rodent room

[reptilesalonica]

I am making a rodent room and i will need your help with the air flow exchange.
Below is the drawing of the space that will be used.

I will put a fan in the one upper end of the room.
I should put it to blow the air from the room, or to bring fresh air from outside?
Do i have to use another air pipe in the room?

For ex. i should have one fan to blow the air from the room outside and another one to bring fresh air from outside?

Have you done something like that before, and what is the outcome?

Thanks in advance.

[Piers]

I'd have the air taken out. You should only need one fan with a passive vent on the other side.
Piers

[reptilesalonica]

I was thinking, if there is only one fan taking the smelly air outside, how then the room can have fresh air?:(

[Michael Gibson]

Hi,

I have a rodent room in my basement. I have to agree with Piers, you want the vent to draw the air out of the rodent room (I have a fan in a window that draws the air outside). Your room will draw air from the rest of the house to replace the vented air since very few homes are really air tight. If you draw fresh air in from outside... where is the foul air going to go when you open the door?

Having said that, though, what is outside the door of your rodent room? It looks, from your drawing, that you are planning to vent the air into the space immediately outside the room very near the door to enter the room. This won't do much for your air quality since you'll vent it out and then reintroduce it every time you open the door. I'd put the vent on the opposite wall if you can. A larger drawing that shows the rooms location would be helpful.

I'm just curious, since your snake collection doesn't appear to be very large, why you are even building a rodent room? Is it difficult to get rodents or are you planning on breeding snakes? Keeping a large number of rodents can be a lot of unsatisfying work for a small collection if you have other options.

For what it's worth...

Michael

[reptilesalonica]

Unfortunately, the only place that i can put the fan, is that. All the other are walls from the building, and it is basement, i don't have access from outside.

You are right, the room is not sealed, therefore whenever i open the door, fresh air comes inside. The door won't open very often. Only once every night, for watering and feeding of the rodents.

I keep more than 30 reptiles, my sig is outdated ;)
I am breeding rodents 3 years now, and now i will transfer them to another place, different building.

Is there a filter that i can put on the end of the pipe (outside of the building), to eliminate oddor?