Auto water system

[morph]

Has anyone ever found edstrom valves or any other auto watering system valves available in Canada.

Thanks in advance
Scott

[Mark]

check your local farm supply store. Thats where I get mine.

[bborysow]

I designed and built a large indoor Chameleon automatic drip watering system. It maintained approx 30 enclosures, and was expandable way beyond that. I found all my supplies at an underground yard sprinkler supply store, and some at Home Depot.
It was not expensive and worked like a cat's *ss.

[Stockwell]

There are several ways to make your own inexpensive system.
I simply use aquarium tubing hooked to a valve, tapped right off the cold water line, using a humidifier tap valve. I run the tubing across the tops of my tanks that I screen.
I simply prick holes into the tubing with a big hat pin. This provides a spray..
I have the valve on a timer, and about 50 feet of unused coiled tubing which acts like a reservoir to prevent direct cold water from hitting the tanks.
The timer swithces on the valve at one minute intervals 3 times a day.
Every few months the holes clog up with mineral deposits, so I simply prick some new holes in.
Its cheap and simple.
Expensive nozzles also clog up and usually provide too much output.

[lordkovacs]

great idea roy...thanks..