"Tristan" wrote in message
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Evidently Roy Tristan is out peddling his wares destroying other ngs.
No, yu owud rather **** around and bitch with what was
opsted, than takeup the info and go with it. Hope your freaking fish
croaks now dude, sorry, but your not fit to keep fish if yu can not
take a suggestion and have to fuss in stead! I suggest re-reading that
reply and doing what was suggested if your really at all concerned.
Get the **** over it!


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:01:49 -0500, KurtG
wrote:


I added a fan that blows across the surface and light fixture. It's
staying cooler, but evaporation is higher too. I doubt that's a long
term solution given my locale, but it will hold me until next month.

--Kurt


Wayne Sallee wrote:
Yep, fans do a great job of cooling the water. I prefer to put it
over
the tank instead of the sump for 2 reasons.
(1) more surface area to evaporate
(2) fan in sump can tend to get salt spray into the air.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



sdsdevelopment wrote on 1/12/2007 8:11 PM:
"KurtG" wrote in message
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If it's not one thing, then it's another...

I came home this evening and my tanks temp was pushing 86.4.
Ouch.

I turned off one MH, turned on the AC, and have a fan on the tank.
It's starting to cool off, but what now? Chiller? Any other
tricks?

--Kurt

Kurt,
Try one of the 6" clip on fans blowing over a sump if you have one.
I
use 2-250 watt MH and 2 VHO actinics on my 65 and 90 and with 2
fans
in canopy and one blowing over my sump and I never have a heat
problem. I do have a 1/10hp chiller just in case though. Tanks stay
at
78-80 max even in the summer. On our 29 frag tank we do have a heat
issue with 1 MH but a bigger fan helped.
Water surface cooling does wonders for dropping tank temp but also
accelerates evaporation




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