Hot enough for ya???

[Aquattro]

Ya, the chiller is pumping away, tank stays at 79 all day. Which is good, because my condo probably hits 90 by the end of the day! I need a condo chiller for us!

[Beverly]

Glad to report our AC is keeping everyone cool

We put our indoor thermometer/humidity reader out on our balcony on hot days. Yesterday, it hit 41 C in the mid-day sun. Was up at 4 a.m. this morning and it was 20 C out there. By 7:30 a.m. it had already climbed to 22 C in the shade. High expected to be 33 C here today, but on our balcony it's always at least a degree higher. Heat wave forecast goes into next week, but sure hope it cools down some before then. Can't stand AC on at night with no fresh air

[nanoreefer]

my tanks are geting hit hard sence there all nano/pico, yesterday my 2.5 peaked at 90! and my xenia has melted but worest is i havent seen my firefish today , its at 84-87 with the lights on and my 1g is at 88 but the cleaner shrimp and coral seem to be ok, i wasent realy ready for the heat sence last year my room wasent that hot but the last two days were bad iam going to have to find some fans and hope they help or that this heat gos away soon or iam not sure what will happen

[adidas]

I better check the temp on my tank!

[Rikko]

*walks over to side of tank*
*looks at thermometer*
86.7
*buried head in sand*

I usually just open up my stand on a hot day and blow a really powerful room fan into the stand - it's usually able to drop it by a good 4 degrees on a scorcher.

[Samw]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Glad to report our AC is keeping everyone cool

We put our indoor thermometer/humidity reader out on our balcony on hot days. Yesterday, it hit 41 C in the mid-day sun. Was up at 4 a.m. this morning and it was 20 C out there. By 7:30 a.m. it had already climbed to 22 C in the shade. High expected to be 33 C here today, but on our balcony it's always at least a degree higher. Heat wave forecast goes into next week, but sure hope it cools down some before then. Can't stand AC on at night with no fresh air

Bev, thanks for using Celsius. That's the only unit that I understand.

[Mike Olson]

My chiller has been awesome.....today I noticed it wasnt keeping up though....here the filter cloth on the intake was very dirty. All is well again! Before I had the chiller, I was putting frozen 2l bottles of water in the sump before work....did the job.

[mr_alberta]

My tank runs at 85*F these last few days. No lights, chiller on for 12hrs/day

Unfortunatly for me, the drop in chiller pumps all the heat into my apartment. Ambient was about 30*C. Night is about 25*C.

[EmilyB]

We seem to be pretty lucky because the tanks are downstairs in a walkout basement. However, it's been stinkin' hot and I have actually just been monitoring the temp by watching the clams and the fish. If they are happy, I am.

I figured I had better pop in a thermometer with all this heat talk, and the temp was 30C so I guess I'll shut the lights down for a few days.

[StirCrazy]

Well, seeing as I have nothing but live rock I don't care this summer about the temp, my chiller is shut down, no lights on the new tank as all it has is water. (don't want to add anything till painting and new skimmer are done, well maybe the rock soon) but if I had to keep things cool a chiller would be the only way for this weather as evaporative cooling like Sam said is good for 5 or 6 degrees, but on my tank before the chiller I could easily get up to 100+ degrees so 5 or 6 didn't cut it as my tank used to get up to low 90's on hot days like this.

Central air is good for a little bit of cooling and if you don't have MH it will probably be enough, but remember air is a very pour source of cooling power as it heat value is about 1/4 that of water so you would need a lot of cool air flow to remove the heat caused by MH light and I don't know of any central ACs that are affordable that could keep up to the demands of a large tank.

Steve