Keeping the water Cool!

Well, if the floor was in a basement where it might be cooler that could have worked to lower it slightly. You are lucky your first lived if you truly had no idea about them. Please give instructions on how you made your cooler after it is finished.
 
Yes well... People in pet shops don't exactly know anything about them and therefore any advice given is normally wrong. All i was told was "just feed it half a cube of bloodworms a day"

Lucky i found this forum when i did. Oh how the internet has changed our lives.

As far as the cooler goes i will post a new thread for it when its finished and give everyone some temp readings/changes.
 
That does help. Wow you're putting in a lot of effort to find these sites now aren't you?

yep lol when i get a new hobby i get pretty involved in it
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i just want the best for my new pals
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Yes well... People in pet shops don't exactly know anything about them

totally agree ! i was given a data sheet about axies when i brought em at least, but it was from "1984" lol
heres a cpl of snaps of my fan setup
i have 2 x 12cm variable fans mounted on a flexible USB light connected to a 240 - 12vlt adaptor with variable voltage controls
only about 23-25c today outside, but tank temp when i got home was down to 16c
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i turned it off cause i thought they might have been a bit cold lol it also pays to have some airflow in the room the tanks in itself "it makes a difference"
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(Message edited by kharmakazi on November 12, 2005)

(Message edited by kharmakazi on November 12, 2005)
 
My axie lived the first year of her life in warm water, because like you said Andrew, the pet shop gave me no advice except "feed it frozen bloodworm".

Granted, she wasn't as healthy as she is now, but she made it through fine.

The water temp would of been at least 35 C in the summer constantly.

Although it is obviously best for them to be cool, and we all try as hard and imaginatively as we can, I think little axies are hardier than they make out.
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When it comes to temperature i think they might be hardier. They can survive in the high temperature for a while. I wonder how axies relieve heat, you know like sweating or dogs panting.
 
Well, considering they are cold blooded they don't really have any such heat-control mechanisms--for the most part they don't relieve heat, unless you count moving to a colder part of the water.

I think the main issue is if essential proteins will start to denature at higher temperatures; it might be able to survive awhile because there are still some functional ones remaining. Their could be other issues as well; whether or not their organs can handle blood moving at that speed, etc. (their heartrate increases dramatically, gas exchange issues, etc.).
 
Thanks Greg. I thought they didn't have any sort of temperature controller.
 
hey i havnt made this cooler yet but its cheap and only eletricity used is from your filter!

you need a filter with a circular water out put and you attatch some tubing to it and then get the tubing and wind it through an eskie (a small one will be fine) and then back to the tank ( the eskie should be full of ice and a bit of water and thermos packs) i havn't had time to make one yet but i need to soon coz my tank temp gets to 23 degrees already. hope that helped
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34C degrees outside today, I have my AC going flat out and a fan on the tanks surface.Best I can get it down to is 24.My tank is only a 600cm x300x300 so a chiller is out of the question.My g/f and I are working on using a car fridge as a water cooler but we need some sort of thermostat, the only ones I can find dont have a remote sensor, any ideas?
 
Do you mean 600mm?

With these temps you wont need a thermostat, and i dont think a 50w car fridge will be enough (you are referring to those $100 cooler/warmer things arn't you).

With a high outside temperature it will be incredibly hard to get a decent pull down temperature. So if you do do something with a car fridge i would be running it flat out till it cools down enough to turn it off.

If you do want some sort of temperature controlled switch i would be looking at either the Jaycar site www.jaycar.com.au or dick smith electronics. I think i remember seeing an adjustable temperature switch kit for about $30 i think.

good luck with it.
 
your right Andrew, the little fridge didnt work at all.
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back to the drawing board
 
the girlfriend and i love our axies as much as all the great owners that use this site do too,we had a long discussion about the hot and sticky summers we get here and decided it was best we buy a couple of the expensive coolers.many people on here may think we are mad to spend all that money on 2 coolers,but we felt that our tanks are too big for ice bottles to work efficently and with the sort of job i do i really wont have the time to make sure the temps are safe all of the time.we ordered them from the net and cost 800 pounds and i think they will both handle a 500 litre tank.we just felt that this would be cost effective and also more importantly cause less heartache
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lol yeah holey moley, it'd probably be way cheaper if you made your own but not necessarily as reliable so scrap that. your axolotls are living it up by the sounds of things. hopefully you'll get enough use out of them.
 
Congrats on taking the plunge. i admire your dedication to keeping your axies in the High style all would envy!!
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