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MarkoD 07-10-2012 01:00 AM

Cooling Tank Without Chiller
 
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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lance (Post 729777)
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

Heat
 
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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lance (Post 729777)
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 =)


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