastic]

I have one similar I use for my african bullfrogs. They do work pretty good until they get some mineral build up inside the nozzle. I then bought a Mist King system for my frogs. Think that would be too much for my crabs?

[Crabber85]

Misting systems have been used successfully with hermitcrab enclosures in the past though the major issue is flooding the substrate which is remarkably easy to do.With anything that puts a mist into the air that mist will eventually form larger water droplets which will come down as all things must and then will migrate to the bottom forming pools of standing water which will quickly go stagnant and cause excessive mold growth and bacterial colonization of the substrate, this in turn poses a grave threat to any burrowed or molting hermitcrabs.Misting systems, bubble pools, water falls or even spraying too often can lead to the substrate becoming too wet and as many of us have experienced oversaturated substrate leads to impared molts, pocket or tunnel collapses and causes the substrate to become foul very quickly.I know of a couple of people who have used DIY Rain systems on timers pretty successfully but as with anything else designed to introduce moisture into the tank careful observation has to be taken in order to keep the substrate from flooding.You can help to minimize the risk of substrate flooding by allowing enough fresh air flow into the tank that when you lift or remove the lid the air that meets you in the face doesn't smell sour or musty if the escaping air smells musty or or bitter then your trapping too much stagnant air in the enclosure and stagnant air is a sign that your pushing too much moisture into the tank and not allowing enough exchange with the dry fresh air outside the tank to take place.I have enough of a fresh air exchange going on that I don't have to worry about having stagnant air trapped in my 120 gallon tank and because fresh air is constantly circulating through the tank this helps evaporate the water in the air in the tank out at a reasonable rate without leaving the humidity levels in the tank too low.Hermitcrabs are not like arboreal tropical frogs they wont do well in a rainforst type of environment so its best to have the majority of the tank surface dry with the substrate being maintained at sandcastle consistency, if the substrate is too dry it wont pack and hold shape for burrowing purposes and if its too wet it can lead to the crabs becoming trapped underground.Soupy is a word you never want to use when describing the substrate in your hermitcrab tank and believe me I've been there way back thought I was doing a good job with the humidity then realized the sand I was using was mostly water the crabs I had back then sadly did not live long.