Temperature control

[mark]

Before the central air was keeping temp steady just with some muffin fans over the basement sump.

[michika]

The usual for me:
- chiller as a last resort (OMG the power consumption and extra heat in the room is brutal!)
- fans, in the canopy, one pushing air in and one pulling it out, and over the sump
- if the power goes out, frozen bottles of water or frozen bags of water I keep on hand
- keep my blinds closed
- move my lighting from 10am-6pm, to 6pm-2am, and reduce my MH use by a couple of hours.
- move my lighting higher (worked in the past pretty well)

[Chaloupa]

AC is on in the whole house...but the room that the tanks are in still heats up a bit...so have fans blowing at the sump and an Icecap fan in the top....all doors on cabinet and top open....seems to work ok.

[Lance]

AC in the house and fans on the sump. Fortunately, it doesn't get that hot here.

[crtrcrzy]

melt way to fast if your sump is in the basement i woyuld try a fan blowing across the surface water small clip on fan should do the trick only bad news is more evaporation

[Chin_Lee]

My LPS tanks lights (2x175, 1x250) are on during the day and my SPS tank lights (2x400W HQI) are on at nights. I set up that schedule last summer and I forgot to change it back for the last 10 months. On the alternating lighting schedule, my temp swing only vary by 2 degrees farenheit all year round.

[EmilyB]

It's going to hit 30 here?? Woot !!!

[Marlin65]

I like my chiller my tank is the same temp all the time no stress when the temp comes up.
Not like that is going to happen though we are going straight to fall.

[Doug]

The solution,
move to a Manitoba basement.

My central air keeps the house temp. decent. With my modular/mobile house, the tank would over heat without it. I do run a decent fan over the open top design also, when the halide is on.

[Oscar]

This will be my first summer with a tank. We commonly get a stretch of 40C temperatures so this issue is a real concern. Our only AC is an old beater machine that I insert into one of the windows when the temp gets unbearable. It may get installed a lot earlier than it has in the past.

Currently my tank has a Ice Caps variable speed cooling fan that adjusts it's speed based on the air temperatue above the water surface. The lights are on legs which in turn rest on the lip of the tank. I like the idea of raising the lights for more air circulation, that would also assist in tank maintenance.