6 months of Abei love, now a problem

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ride1226

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I just recently moved, and up until now everything has been perfectly stable for my little guy. He has been well fed, water always clean, temp always steady. I just got a new apartment here in sunny SoCal and its already starting to look like a hot summer. His heater has always kept his water at 77 degrees and he has been very happy, but with these last couple warm days I sense some trouble in the future. His tank has hit 82, and it hasnt even really began to be spring, let alone summer. Its gonna get HOT and I think thats gonna end up being not too fun for the little guy. He is in a 30 gallon tank, and quite happy right now, I just want to prepare for the heat.

Is there any chillers for smaller tanks like this? What kind of options do I have? Thanks for the help guys, Ill get some pics of my little bugger for ya soon, hopefully a feeding video to come as well!
 
Get a window air conditioner, so you both can be cool.
 
Wish I could. Only window in my room is a big sliding glass door.
 
Do waterchanges and add cool water. Or you can drop in ice cubes to cool the water down. Some people even freeze plastic bottles filled with water and then float those in the tank.
 
That's just going to cause fluctuating temps, which can be worse than steady high ones. There are these new-fangled wall air conditioners, too. It hangs up like a picture.
 
Actually, a fan blowing across the surface of the water is how a lot of folks keep their reef tanks cool. It does cause a lot of evaporation & also there is a big chance if the puffer jumping.
 
This is beginning to sound like it could cause some not easily controllable fluctuations in the temperature. I found a mini hang on back chiller for 60 bucks but it says its for 10 gallons and can lower the temp up to 6 degrees so I don't think that's gonna work on my 30. Why is there no small cost effective cooling options? Or am I missing them?
 
Not sure where exactly to find one.. but look at chillers for SW nano tanks and go from there. Chillers are expensive and few people keep coldwater species other then SW to justify the cost.. which is why they are hard to find. Looking in aquaculter web sites may also stear you in the direction as alot of chillers used FW are in houseing US natives. I would say a last effort to locat would be calling around to some local fisheries to ask if they can reccomend a company.
 
ride1226;5015709; said:
Wish I could. Only window in my room is a big sliding glass door.
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you can get a portable ac unit that has an adapter for sliding glass doors. I used to have one in my old condo. I agree with pufferpunk--you and your fish deserve to be cool.
 
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