Hot enough for ya??? - Page 3

rickjames · #21 07-23-2006, 02:52 AM

Except for the fact that it is barely getting under 20C at night here. I wake up in the morning and the tank is still 83F, because the house doesnt even have a chance to cool down. How do you cool down a tank colder then the air?

Global warming i tell you...

Gotta get central A/C by for next summer!

Samw · #22 07-23-2006, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by rickjames

How do you cool down a tank colder then the air?

You can do that through evaporative cooling which is just having a fan blowing across the top of the water surface.

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/...SettingUp.html

"Through the proper use of fans (evaporative cooling), you can usually drop a tank's temperature by a good 5 degrees. Fans are great! "

http://www.coralplantations.com/pages/heatissues.htm

"The effect of evaporative cooling is greater than most people realize. A small desk fan mounted above a tank blowing across the water can drop the temperature by 3 degrees or so depending on the tank volume. "

http://www.vividaquariums.com/troubleshooting.asp

It is possible to cool an aquarium by 5 or 6 degrees using this method of ventilation and evaporative cooling.

Samw · #23 07-23-2006, 04:17 AM

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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 · #24 07-23-2006, 05:01 AM

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 · #25 07-23-2006, 05:17 AM

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 · #26 07-23-2006, 05:50 PM

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 · #27 07-23-2006, 06:37 PM

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

marie · #28 07-23-2006, 07:30 PM

Basement sump works for me

. My 175g hasn't got above 84

b_james · #29 07-24-2006, 03:19 PM

Over the weekend we had temps reaching 35C, in fact by 11:00AM the temp already hit 30C. My tank temp maxed out at 72.9F without a chiller. I guess having the sump/fuge located in the basement really helps keeping the upstairs tank cool - not to mention having central A/C is a plus in keeping the tank cool.

Xtasia · #30 07-24-2006, 04:37 PM

Just an idea.. but wouldn't it be better to get an AC that will keep the room and the tank cool?

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Originally Posted by 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.