Beating the heat!

[SkunkClown]

Hello everyone

Today I came home to my 200g reading 87 degrees. Yikes! This is just over 30 in Celcius. I run 12 T5 fixtures 12 hours a day. Im thinking of adjusting the light timer and I have put a fan overtop the aquarium with the lid open (the lid has always been open this summer). I also filled up 3 ziplock bags of ice and they are floating in the tank. My fish don't seem too bothered and there is plenty of aeration. My zoas look sad though (most polps not open) but mushrooms and frogspawn don't seem too bothered. I'm still worried about my fish and corals dealing with these hot temps. Fish include dwarf angels, kole tang, royal gramma, mandarin dragonet, tomato clown, skunk clown and banggai cardinals.

Anyone else have this problem? Is there any aqurium products such as canopy fans out there that are good? I'm in Calgary btw. Temp has already gone down to 86 in about an hour (don't want to drop it too fast).

Thanks!

[Nano]

Yea mine was 84.6 today, everything liokes normal, but I bought an airconditioner today, so the baby could hopefully sleep tonight.

Summer... Lol

[gregzz4]

Couple years ago I tried the ice pack idea when my FW tank hit 85-87 ...
Didn't help, just melted the ice
I went through 2 bags of ice and 1/2 dozen ice packs, to no avail
I ended up buying a chiller

Glad to hear it's working for you

If you have a controller, program it to start turning lights off @ diff temps

Inexpensive 120mm computer fans and a 12v powersupply work well

[Aquattro]

Easiest way to beat the heat is to run your lights at night until the temps drop back down to "normal"

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Easiest way to beat the heat is to run your lights at night until the temps drop back down to "normal"

thats my plan

haha was just gonna post this lol:P

[SkunkClown]

Thanks everyone! The nighttime lights is a good idea! If only I could figure out my husbands jimmy rigging on the light timers

[Coralgurl]

I added a couple of desk fans to my tanks, it's worked great so far.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

A multi-prong attack is best. Reverse photoperiod (lights on at night as suggested), shorter photoperiod (8-9 hrs vs 12 hrs), and fans.

However, when it became really hot in here in the past, I plugged in my 12000 btu AC and kept myself and the tanks nice and cool (I still went with reverse photoperiod).

[gregzz4]

We too have AC, but keeping a tank cool without it is something all should know about

[rynoe]

Three letters LED. Best move I ever made. More cost effective would be switching the lights to nights though.