My AC has died on me. And the weather here is 120 degrees. So the house is very hot at moment. With that the water is heating up too much. What can i do to cool it down? Or at least prevent my fish from dying. I have to many tanks to move them. And i have been trying to repair the AC woth no luck. So any ideas?
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ShinySideUp
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Bags of ice in the tanks is about all you can do but putting wet towels against the glass then blowing a fan over them might help but I don't know by how much.
Add airators, take lids off and fans over water surfaces.
Be very careful adding ice, unless you are watching the temps like a hawk constantly. Fluctuating temps (rapid cooling, cooling and heating back up only to be cooled again) is far more dangerous for your fish than leaving the tanks alone and doing the aerator/lids/fan thing
Be very careful adding ice, unless you are watching the temps like a hawk constantly. Fluctuating temps (rapid cooling, cooling and heating back up only to be cooled again) is far more dangerous for your fish than leaving the tanks alone and doing the aerator/lids/fan thing
Being from Arizona I know exactly how this feels.
The advice to float bags of ice is right on the money. Also make sure the surface of the water is moving more than normal which helps get oxygen into the water. When it comes to water more heat means less oxygen as the heat reduces the water's ability to hold onto the oxygen.
The advice to float bags of ice is right on the money. Also make sure the surface of the water is moving more than normal which helps get oxygen into the water. When it comes to water more heat means less oxygen as the heat reduces the water's ability to hold onto the oxygen.
ShinySideUp
Fish Herder
I agree with Alasse in hindsight. Take off anything over the tank, keep the lights off. Water will chuck out enormous amounts of heat given the chance.
That's unfortunate. Adding some cooler water through water changes can also help, or more exactly topping up the water that evaporates, because that's the mechanism that will keep the water cooler, it will be evaporating off the top.
I'm in the UK and have had this problem with our current heat-wave!
I've been putting ice cubes made from dechlorinated water into the tanks and then when I'm not around to keep an eye on things like when at work I've been putting in ice packs from the freezer and blowing a fan against the tank over the top of another ice pack. I've watched that it doesn't drop too quickly and it usually lowers the temp. a couple of degrees C.
Thanks for the reminder about increasing the aeration, chad - I'd forgotten that bit of advice tho I have recently added an extra small filter to each tank mainly to increase the flow around the tank for the plants (and hopefully create some standby filters, but that was secondary to the flow increase)
I've been putting ice cubes made from dechlorinated water into the tanks and then when I'm not around to keep an eye on things like when at work I've been putting in ice packs from the freezer and blowing a fan against the tank over the top of another ice pack. I've watched that it doesn't drop too quickly and it usually lowers the temp. a couple of degrees C.
Thanks for the reminder about increasing the aeration, chad - I'd forgotten that bit of advice tho I have recently added an extra small filter to each tank mainly to increase the flow around the tank for the plants (and hopefully create some standby filters, but that was secondary to the flow increase)
Well done!
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