cooling a tank

I experimented a few things for my tank, as the water was around 82f. I
placed a fan in the hood, I left the hood open with a fan in it.....anyway
the pace that did it for me was placing a fan over my sump area in the stand
under the tank. It dropped the water down 3-4f. Do you have a sump in the
stand? Maybe someone else has some ideas?


"Neil Woodman" wrote in message
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Does anyone have a relatively inexpensive way of cooling down your
tanks? I plan to be using a small tank with MH lighting but I cant
particularly afford a chiller right now. Short of positioning a fan
blowing at the water surface to take the heat away can you guys
recommend anything else? My house gets quite warm in the summer and its
hard to keep cool, my tropical tank is at 30c at the moment and I've
just turned the heater off because it wont cool down at all!......Maybe
I should start keeping discus...

I had a small tank with MH, a fan was all I needed.


"BigHaig" wrote in message
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I experimented a few things for my tank, as the water was around 82f. I
placed a fan in the hood, I left the hood open with a fan in it.....anyway
the pace that did it for me was placing a fan over my sump area in the
stand under the tank. It dropped the water down 3-4f. Do you have a sump
in the stand? Maybe someone else has some ideas?


"Neil Woodman" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have a relatively inexpensive way of cooling down your
tanks? I plan to be using a small tank with MH lighting but I cant
particularly afford a chiller right now. Short of positioning a fan
blowing at the water surface to take the heat away can you guys
recommend anything else? My house gets quite warm in the summer and its
hard to keep cool, my tropical tank is at 30c at the moment and I've
just turned the heater off because it wont cool down at all!......Maybe
I should start keeping discus...