HIGH TEMPS: A little $$ can get you 3 to 5 degrees! Do you use one of these?

[Hemmdog]

OTHER: Central Air...

 

[Pablopufferfish]

I use a galaxy box fan. It works great.

 

[hllb]

Quick question- how does everyone with an enclosed hood keep their tanks cool?

The wifey made me enclose the sump and build a tank topper to eliminate noise and the occasional skimmer odor. Since doing so I've noticed a drastic increase in tank temps, even with my ac set to 71-72. I assume a fan wont help much since it will just be recirculating the same air.

My biocube is closed and the temps raise in the afternoon. I have a fan pointed into the holes in the back of the tank that is attached to my inkbird temp controller. It's not fantastic at reducing the temp, but it does seem to keep it from raising further. So I have it set to kick on around 79.8 degrees and so far my tank hasn't gone above that. It's only June, but its been hot here (high 80s to 90 and super humid) so it seems like it'll work for the summer. The fan has been coming on a bit earlier lately.

 

[John Hathaway]

I live in Dubai and it’s very hot all year round. Relying on the aircon is too much of a risk and too expensive. I use a TECO chiller which is brilliant and more cost effective

 

[Passedyouby]

Not sure how you built the hoods, but can you put small computer fans in the build of the hoods? Have them pull air out. Have a gap or something on the bottom so they can pull air through.

I'm sure she wont be happy that the noise and smell is back, but it may be what has to happen!! Hahaha.

 

[Passedyouby]

My biocube is closed and the temps raise in the afternoon. I have a fan pointed into the holes in the back of the tank that is attached to my inkbird temp controller. It's not fantastic at reducing the temp, but it does seem to keep it from raising further. So I have it set to kick on around 79.8 degrees and so far my tank hasn't gone above that. It's only June, but its been hot here (high 80s to 90 and super humid) so it seems like it'll work for the summer. The fan has been coming on a bit earlier lately.

I live on a lake where full basements are not an option, so I'm limited to a 3ft tall, dirt floor, crawlspace. I'm flirting with running 50ft of hose down there along the cool earth and connecting to my manifold with a 24v solenoid. Kinda a wannabe geo-thermal. Do you have anywhere possible for that at your location?

Anyone else try what I'm proposing?

 

[blasterman]

If your room temp is 80F then it's simply a matter of blasting enough fans at your tank to keep it in the low 80s. The lower the room temp, the easier it is. If your room temp is 85F then it's a losing battle and you will need to chill your tank.

I honestly dont see the need for chilling unless you start getting above 85F.

Although I rarely need it I'm building a chiller out of a jagermeister display cooler a bar owner friend gave me.

LEDs are pretty efficient, but they still cause tanks to heat up. Just put your hand underneath an LED fixture and you can feel it. All that energy gets absorbed by your tank water. I've found spacing a few sheets of plate glass underneath halides or bigger LED fixtures significantly helps this problem.

 

[RandyC]

I have three USB powered personal desktop fans running on my garage growout tank. Even when the garage heats up to high 90s, tank doesn’t go past 82.5F. good to live in relatively dry Northern California where evaporative cooling works quite well.

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[tony'stank]

I only use the air conditioning. Even when I lived in AZ that’s all I used. When the air conditioning in AZ broke for a week I turned off the lights and used two clip on fans from Home Depot. The outside temp was 115 but my tank never went above 88 and all my fish and corals survived.

 

[WiscoFishNut]

We keep our house the temp of an icebox up here in Wisco, no need for chillers, but the heaters get a workout

 

[Difrano]

Here in Florida I we run the A/C 24/7, during the day the temp SP is 76 and during nights 74, the thank never gets above 78.9

 

[SonyaBAZ]

Chiller. Way cheaper than paying to cool my entire house in AZ in the summer.

 

[Chato724]

This is how we keep cool cheap too 10/15 bucks Amazon

 

[spllbnd2]

Using fans on a controller to keep temps stable year round.

 

[Griev]

Printed a simple fan enclosure for 120mm PC Fans. Works great in California, even in the summer with no AC.

 

[Phildago]

Ac

 

[P-Dub]

I voted other since there wasn't an option for both fans AND a chiller.
Fans, and to take up the slack a chiller. Employing the most cost effective way with fans and having a chiller when things go beyond the set temperature range are what provides me the piece-of-mind needed... for me...

 

[Brandon.helvie]

Have a small house in central NY with no AC and my Nuvo 40 sits near a window which is always open. Temps have already gotten to over 90 degrees a few days. Bought a clip on fan from Walmart for $8.88 and it keeps temps at 78.8 without issue. Just have to get ahead of it an turn it on in the morning rather than trying to chase it after its already over 80.

 

[rogersb]

AC keeps the house at 70 so no need for a chiller even with a t-5/halide combo.

 

[Sleepydoc]

I got a couple of 24V DC computer fans and mounted them on the cover over my cost to coast overflow. I can run them off of one of the 24DC outlets on my Apex EB832 so they don't take an AC outlet and are controlled by my controller. I only need them during the summer but it works well to drop the temp by a couple of degrees.