Humidity in a fishroom

[fishandfire]

Just bought a thermohygrometer for the fish room. Anybody else keep track of the humidity of your fish room? If so, what does it run. I have a dehumidifier running, but don't know if I have it set to take too much or too little out of the room.

[slimbolen99]

If mine is below 50% in the summer, I'm happy with it.
During the winter, it can get as low as 30%.

I also have a ventilation type deal (basically a hole in the wall with a mini-box fan) that keeps the air moving throughout the basement which helps.

The humidity upstairs in the rest of the house in the winter, if I weren't running a humidifier, can get as low as 10%!!! Not good for hardwood floors, thus the use of a humidifier.

[kcmatamata]

I live in the Southeast, so it's always humid.

I recently installed a Santa Fe dehumidifier and I have it set to keep my basement fishroom below 50% (around 47% most days).

The difference between how the room feels with this unit vs the dehumidifiers(big box store) I have run in the past even at the same readings is night and day.

Even my wife has made the comment that it feels completely different.

Keith

[leisure_man]

I run a Santa Fe Rx dehumidifier and it keeps the RH to around 30 to 40% year round in the fishroom. I also have a HRV that runs 24/7 and I set it to go full vent if the RH is at or above 55% which it never did.