How to lower the water temperature ..help needed

[oscar vini]

hello everyone,
i need some advice here ..i have a 55g setup ...it has 1 oscar and a green terror few silver dollars ....all of them r small ...i have a canister filter and a power filter ..the problem is the temperature of the water is always around 30 deg ie. 86F ...any help to cool the water i plan to float some ice packs ...but some how i feel it is not a good idea...chillers r sooo expensive ...but if no other way i am ready to buy one .

thanx
vini

 

[duke33]

Why? Is it that hot in your house? A chiller would be my guess. That's a bummer.

 

[Lupin]

Put plastic bottles of water filled at 2/3 in the freezer and float them afterwards in your tank. You can replace them constantly if you have several bottles in stock. Be sure to switch on all airpumps in the meantime or increase surface agitation as the oxygen will be seriously depleted causing the fish to gasp for air.

 

[oscar vini]

Put plastic bottles of water filled at 2/3 in the freezer and float them afterwards in your tank. You can replace them constantly if you have several bottles in stock. Be sure to switch on all airpumps in the meantime or increase surface agitation as the oxygen will be seriously depleted causing the fish to gasp for air.

will do that thanx alot

 

[bigspizz]

I don't see 86 being a severe enough issue to warrant buying expensive equipment or worrying too much about the fish at all. 86 is high, but still 100% tolerable to your stock. Just make sure you have plenty of air, because high temps exhaust dissolved oxygen rapidly.....Good luck

 

[oscar vini]

I don't see 86 being a severe enough issue to warrant buying expensive equipment or worrying too much about the fish at all. 86 is high, but still 100% tolerable to your stock. Just make sure you have plenty of air, because high temps exhaust dissolved oxygen rapidly.....Good luck

i have plenty of air goin .......thanx a lot for ur advice i feel much better now

 

[rjmtx]

Bigspizz is right, for what you have that temp is ok. If it gets real high (i.e. 90s), open the top and put fans on it . Evaporation will help cool it down. The fluctuations will be less severe than ice packs getting thrown and it'll be easier to keep up with topping off the tank than dealing melting miniglaciers all day.

 

[Dan F]

You can lower the temperature by a few degrees with a fan blowing across the top of the aquarium.

 

[oscar vini]

Bigspizz is right, for what you have that temp is ok. If it gets real high (i.e. 90s), open the top and put fans on it . Evaporation will help cool it down. The fluctuations will be less severe than ice packs getting thrown and it'll be easier to keep up with topping off the tank than dealing melting miniglaciers all day.

You can lower the temperature by a few degrees with a fan blowing across the top of the aquarium.

thank u everyone for ur advice and help

 

[toxicfish]

I keep my tanks about 84 degf. It shoots up to 90 in the summer. nNever had any problems