Home | Community | Message Board

NorthSpore.com BOOMR Bag!
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


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!

Mushroom-Hut Shop: 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Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information.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.
OfflineWulff
A bad, bad man.
Registered: 01/20/03
Posts: 36
Last seen: 19 years, 6 months
Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan
    #3123769 - 09/11/04 08:46 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Instead of wafting air through my aquariums with an old magazine, is it safe and efective to just use a small electric fan, holding it so it sucks air up out of the aquarium for 10-15 seconds? I don't really see how it could hurt. Just wondering if this causes more contamination problems than the wafting method.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSpudz76
Got mycelium on the brain...
Male

Registered: 02/08/04
Posts: 391
Last seen: 14 years, 16 days
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: Wulff]
    #3123815 - 09/11/04 09:02 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Probably just fine. Especially if you're using it to draw air out.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineMAGnum
veteran

Registered: 07/08/04
Posts: 2,421
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: Wulff]
    #3123843 - 09/11/04 09:10 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

I would use a filter on the intake.


--------------------
Agent 727
7

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineFirstAvailable
enthusiast
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/14/04
Posts: 728
Last seen: 9 years, 5 months
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: MAGnum]
    #3124162 - 09/11/04 10:52 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Iv'e tried that, with the fan just circulating the air already in the chamber, and it dropped my humidty by half.

If you blow the air out, it will really kill your humidity.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSpudz76
Got mycelium on the brain...
Male

Registered: 02/08/04
Posts: 391
Last seen: 14 years, 16 days
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: FirstAvailable]
    #3124228 - 09/11/04 11:03 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

I think he just meant to use it like a 'vacuum' sorta just for when it's time to fan, not constantly or even on a timer or anything.  And of course he knows to spray the walls and such (but not cakes) to replace the humidity after fanning out. :smile:

In which case, my answer stands.  Should work fine.  Let us know if it does.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineZeroArmy27
I didn't go to work for a month.

Registered: 08/31/04
Posts: 1,169
Loc: Middle of nowhere
Last seen: 6 years, 28 days
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: FirstAvailable]
    #3124235 - 09/11/04 11:03 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

If that's the case and you want to do it anyways, misting will help bring your humidity back up. Just be sure to do it right, IE not directly onto cakes/casings, but rather on walls and such.


--------------------
"a monkey would fuck you up if you tried to put it in a autoclave" - Psychoslut

"it's not like the admins and mods are a tight-knit group of hippies that spend their life together in a log cabin tie-dying shirts and stringing beads inbetween bonghits." - Wiccan_Seeker

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinehyphae
born to grow
 User Gallery

Registered: 12/13/02
Posts: 6,228
Loc: the rain forests
Last seen: 12 years, 10 months
Trusted Cultivator
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: Wulff]
    #3124333 - 09/11/04 11:24 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

I learned very quickly that a battery operated fan was much easier than manual fanning, also don't worry about humidity it will raise quickly enough on it's own although I always give perlite tubs a quick mist after each fanning anyway just out of habit and results. :wink:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineFirstAvailable
enthusiast
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/14/04
Posts: 728
Last seen: 9 years, 5 months
Re: Good idea/Bad idea? Air exchance w/ electric fan [Re: Spudz76]
    #3124367 - 09/11/04 11:34 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Spudz76 said:
I think he just meant to use it like a 'vacuum' sorta just for when it's time to fan, not constantly or even on a timer or anything.  And of course he knows to spray the walls and such (but not cakes) to replace the humidity after fanning out. :smile:

In which case, my answer stands.  Should work fine.  Let us know if it does.




True, I guess I misunderstood him.  I had my fan on for about 12 hours on/12 hours off.






Quote:

ZeroArmy27 said:
If that's the case and you want to do it anyways, misting will help bring your humidity back up. Just be sure to do it right, IE not directly onto cakes/casings, but rather on walls and such.




Misting doesn't help.  I misted the hell out of my chamber, and with the fan on, my humidity still fell by half.  But as stated above, if you just turn it on once or twice a day for a little bit, then mist afterward, it should be fine.

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

Mushroom-Hut Shop: Substrate Mix


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Fanning? LilMerlin 778 4 06/10/02 11:13 AM
by MeneerCactus
* fan drying shrooms phrozendata 6,076 10 11/03/01 05:18 AM
by aenima
* A little idea.... iiiSENiii 931 3 07/23/02 02:28 PM
by stwangetweezer
* running a constant fan on fruiting chamber.. would it work? d1giPhux 4,418 10 01/30/03 02:14 PM
by debianlinux
* Setup QUestion (FANS) alienated 876 6 10/07/02 12:02 PM
by tripndicular
* Re: Experimental Faning Idea steveO 917 7 04/13/01 02:56 PM
by footn1
* Cheap, automated monster terrarium idea with pics
( 1 2 3 all )
Mr. Pink 14,426 58 11/20/01 01:20 PM
by Snobrdr311
* OH MY GOD! I pinned PR's under bad conditions!!!!! Fd3000 2,422 16 07/23/02 05:50 AM
by Fd3000

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, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
1,122 topic views. 34 members, 167 guests and 75 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.024 seconds spending 0.01 seconds on 14 queries.