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Doc Seta
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Re: need help heating my tank [Re: jbeeebz]
#19294612 - 12/18/13 06:36 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Live & Learn thats what this hobby is all about bud
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1down5up
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Re: need help heating my tank [Re: Doc Seta]
#19294979 - 12/18/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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good luck bro
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Re: need help heating my tank [Re: 1down5up]
#19294987 - 12/18/13 08:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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bodhisatta 
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Re: need help heating my tank [Re: RogerRabbit]
#19295079 - 12/18/13 08:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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jbeeebz said: Thanks for the info. I was only judging my fae off of the fact that I can see the fog pouring out when it's running but I can't be sure it is enough. I will most likely need more holes. I have plenty of diamond hole saws so it's not a problem to make more. My room is constantly 71-74 degrees so I might just leave it alone. So the difference in fruiting times in only a few days when the temp is not 80? If that's the case, I have no problem waiting a little longer. Thanks everyone
Run a space heater in the room if you want to keep it at 75F.
You never want fog exiting or entering your terrarium. You'll soon learn that if the substrate isn't evaporating moisture, it won't pin. This is why we mist; you let the substrate evaporate and dry out a bit, and then you mist to bring it back up. Steady state moisture content, especially if too wet will lead to poor or no results. RR
if you can get passive FAE (like ~5 or more complete air exchanges per hour in that aquarium plus maintaining 95%+ RH then go for it. but if you want something designed to do all that for you without a lot of work and cost then make a SGFC
Fruiting Chamber A SGFC has 1/4" holes spaces 2 inches apart in a grid patten on all six sides. 4-6 inches of moist perlite. No attachments made to it with any extra things like humidifiers. Optimally the SGFC should be in the middle of a room. No fans should be run in the room with the SGFC, but a cracked window is OK. A humidifier in your house can help to raise the ambient RH but don't put it near your SGFC put it in the other corner of the room if you do decide to run a humidifier at all. The SGFC IMO should have at least 6-12 inches of room from any wall on all 6 sides. This includes finding some sort of raisers to elevate the SGFC off of the surface it's on.
Misting and Fanning. This is a source of much grief and 100's of posts a week here. Misting and fanning is not at all complicated as it needs to be. In general you'll mist your cakes until they glisten(yes they can even with the verm on them) and then fan right after the mist. You can mist your cakes directly and you should. When you notice the cake is no longer glistening you can mist it again and then fan. This occurs on average of 3-5 times a day. Don't worry about sleeping or being gone 12 hours. Just do it when you're around and don't forget about it is all. Fanning is not FAE it's only purpose is to relive the high RH air so that the cakes can get a kickstart on evaporation.
FAE This is a phenomenon (Fresh air exchange) in a properly built SGFC this is constantly happening. The perlite is naturally cooler than the surrounding air this moves molecules closer to eachother as the lose kinetic energy. This creates low pressure which pulls air up through the bottom holes. As the air moves through the perlite it picks up humidity and keeps the chamber at or above 90%RH. This occurs naturally without the fanning and is why we like to have no fans in the room and is also why fanning after misting is not a replacement for FAE.
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Notahacker420 said: Fanning is not a replacement for constant FAE.
You would need to fan several times per hour.

basically you need high RH and FAE the FAE is to help the mushrooms breathe and also slowly evaporate the mist. With a high RH environment you need FAE to evaporate the misting. The fanning kickstarts that. Mushrooms also breathe so limit stale air by providing FAE. If you can make a tub that does all that 
most people try to and spend more money to get less optimal results in one or more of those categories. Some people have come up with things that work, but none of them ever lasted the test of time for a reason,
Edited by Trusted cuItivator (12/18/13 08:34 PM)
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