Nice thing about AC is that not only do your fish receive some relief from summer's heat; you do as well :smile: !

Wondering now about making one of those water fall/evaporative coolers for on the sump with a fan.... anyone ever tried this?

Doug

Sounds like a great way to coat everything in Salt. :razz: :mrgreen:

Well upon further research, the "chiller" I bought is actually just a heat exchanger. It doesn't have any coolant in it so it can't lower the tank temp below room temperature. I tried to cancel the order but its already been shipped. I guess I'll have to see what I can do with it. Anyone have any creative ideas??(besides using it as a footrest/paperweight :razz:)

We have one room that stays pretty cool so I thought I'd try putting it in there and switch the fans in the lighting hood to something larger (they're just those little computer fans)

I guess thats what I get for trying to save money :rolleyes: :razz:

Christy :)

I saw something neat the last day that 'may' help.
I was visiting a guys place and he had sw tanks.
They were plumbed to a 100g sump in the basement.
He had a temperature controller on the system such that 1 circuit operated a heater, and the other a solenoid that open/closed a valve.
This valve was plumbed into the cold water supply line, and fed some coils in the sump, then down the drain into a waste.
I am not exactly sure on the construction or materials, but this looked like a relatively cheap 'chiller' since colder water here is free.

just a thought....

Sounds like a great idea but our water here is metered :sad:

that be a little expensive then.
oh well...

well, thinking about it again, it does sometimes take all blinkin day to make a 5g container of RO/DI water :rolleyes: . I'm sure I could do something with the waste line perhaps, thats pretty cold water.

damn talk about a waste of water!

what did yo uend up getting? do you have a link?

I don't know specifics, but how much 'free' water would be wasted?
Compare that to about $750 (just skimming aboce) and I know what I'd do if I had this problem.