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2.2 juvenile indigo update: they are eating 25 gram - rat pups, they measure 28" to 32" long, 225 grams average weight. No kinks, nice red.

Anyway my room is in the basement and I am still looking for ideas to purifiy the air or vent it outside. I looked at greenhouse exhaust fans that can be rigged to fit in a slidding basement window with louvers that open and close. That might do the trick if not to much cold air comes in during the winter. The other idea is a large model bathroom exhaust fan put in the ceiling to suck out the stale air but being a basement, I would have to cut a hole in the brick outside the basement window to vent the fan.

The Flair air purifier was recommended as the best air cleaning system around. I have the large Ionic breeze but it is not up to the job of large pythons and Indigo snakes and before I spend money on another one, I want to get some ideas of models and sizes and anyones recommendations for them. Room measures 12 X 12 144 sq.feet. Has a low finished 7 ft. ceiling.

Bill Lamoreaux

Bill,

I have been playing around with different ideas for a new ventilation system for my quarantine room. So far, I have decided to go with a Panasonic Whisper ventilation fan, which I will mount to an airtight box of welded HDPE and install a HEPA filter on the output side. Once the air passes into the fan and through the primary HEPA filter, it will be funneled into a BlueAir 601 air purification system, which contains a secondary HEPA filter, UV sterilizer and ionizer.

Good luck,

Jeff
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Jeff Snodgres
University of Arkansas
snodgresjeffreys@uams.edu
501.603.1947

Jeff,

That sounds like a great air purifier for sure. Using 2 filters I suppose would remedy the need to vent the air coming out of the unit to the outside. This would solve my issue of venting an exhaust unit in the basement outside. Is the air coming out after passing through the filters in a neutral odor state at that point? If so it could just go back into the room. I would prefer that, since venting the air outside is going to pull warm air out of the room a bit and cause the heater to come on more to maintain the 78 F room temp. The basement has central air and heat but I found that covering the vent and using a good space heater on a thermostat allows less air to rise into the vents and get up in the living room above.

Thanks for the suggestion, let us know how it works when you set it up.

Bill