SUPER HIGH TEMP.

[Joshua2598]

A fan will help, but blowing hot air at a tank isnt going to help a whole lot. It's like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.

i thought the point of a fan was to induce evaporation which causes the water to cool.

And I say lol for everything, I have no ideah why but i do

 

[Billldg]

We need to be realistic, you won't be able to drop water below ambient room temp without a external chiller. I was worried about keeping my water at 78 degrees when I usually kept my house at 78 degrees while at work during the day. I lowered my programmable t-stat to 74 degrees and never had an issue with keeping my tank at 78 degrees. Did my elec bill go up, yes, is it cheaper than running a water chiller, very much yes. I agree with Crab, blowing hot air across the the water doesn't do much except keep the water warm. The act of blowing air across the water in itself doesn't cool the water, its the act of evaporating water and thru the evaporation giving off heat to the outside air. If the ambient air is the same then it doesn't give off much heat and as a result doesn't cool the water.

 

[Crabs McJones]

i thought the point of a fan was to induce evaporation which causes the water to cool.

And I say lol for everything, I have no ideah why but i do

Yes, but you'll never get the tank temp to lower with such a high ambient temp

 

[Crabs McJones]

As long as he can get evaporative cooling it should help somewhat.
You need as much exposed surface area as possible for this to work. If the cover is on, forget about it.
Temps above 80 should be ok for corals but your fish are going to have a hard time. Even more so because the O2 content in warmer water is drastically diminished.

Yes but when the ambient temp in the room is 86+ as op stated, it's going to be hard to cool the tank with evaporative cooling when it's even hotter air being blown at it

 

[Joshua2598]

ok i understand

 

[Amoo]

I have a question for the OP. If the room the tank is in is 86-90F, what do you expect the tank temperature to be without some other means of cooling it off? Serious question, what was the plan here? If you already have freshwater, you should know that tanks don't magically cool themselves.

 

[Joshua2598]

I have a question for the OP. If the room the tank is in is 86-90F, what do you expect the tank temperature to be without some other means of cooling it off? Serious question, what was the plan here? If you already have freshwater, you should know that tanks don't magically cool themselves.

I have the fresh water tank in a completely different area of the house, the temp was fine in there. Never occured to me that the tank would get so high a tank in the current part of the house

 

[P-Dub]

I think you are going to have to be realistic here. There is no magic bullet for your problem and so long as your ambient room temperature is that high, there is no reasonable way to cool the tank down to acceptable levels, sustained, for long periods of time. A chiller is an expensive option for a tank that size. Another option would be one of these...
https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/iceprobe-thermoelectric-aquarium-chiller-nova-tec.html
You might find it cheaper elsewhere. Bottom line is no matter how much passion you have, that passion does not trump thermodynamics. You are going to have to invest in some sort of active and sustained chilling or combination of chilling utilizing the aforementioned methods. Nothing kills passion faster than dead fish and that gets really expensive as well.

 

[Amoo]

I have the fresh water tank in a completely different area of the house, the temp was fine in there. Never occured to me that the tank would get so high a tank in the current part of the house

Ok so simple mistake, no biggie. You just have very little time to figure out a way to solve the situation before your critters arrive. Is moving the tank to a different part of the house an option? Seems like it would make the most sense in this scenario.

 

[Toofattofish]

The other option would be to have some tubing connected to a pump that continuously flows through either the fridge or through a cooler filled with ice cold water. A google search will have some more information.

 

[Joshua2598]

Ok so simple mistake, no biggie. You just have very little time to figure out a way to solve the situation before your critters arrive. Is moving the tank to a different part of the house an option? Seems like it would make the most sense in this scenario.

I'll see if i can get the water down and maybe i could try that.

 

[Jason_1990]

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This is a budget issue. We all know this temp kills. If all fails please find a good home for the sea life.

 

[Amoo]

I'll see if i can get the water down and maybe i could try that.

Head to wally world or a local home improvement store and buy the cheapest trash can or combination of 5 gal buckets you can. Siphon the water out, when moved, put it back in.

 

[Jet915]

Yikes, 86-90? Maybe move the tank cause I dont think evaporative cooling is gonna help.

 

[Joshua2598]

I can can cancel the order tomorrow i believe, as i ordered it over the weekend and they havent shipped it yet. I'll have to call early in the morning. I ordered from LiveAquria

 

[MSB123]

Good luck! I freeze ice with salt in it using a deep freezer so I can just throw the ice cubes in my tank when it gets too hot.

 

[MSB123]

Where are you located?

 

[Amoo]

I can can cancel the order tomorrow i believe, as i ordered it over the weekend and they havent shipped it yet. I'll have to call early in the morning. I ordered from LiveAquria

LA is pretty good, you can simply call and ask them to change the shipment date to Thursday which would give you the week to get things moved around. Cheers.

 

[Joshua2598]

Im in a cooler part of Silicon Valley, it gets especially hot here near the end of summer for some reason

Where are you located?

 

[Joshua2598]

LA is pretty good, you can simply call and ask them to change the shipment date to Thursday which would give you the week to get things moved around. Cheers.

sounds like a good idea