Need some help please.
Moderator: snoopdog
-
- Amoeba
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:24 pm
- Location: Enterprise, Al
Need some help please.
Does anyone know of a easy and accurate way to cool a tank with out laying down $500+ for a chiller? I have a 110 gal tall with 8 t5 lights but only 4 of them are running atm cause of the heat. There is a sump as well with a submersiable pump.
-
- Amoeba
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:24 pm
- Location: Enterprise, Al
well not sure what you have now, but you can place fans in the canopy, place fans over the sump........ Run the lights at night ( assuming the house is cooler at night ). Lots of things to do. I doubt you need a chiller with t5's unless your house is really hot ( and winter is right around the corner) or you have massing inline pumps heating the water.
"Well......maybe I did get alittle carried away! "
-
- Amoeba
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:24 pm
- Location: Enterprise, Al
-
- Amoeba
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:24 pm
- Location: Enterprise, Al
-
- Amoeba
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:24 pm
- Location: Enterprise, Al
Send me some pics please. mhughes401@adelphia.net
Sounds like your heat might be coming from underwater pumps....how many are you running and what size and type....Also what is your room temp.....you should only need one small fan in the canopy to pull the light heat out...too many and you will evaporate way too much water....also make sure your heater is not coming on.....again it sounds more like pump heat....
tbmoore wrote:Sounds like your heat might be coming from underwater pumps....how many are you running and what size and type....Also what is your room temp.....you should only need one small fan in the canopy to pull the light heat out...too many and you will evaporate way too much water....also make sure your heater is not coming on.....again it sounds more like pump heat....
I agree wit Big T, With the open lighting system you should not really have a heat problem from the lights unless the house is unusually warm.
how much water evaporates a day?
"Well......maybe I did get alittle carried away! "
- KrazyPlace
- Astrea snail
- Posts: 1005
- Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2003 4:25 pm
- Location: Beaumont, TX
Take the heater out and see what happens just in case its running on. If you are only getting down to 80F at night, then you don't need it anyways.
Since you are getting up to 84F during the day, then the problem IS the lights or a temperature spike in your house (probabaly not since it's been cool outside). Just add a fan to cool the air between the lights and the water. This will increase evaporation, but that is the whole idea. If you put the fan on a timer (corresponding to the lights), then the temperature might very well stablize from day to night.
BTW... do you have a glass top? If so... just take it off and skip the fan. It's preventing evaporation.
Another idea if you want to keep the glass top is to put a fan on a timer in the sump.
Since you are getting up to 84F during the day, then the problem IS the lights or a temperature spike in your house (probabaly not since it's been cool outside). Just add a fan to cool the air between the lights and the water. This will increase evaporation, but that is the whole idea. If you put the fan on a timer (corresponding to the lights), then the temperature might very well stablize from day to night.
BTW... do you have a glass top? If so... just take it off and skip the fan. It's preventing evaporation.
Another idea if you want to keep the glass top is to put a fan on a timer in the sump.
Wind me up!