cooling a terrarium

Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Wed, 30 Mar 1994 09:40:13 -0500

>>Doug, perhaps your father was referring you to Peltier devices. I
>don't recommend that you use them since they would be very
>expensive and inefficient for your application. Perhaps you could
>>try a _gentle_ blower fan to help circulate the air.

>If the circulation is gentle, though, and if
>you have a lot of moisture in the sphagnum that can evaporate,
>then the humidity will probably be high enough and the temperature
>may be kept at a reasonable level.

>>Perry

I have often considered trying to hook up an evaporative cooler for small
special setups such as Darlingtonia or highland Nepenthes. It would seem to me
that a small submergible pump and a fan operating on the same timer could be
hooked up, perhaps using a loose weave fabric as the evaporator. Has anyone
tried this? How about the growers with greenhouses - has anyone made their own
big unit instead of buying one?

Tom in Fla