Throw a fan by the sump blowing across the top of the water. You will have to add more due to evaporation but it will cool it down as well.
Eric
I agree. See https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/f16/how-get-chiller-15-a-24829.html
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Throw a fan by the sump blowing across the top of the water. You will have to add more due to evaporation but it will cool it down as well.
Eric
+1 on the fan
you could probably even put it on a timer .
I read somewhere that that's the best way to do it. If you want to do hard corals, after the tank is cycled, and gone through the algea blooms, you should then put in only hard corals. What most do is put in some softies first because they're tougher or easier, but by doing that, it can make the tank inhospitable for the hard corals.
I think I'm still going to take all my softies out and start fresh with the 75 being only hard corals. I'll do a separate softy nano or something. I read somewhere that that's the best way to do it. If you want to do hard corals, after the tank is cycled, and gone through the algea blooms, you should then put in only hard corals. What most do is put in some softies first because they're tougher or easier, but by doing that, it can make the tank inhospitable for the hard corals.
I think I'll just go with an el cheapo walmart fan. I'm not even sure an azoo fan would work on my sump, it's got a weird sized fat ledge to it.
Having housed soft corals in a tank that you eventually plan to keep stony corals in doesn't by any means, make it inhospitable. The concern with softies and stonies is the release of alells by the softies of which most often results in stunted growth of stony corals. The removal of the softies and some carbon filtration will remove all toxins they release thus seeming as if they were never there. If anyone can find evidence otherwise I'd sure be interested to see it.
Jeremy
How much head room do you have for a fan, and how much air are you looking to push? Last time I was there, Lowes had "small" (about 12" or 14' high) squirrel cage blowers and those things push a TON of air.
The Azoo fans do have a really strange requirement to the size of tanks they'll fit on. I tried some for my 125 and had to return them. Not sure if I tried them on my 40g sump or not.
I ended up ordering muffin-style fans on the the tank from Aquacave and have a regular (but really powerful) household fan in the stand.
What kind of lights do you have?
Sorry, I didn't mean that if you had at one time housed softies, that the tank could never house hard corals. I mean, and I think what the article means, is if you have a tank with softies currently in it, and try to add hard corals to the mix, it'll be more difficult for the hard corals to get going, than if you remove all the softies first, or never put softies in to begin with.