Temperature

[N©KI]

I'm running into problems now of my 80 gallon rising to temperatures at highs of 82F during the day. It's getting pretty warm up here. I dont have any cash to buy coolent units or anything. Any ideas?

 

[Leopardess]

I assume it isn't in the sun or anything? Does it even have a heater on it, or does it just stay warm? As long as it stays warm and does not fluctuate during the day, your fish should adapt to it. If there are fluctuations, and your heater isn't on, turn your heater up to 82, and just keep it at that temp. Its a little warm, but its better than "up and down, up and down". I think a chiller would be an exorbitant amount of money and not really worth it also...

what kind of lights are you using? anything that gets hot? like incandescents?

 

[N©KI]

I have a 200w thermo regulated Tronic heater set to 78F. When the temp falls below it turns on until the temp raises back to 78f. It's usually constant. When the temp is above, the heater stays off until it drops back into its range.

The tank has two 40w fluorescent LifeGlo bulbs on my tank, and no direct sunlight. It's just that now it's July, and the temps are hitting 30c here. Hoping it doesn't go too much higher, or i'll be restocking my tank.

::Edit because i'm a moron.

 

[FroggyFox]

If you have incandescent lights I would definitely not leave them on as much during the day. Like leopardess said, make sure the tank isn't in sunlight.

If its just because its been warm out and you want to keep the tank cooler you could point a fan towards the tank and open up the lid.

 

[N©KI]

Sorry, I wasn't really paying attention to what I was typing. I meant I have 2 40w Flourescent Life-Glo not incandescent.

 

[Leopardess]

well...hmm. is there any way you can get the lights farther up from the tank? And I'd do what froggy said...try opening the top up and fanning it... My point with the heater thing, was that if you can't seem to cool it down, set the heater up to 82, that way there won't be any fluctuation..it would just stay warm. THe fluctuation will hurt the fish more than that higher temp.



edit: do you have live plants or anything? Would turning on just one set of 40w help to cool it off a degree or two?