help how do to cool tank

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bethie_dawn

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I know how to heat a tank but how do you keep it cool. I live in arkansas were it is HOT! My tank now is running 74 to 80 and it is only June. My Guppies are not suppose to get any hotter. Someone please help.
 
You can look into buying a chiller for the tank. Or you could put the tank on the floor were it is cooler.
 
put a big coil of copper tubing in a min fridge and pump your tank water through it:grinyes:
 
really only have 2 decent options:
1. Buy a chiller for your tank
or
2. Set them aside in a special air conditioned room
or
3. Just see what happens
 
cheap and quick... get a 1.5 liter empty bottle of coke. fill it up with clean water. stock like 5-8 if it would fit your freezer. when temp starts to rise get the coke bottle and dip it in your tank. (this was one of the suggestion of fellow MFK members). i never tried it. but i think it would work. and would not affect the tank. unless your tank is 10-20 gal maybe you'll have a temp fluctuation on that.:)
 
I live ion Texas and I had a similar problem. If you only have guppys in the tank, go to radio shack and buy the small powerful fans they have and run the air across the water, if your lights are adding to the heat, that is another bonus, $35.00 and your cooling down about 3 degrees.
 
i had a similar problem yesterday as my heater was accidentely set to 32 degrees instead of 27... i did a 30% water change and put a big fan on the glass to let colder air flow past the tank. helped quite as its 2,5 degrees lower after 24 hours.
 
  1. Get an A/C unit for your quarium room (fastest/easiest option)
  2. remove the canopy and direct a fan on the water. Ventillating the glass sides does not do a lot, but when the air blows over the water surface, you gain an additional cooling effect by evaporation (risk fish death by jumping out or electrocution)
  3. Use the suggested ice or water change technique (labor-intensive)
  4. install a drip system (best option)

:thumbsup: HarleyK




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Interesting replies... Here's another one. Are you close to an outside wall ? Dig a hole 6ft deep (post hole diggers are a fast choice) outside and measure the temp at the bottom. Mine stays about mid 70's in summer. If it's cool enough to make a difference, make vertical coils of tubing (I used copper for best heat transfer since I have freshwater tanks and never noticed a problem w/chemicals) to fill the bottom foot or two of the hole, I then filled the bottom of the hole with sand to six inches above the coils and filled the rest with vermculite so that water would drain down to the coils and I could retrieve the coils to check for corrosion. Heat transfer depends on tubing type, size and volume of water being pumped thru it. Slow and steady is the best bet.
Hey, worked for me :grinyes: .
 
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