Help: How Can I Keep Temp Down In Tank

[FATTY FISH]

Im Having Problems Keeping The Temperature Down In My Axolotls Tank Any Ideas Would Be Appreciated.

 

[ade]

Hi There,
Apart from the usual stuff like keeping sunlight out and darkening the room i would prob use a aquarium chiller like iceprobe one that you can use easily with smaller tanks.
Come to think of it im sure you can get fans that blow cool air not sure if that would work but worth a mention.

Good luck with that !

 

[ade]

Go on amazon.com and type iceprobe , did a bit of searching and will deliver to you pretty sure.

 

[Jennewt]

Have you actually used an Iceprobe, ade? It has some serious drawbacks, including the fact that it ins't powerful enough to help much on a large tank (over 20 gallons or so).

Here is a page with a whole range of ideas for cooling:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/cooling.shtml

 

[ianclick]

Jennewt has given you the link to a rarely useful site.

A really easy way is to freeze bottles of water and place them one at a time they will melt and cool the tank but if its an on going problem you made need to find a more permanent sollution.

Good Luck

 

[FATTY FISH]

:grin: Thankyou to those who have passed on the information, i have been trying the frozen water bottles but there hasnt been much change in the temperature, and it looks like we are in for a hot summer here. . . im off to check out the ice probes now. THANKS HEAPS EVERYONE :grin:

 

[Jennewt]

Jennewt has given you the link to a rarely useful site.

I'm hoping you meant REALLY useful

 

[FATTY FISH]

Thankyou Again To All, The Information Was Definately Useful.:d

 

[Saspotato]

I found an iceprobe chiller that was $250AU (incl delivery costs) to Australia (Victoria but I doubt it would be much different for you in Brissie).

Here is the link:
http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_AquariumPage~PageAlias~chillers_coolworks_iceprobe.html

I spend ages on the net and that was the cheapest I could find. But I have about 50L of water in my tank so it is an appropriate chiller for that. If you have bigger than about 75L, you would need another type.

Edit: for some reason the link will not work so the end bit should be iceprobe.html. It removes the O or something. Dunno why

 

[kapo]

fatty fish, another alternative is you could get a 2nd hand bar fridge and fridge them for the summer, it has been done many times by aussies and other owners worldwide when needed!

If you search the forum for tank chillers one of the aussie owners in Perth posted a link to a decent chiller sometime last summer for some other aussie owners, I know she still visits the forum.

 

[FATTY FISH]

Gday, how does the bar fridge thing work?? im willing to try anything?? If anyone can give me some tips it would be great. Thanks to those who have already passed on their expertise.

 

[kapo]

The bar fridge or 2nd hand fridge if you can get one. Basically a separate fridge would be a good idea, if you can one, as then you can raise the temperature to 10=14C, low enough for your axie to still feed. Lower temperatures (below 8C-5C) and they probably won;t eat.

If you do have a separate fridge, then you may be able to put a small tank (or use the vegie bins as fridge tank - no need for substrate but just keep something over the top/lid of sorts so it doesn't take fright and leap out) and keep separate bottles of dechlorinated water in there as well for waterchanging (so they're the same temperature).