So how is everyone's temp holding up?

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by rcipema

Ahhhh, the joys of having one's tanks in the basement, and not fooling around with MH.

My basement USED to be cold all the time!! The issue for me is having three tanks with halides. It really is too much, and if I felt I could amalgamate the three into two, or one for the matter, believe me I would jump on it. My choices are either to get a rediculously large tank (which due to resources I cannot do while the other three are going, so that realistically is not an option), or to get rid of some things (which I cannot seem to do either because I am too sentimental about things). I keep wondering how to get rid of my 20 because it is serving very little purpose these days, except that there's no room whatsoever in the other two tanks for that carpet. I really don't know what to do. Ultimately, one of those tanks will be coming down ... hopefully before the fall when the energy prices are supposed to skyrocket again.

Brad, I probably don't need to tell you this, but keep an eye on those temps, espescially if you have clams. I believe many things can weather an occasional spike like that, but not all will, and espescially not repeatedly. I blame my heat spikes last year (a couple times I forgot to reconnect some fans after doing some work), of course Murphy's Law said those days would be >30C outside, and the tank temps hit 30 (~90F for you antiquidated Fahrenheit folk ). Although it took more than a month, the clams I had didn't ever look right thereafter and eventually became empty shells. Keep an eye on those temps, k? Maybe add some more fans over the sump if you have to.