Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

Magic-Mushrooms-Shop.com
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Aquarium Pump w'o perlite
    #2814222 -

I recently started using a new rubbermaid. When I duplicated my previous setup for casings (perlite, supplemented be occasional misting) the humidity stayed consistently at well above 90%. Even after I stopped misting and started fanning regularly, the humidity stayed so high that the walls were dripping. The casing experienced severe overlay. So, I removed the perlite and went to hand misting alone. This container seems to be scarily well sealed. I would like to start using an air pump to supplement air exchange because my current job only gives me time to fan twice a day, which in my experience is not enough air exchange for multiple casings.

All the posts I find for using air pumps/air stones call for burying them in perlite or geolite. I would rather not do this because of my recent experience. Has anyone out there used an air pump without the perlite? I was thinking about just running the air lines into the container with an inline filter to keep the incoming air clean. Should I bother with an airstone/diffuser if it is not going to be submerged? Any thoughts?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Aquarium Pump w'o perlite [Re: agentjrr]
    #2814675 -

i used to use a cheap, dual outlet aquarium air pump. i had one tube on each side of the terrarium, near the top. near the bottom of the chamber, i had a small hole (comparable in size to one of the inlet holes) for expelling air.

worked very well. i'm pretty sure, a single outlet pump would work just as well.


--------------------
Real botanists laugh at HPS systems, we do however use high pressure sodium in the parking lot. - artthug

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Post deleted by Anno [Re: felix]
    #2814729 -


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Aquarium Pump w'o perlite [Re: Citric]
    #2815090 -

see the thing is, only when i wanted to initiate pinning would i turn them on.

at that point, killing the humidity was a good thing, cause i didn't want a soggy environment while the mushrooms started to form and grow/mature. perfect for when you are using a layer of perlite in the bottom for increasing the humidity, because it actually slightly dries out the rh.

if you are worried about killing your humidity, you simply add the tube too a cup of water, like agentjrr suggested but doesn't want to do.


--------------------
Real botanists laugh at HPS systems, we do however use high pressure sodium in the parking lot. - artthug

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Aquarium Pump w'o perlite [Re: felix]
    #2815974 -

I've gone ahead and tried it, and it does lower the RH% a fair amount. I'll have to keep an eye on it. Maybe I will try a cool mist.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Aquarium Pump w'o perlite [Re: Citric]
    #2816820 -

just remember that CO2 is heavier than O2. So the O2 will just flow out the top of the chamber, while the C02 stays in the bottom.

What I did on my first grow, when I was using a 12"L x 10"W x 7"D Sterilite container, was drill a hole in the side of the tub, about 1/2" about the top of the casing, then stuff it lightly with polyfill.
I ran my air&humidity hose into a hole on the opposite site of the tub. This hole was about 1.5" about the casing layer. Obviously, when the humidity and O2 would be pumped in, it would push the heavier C02 out of the polyfilled hole. The polyfill plug did a good job of keeping the humidity in.


--------------------

(and no, that's not me in the avatar)
Yahoo! Pacific Northwest Mycology Group

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Gas exchange: Aquarium Pumps and Coolmists psyphon 2,988 7 09/22/02 05:25 AM
by REPLICON_TRON
* humidity again... zoomery 820 4 02/02/03 03:46 PM
by zoomery
* Humidity through the roof! WakingUpLate 1,509 16 01/14/02 02:43 PM
by WakingUpLate
* Terrarium too humid? biglo 3,735 5 01/24/04 11:35 AM
by amyloid
* warmth/humidity notaprettygirl 621 5 09/02/03 10:51 AM
by notaprettygirl
* "elite 801" aquarium pump Becomezen 1,192 5 10/29/02 02:49 PM
by I_Fart_Blue
* Post deleted by Administrator Tremor1127 438 1 01/02/04 07:29 AM
by Hanky
* Is perlite needed if humidity @ 98% blazenaz 864 3 07/30/02 12:05 PM
by blazenaz

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
1,568 topic views. 25 members, 37 guests and 54 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.037 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 16 queries.