How do you control humidity?

[Reefer Rob]

Oops hit the wrong button. With our mild winters on the coast, all you need is an exhaust fan in your tank room and your problem is solved. Mine is an inline fan that exhausts the air from directly the aquarium hood. Installed a 3 speed switch inline, low for winter and high for summer.

[Chaloupa]

I have 300g (3 tanks) in my family room and did have an HRV installed, plus the window is ALWAYS open in that room, and we do leave the fan in the range on low....to keep the air flow going....so far we have no mold issues and have had both tanks in there for a couple of years now...I go through about 10g every other day (UGH I know) as both tanks have halides and tend to get too warm. We have AC in the summer that is full blast in this room, so the fans aren't cooling by evap as much.

[Keri]

I really want an HRV but Drew thinks it will be too hard to install with no existing ductwork as we don't have a furnace, just electric heat. (He's probably right, he's pretty reasonable lol) But....an exhaust fan.... you just punk a hole in the wall and set it up, right? I like the idea of a humidex but I don't know if it will be powerful enough.... Oh choices...

[loveless]

I bought one of te fantech fr100 fans. http://www.hvacquick.com/frfnconfig.php?fm=frGot it off ebay think I paid around 110 bucks and it stays on continuously for a year now with no problems, only 19watts too which is good

[Keri]

Originally Posted by loveless

I bought one of te fantech fr100 fans. http://www.hvacquick.com/frfnconfig.php?fm=frGot it off ebay think I paid around 110 bucks and it stays on continuously for a year now with no problems, only 19watts too which is good

thanks - I've bookmarked that page for Drew to look at

[loveless]

I must warn you about the sound. I definitely wouldnt call it loud, but it does make noise. I have about 6feet of ducting on either end which makes it fairly quiet. I have the fan mounted in a room in the basement and the ducting hooked up directly to the canopy. Its almost silent at the tank but makes a slight whirring sound one would expect from a fan in the room it is mounted in. Other than that it is a seemingly good product.

[mark]

only problem with a fan only, is along with the moisture your dumping out that warm air you just paid to heat.

[banditpowdercoat]

'm in a mobile Home, which is sealed up like a pasta strainer so no issues here HAHAHA

[michika]

We're going with an HRV, and will probably install a humidex as well should the HRV not handle moisture, or is impossible to conform to our needs. We see some moisture on our main floor, however it isn't necessarily from the tank in the basement. Our house is older, from the 50s, and we don't have a bathroom fan.

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by Keri

I really want an HRV but Drew thinks it will be too hard to install with no existing ductwork as we don't have a furnace, just electric heat. (He's probably right, he's pretty reasonable lol) But....an exhaust fan.... you just punk a hole in the wall and set it up, right? I like the idea of a humidex but I don't know if it will be powerful enough.... Oh choices...

Keri just to let you in on something here. may friend has over 1000 gallons in his house. and his humidity was sitting at 85-90% all the time windows were dripping like crazy i couldn't believe how damp it was in his house. He installed a Humid ex and with in 3 days the % was down to 35 % and man what a difference, just remember this machine works and but remember never go that fast the is should have been done over a course of 2 weeks not 3 days . so its does work. the model he has is rated for 2500 SQ Ft and he has 1000 up and a 1000 down and it was pretty fast sucking out the water. now its like so dry in there but nice.

Just remember to install it in the basement and insure that you have fresh pipe around 2" vringing in fresh air. but you have no furance you are lucky then..