So how is everyone's temp holding up? - Page 8

zulu_principle · #71 06-08-2003, 06:29 AM

In one of my home systems I ran a 4" fan directly into the water with the lights out most of the day, great way for reducing the temp, 86 to 82.

All of the snails, came right to the top of the tank.........

Has anyone else experienced this ?

Wendell

PS As for the fishroom, tanks are fine with 5 chillers, but the fishroom was 33 degrees today..............

Dresden · #72 06-08-2003, 06:46 AM

Wendell, i had gone out and bought 3 fans yesterday andpointed them to the outside of the tank. I did notice all th snails were near the fans at the top of the tank too

zulu_principle · #73 06-08-2003, 06:47 AM

Anyone know why the snails come to the top ?

Sushiman · #74 06-08-2003, 06:51 AM

Oxygen?

Buccaneer · #75 06-08-2003, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Sushiman

Oxygen?

Coming out to fix the damn AC ???

psuedo · #76 06-08-2003, 07:20 AM

cause they want to get out of the hot water?? or maybe they want to cross a road or something??haha..
I do notice this though, my snails are always at the top of the water at night time, maybe it is a temperature difference

Aquattro · #77 06-08-2003, 06:25 PM

Looks like a cooler day here. My tank is 2 degrees (79F) colder than it normally is. Too many fans on it today :-)

bongy · #78 06-09-2003, 01:06 AM

Dawn heat wave...

I lost 4 colonies (2 yellow cap, 1 pink mill, 1 shao's coral) and endless amount of frags. Even my Xenia is not doing well.

My tank goes up to 90F yesterday. I usually keep my tank around 80F - 84F. I just bought a new fan from Canadian Tire yesterday and now the temp drops back to around 81F.

Another tips to further reduce temp is to turn off the actinic. Corals doesn't need the actinic to survive. For me, that's 220watt of tube, so it makes some different. I forgot about that until too late.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

Bongy

Chad · #79 06-09-2003, 01:19 AM

What seems very funny to me is that everyone seems so unprepared for the heat

. I have been doing aquariums for a few years now atleast and am usualy not too worried about temp now since my first summer with aquariums. I donno, I just thought most ppl would be used to this by now

Samw · #80 06-09-2003, 01:47 AM

Sorry to hear Bongy. Have you considered changing the time of day that you turn on your MH lights? Maybe have them turn on in the early morning around 4am and off by 12pm and then on again at 8pm-12:30 am. Or just go 9pm-11am (14 hours) or something like that. You can leave your PC lights on at the regular times. Would that work or would that be too disruptive to the corals?