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blaster 05-18-2010 01:52 PM

nano cooling
 
Any good suggestions on keeping the nano cool in the summer.I have the fan upgrade kit for the bio cube,but still looking for something else

TheKid 05-18-2010 01:54 PM

A chiller would work well, you can find some good deals on them sometimes on the board

gobytron 05-18-2010 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blaster (Post 519771)
Any good suggestions on keeping the nano cool in the summer.I have the fan upgrade kit for the bio cube,but still looking for something else

Try moving it into your basement...:lol:

OceanicCorals-Eugene- 05-26-2010 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blaster (Post 519771)
Any good suggestions on keeping the nano cool in the summer.I have the fan upgrade kit for the bio cube,but still looking for something else

sorry about the late reply, as the other guys have suggested, a chiller of some kind would probably be the best bet on cooling if you dont have a means of dealing with the evaporation. I would look into peltier based cooling systems like the iceprobe or nano customs own nano cooling system. Both are peltier based and both work very efficiently. Having owned one of the iceprobes in the past i can say that peltiers can easily keep a nano tank in the low 80s if not high 70s.

Buzz 05-26-2010 09:16 PM

I was looking at this for my biocube. Worth checking out.

http://www.marinedepot.com/CoolWorks...FICHMC-vi.html

ScubaSteve 05-26-2010 11:10 PM

I'm not sure how handy your are with tools and such but you can build one of those for yourself (with more features) for WAAAAAAAAAAY less than that. I built something very similar to that for about $30 in parts and an hour of work. I'd definitely recommend a peltier device, however, while they cool the tank they make a lot of hot air around them, which can make a hot room hotter. They are just electronic "heat pumps". Just something to think about. My peltiers (which I use to cool my tanks at home and a chemical reactor at work) can crank out a lot of heat at full power.


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