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MarkoD
07-10-2012, 01:00 AM
for us in edmonton that only get a week or 2 of actual hot weather a year, if you dont have a chiller I've been using frozen water bottles and floating them in my sump to keep the water temp down.

gregzz4
07-10-2012, 01:01 AM
I've installed a computer fan over my QT, controlled by RKL
Working great

DT system has a chiller as the house hits 85+ every summer ( it's 84 inside right now )

reefgirl189
07-10-2012, 01:07 AM
This heat is how you kill a Canadian. We can handle pretty much anything else mother nature throws at us ;)

SkunkClown
07-10-2012, 01:09 AM
Ya I just posted about this right before. Yes the water bottles is a good idea! I also put a tall house fan overtop with the lid open. I should look into a computor fan. I'm also in Alberta. How do you guys in Ontario deal with this I heard its 40 degrees there!

Lance
07-10-2012, 01:19 AM
Reversing your lighting schedule and running large fans across the water surface will do much more than floating ice packs. Surprising how well the fans work.

gregzz4
07-10-2012, 01:24 AM
Reversing your lighting schedule and running large fans across the water surface will do much more than floating ice packs. Surprising how well the fans work.
+1
With the temp in my office @ 81-85, the one 120mm fan keeps the QT cool
Lots of evap, but it works just fine

canadianbudz604
07-10-2012, 03:27 AM
Got home yesterday and tank was a nice 84 degrees, in a 10g nano it's a pain in the a$$ to keep the temp Down, but I put a huge fan right beside it and so far so good. My green bay packers zoas took a hit though they are closed and look like they are melting away

MarkoD
07-10-2012, 04:08 AM
im running all LEDs. they dont put much, if any heat into the tank.

Megalodon
07-10-2012, 02:49 PM
Reversing your lighting schedule and running large fans across the water surface will do much more than floating ice packs. Surprising how well the fans work.Indeed.

Dr_Hicks
07-10-2012, 04:20 PM
I've had good luck with pointing a small fan at the top of the tank to move the heat away from the Halides, and evaporate water =)

MarkoD
07-10-2012, 04:31 PM
I've also been using cold water for top off

sully08
07-13-2012, 05:13 AM
I agree with the fan. I blow a fan across the water surface and my temp. drops 2-3 degrees, lots of evap. though.

Madreefer
07-13-2012, 06:12 AM
[QUOTE=MarkoD;729840]im running all LEDs. they dont put much, if any heat into the tank.[/QUOTE
Same here. When I had a heat problem before LEDs I would turn the ATO off and take an icecream pail of actual tank water out and freeze it. Than put the big ice cube in the sump. Rotated 2 buckets like this and it worked good for me.