cherryglue
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So here is washington state, its been ridiculously warm over the last two nights, almost in the 90, mid 80s fer sure. We noticed our tanks spiked to about 70-74 this afternoon, but I came home from work and our main guys 55gal tank was at nearly 80. I freaked out and threw some frozen ice bottles in there and did a 5 gallon water change of very cold water and got the temp down to 70ish, did the same for our smaller tank and our little guys has been a stable 68 for the past few hours. Big guy needed more frozen bottles because after a few hours he was up from 72 to 77.
Anyway, the temp here locally is supposed to go down tomorrow and over the next week, so we have a bit of time to figure it out, but we are looking for advice for two ideas we had, and im nervous that we will pick the wrong choice because we dont have the money to try both.
1.) (BOYFRIEND really wants to try this one because its his idea) set up an air pump on the back wall of our big guys tank rigged to a insulated picnic cooler woth frozen gallon containers of water so it pumps icy cold are into the tank, thus cooling the tank.
2.) Saw a tutorial for making a mini fridge into a makeshift cold water circulator. Only thing is that it doesnt really say how to get it pumping and we are noobs. All we know to do is gut the unnecessary racks from the fridge, get some hoses for the water to flow through, then set up a pump system (we dont have any clue how).
As I said, we dont have a ton of money, we both only have part time jobs and im started classes up soon and have little to spare, so we are leaning to the first option because its cheaper, but I need to be confident it will cool our tank...halp lol.
Anyway, the temp here locally is supposed to go down tomorrow and over the next week, so we have a bit of time to figure it out, but we are looking for advice for two ideas we had, and im nervous that we will pick the wrong choice because we dont have the money to try both.
1.) (BOYFRIEND really wants to try this one because its his idea) set up an air pump on the back wall of our big guys tank rigged to a insulated picnic cooler woth frozen gallon containers of water so it pumps icy cold are into the tank, thus cooling the tank.
2.) Saw a tutorial for making a mini fridge into a makeshift cold water circulator. Only thing is that it doesnt really say how to get it pumping and we are noobs. All we know to do is gut the unnecessary racks from the fridge, get some hoses for the water to flow through, then set up a pump system (we dont have any clue how).
As I said, we dont have a ton of money, we both only have part time jobs and im started classes up soon and have little to spare, so we are leaning to the first option because its cheaper, but I need to be confident it will cool our tank...halp lol.
) .. each fan cost be $40AUD. The highest i think it got was 23ish but usually maintains it between 18-20. Thats still not the BEST outcome but it works when your budget is tight.
