If your house is getting too hot for your aquarium before you drop cash on a big chiller or give up the tank try some fans blowing across the top of your tank. Just use caution they are not too close or able to fall in. Salt creep building up on electrical appliances not made to be around saltwater could become a hazard! Use caution.
Note: saltcreep aka DRC Secretary may also be a hazard if left alone with your aquarium and an empty cooler.
Ice bottle savior:
A used cleaned soda bottle, filled with RODI, and set in the fridge with out a lid could help save your tank. Temperatures could reach 100*F in the next couple of days. verdict_in
If the power goes out or your AC fails you may need a way to keep your tank cool. If you have a very large tank you may consider freezing more than one bottle.
Lid off while freezing so the bottle doesnât crack.(and donât fill the bottle to the tip top) Then place a lid on it before putting it in the tank. That is unless you could also use 2L of top off which actually would work out real well in that case.
With the lid on itâs just like a heater, but cooling the water that passes by versus warming it.
If you have a very small glass sump you may want to be careful that the ice bottle doesnât go right up against the glass. Weâve never heard of it happening, but can imagine a scenario similar to a hot coffee pot and cold water. Probably doubtful, but worth mentioning.
to freeze platic bottles of water you have to leave room for the ice to expand as it freezes. water expands about 10% in volume when it freezes into ice. so i used to fill the bottle 90% full or a little less to be safe. then sqeeze the bottle till all the air is out and cap. that leaves room for it to expand.
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Just remember the water that will be displaced from placing bottles in your sump! Donât want your skimmer to overflow :)[/quote]
