Over heat problem

thry frozen ro/di water. at least that is how i keep the temp down

 

Ceiling fan? Do you have a sump? Not sure why you couldn't hook up a couple fans......I have a 75g with a sump and a fan on both the top and in the sump-they help a TON. Plus a ceiling fan and the curtains drawn and I'm able to keep the heat down.

 

Ice probe

 

can u stick a plastic soda bottle into one of the back chambers? if so, freeze a few with water in them and stick one in when its getting warm.... its a lame solution, but can make a difference.
And you could run your lights for only 6 hours a day.

 

Well, you have a number of ways to get your tank temp down.

1) Take your temp to a location where the ambient room temp is cool enough to offset the heat generated from your pumps and lights like a basement
2) Use a chiller (ice probe or inline type)
3) Use a fan
4) Float ice packs

Obviously some of these are tactical solutions more for emergency use, others more strategic for sustained use. Good luck with whatever direction you choose.

--AJ

 

The Current USA chillers are nice, I run one and am confident I won;t ever come home to a boiling tank.
If it were me, I would figure out how much money in livestock I have along with the time you have invested in keeping it alive and compare that to a cost of a chiller.

I know it's gonna hurt the pocket book but so would watching everything in your tank dwindle away because of the heat. Remember not only are you dealing with high heat, you are also now dealing with major temp swings. Put those 2 together and nothing good will come out of it.

Gee, I should be a sales rep for chiller companies....LOL

Good luck man.

 

I got my chiller from Ebay.  It was refurbished from Current USA...

 

I'm having the same problem, but I'm thinking about making a Mini Fridge chiller so I can keep my fish food and then chill my tank too.

 

I looked into this and it was counter productive. you would need to run copper piping to do any good, and by the time you buy all the copper tubing, pump to run it and get it accurate you could have just bought a chiller.

 

How would you run your tank water thru copper piping and have it not leech into your water and kill your corals?

--AJ

 

I was wondering that myself, couldnt you use aluminum?

 

Couldn't you just put some sort of coil in the tank and run separate water through it back to the cooling unit?
I've never looked at chillers so I have no idea how they operate /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif

 

Wait, not copper tubing. What tubing do chillers use again?

 

Where's all that heat coming from? Powerheads? Might be worth getting something that generates less heat like Tunze's or Vortek's. Just a thought.