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I make no adjustments on my system for seasonal changes.
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1. Switch to DC devices. Even before they paid for the difference in a year - and now with the looming rate hikes, even faster.
2. I'm going to turn my protein skimmer and possibly one reactor off at night, ramp down my two pumps from 45% to 25% and look at possibly shortening my light schedule by 2 hours.
2a. I'm also toying with the idea of possibly lowering the temperature by 1-2 degrees and turning my UV off for 8 hours every night, but this means redoing all my temperature settings and alarms - and I consider the UV a mission critical component.
2b. Suggestions to reduce shower times at lower temperatures was met with "you don't have the same amount of hair", dimming the lights with "unlike you some of us aren't blind" and not putting up the Xmas lights this year with "you can sleep with your fishes then". Guess I'll be looking to cancel my Netflix subscription...
In the house the temperature is the same as in most of the summers so no changes for me. Finally happy that in the uk is the same all year around. Cold and wetThis thread by @zoa what inspired our QOTD today!
So yes winter is coming and is already here for some of you and with that comes higher energy bills. Of course lights, pumps, heaters and all of our aquarium equipment add to the mounting increase is costs so what can we do about it? What do you do about it? Let's talk about it!
1. What are some things you can do to help bring down the cost of your aquarium during the cold months?
2. Do you have a plan in place to reduce cost or do you just absorb it and leave everything like it is?
I'm in Melbourne area and it looks like we are gonna have a warm winter according to the Almanac. I don't really do anything to winterize anyway. Hubby puts on long johns below 68 and I put on short sleeves instead of tank tops. LOL Fish just keep on being happy. Love my little piece of the ocean.Where’s my Floridians at?!
We can’t wait for winter. We can finally turn the AC off after 9 months of full blast, and no more extremely stressful AC failures that occur in the summer. Winter is the season of cost savings for us. Time to finally get the tank heaters out of the dusty storage and plug them in for the first time this year.