Beating the heat!

[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.

[ScubaSteve]

I had to take my chiller off line this week due to some electrical upgrades my landlord decided to do (just in time for the heat. Awesome). I hit 85 today and I'm pretty sure it was higher yesterday; it was 84 when I got home at 11pm.

I think everyone above covered the major points. Reverse period should do the trick. Worked well for me in the past.

[MarkoD]

im running leds and im pushing 81 degrees right now

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by rynoe

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

My main tank is fully LED (28 x 10w emitters; mix of 455 nm blues, 10000k, 6500k, and 20000k) and the tank doesn't get warm from the lights at all.

[camaro7019]

i have led lights and im still running a chiller in these temps! keepin the tank at a nice 80 but i live in a small apartment with a 95 gallon tank it gets toasty in the apartment wich sucks