New reef tank doing great - Nano struggling in the heat

On Jun 12, 4:40 am, KurtG wrote:

I've been touching 83 in my display tank lately, and
have lowered my AC a degree to counter it.

--Kurt

What ambient temp do most of y'all keep your room(s)? I am on my
first reef and haven't started stocking yet. I keep my house at about
78 during the day and 75 at night. With halide lights, is this too
warm of an ambient room temp?

Thanks,
Dave in Simi

I have a fan on my reef tank to cool it. The ambient
room temp, depends on a lot of factors, but I have a
personal rule, that the aquarium temp is ok untill
it hits 86. If it hits 86, then the lights go out.
If the air conditioner is on, then the air temp is
kept at about 80.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Dave wrote on 6/13/2007 11:32 AM:
On Jun 12, 4:40 am, KurtG wrote:
I've been touching 83 in my display tank lately, and
have lowered my AC a degree to counter it.

--Kurt

What ambient temp do most of y'all keep your room(s)? I am on my
first reef and haven't started stocking yet. I keep my house at about
78 during the day and 75 at night. With halide lights, is this too
warm of an ambient room temp?

Thanks,
Dave in Simi

Wayne Sallee wrote:
I have a fan on my reef tank to cool it. The ambient room temp, depends
on a lot of factors, but I have a personal rule, that the aquarium temp
is ok untill it hits 86. If it hits 86, then the lights go out. If the
air conditioner is on, then the air temp is kept at about 80.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



My personal rule is that if the rooms where my tanks are get too hot for
me then they are too hot for the tanks. Before we got the aircon I used
to have to run airpumps and vent the tanks by leaving the tops open and
turning off the lights (these were the freshwater ones). Observation is
also important. If the fish/inverts, and as I've just learnt corals,
start showing signs of distress and there is no other factor in water
quality then it could be heat.

This is my first summer with the reef tanks so very much a learning
curve. But from FW experience clear signs of oxygen depletion are the
fish at the surface and heavy gilling and I can't think it would be any
different with the marine.

BTW cutting the lighting and venting the tank by leaving the lid about
1" ajar has meant that the Nano only hit 82F max today and the ambient
temperature was higher than yesterday.

Gill

Dave wrote:
What ambient temp do most of y'all keep your room(s)?

Because I use fans to cool the tank it depends on both ambient room temp
and humidity. With humidity in the 50's (%-wise) then the room temp is
around 77 degrees. I usually keep my house at 78 during the summer, but
I don't want the temp to climb much over 83 degrees.

I'm also away from home a lot, so the systems need to be automated. I
just invested in a 3400 watt standby generator which will keep the pumps
going for 24+ hrs (among other things).

--Kurt