Water Temperature (1 Viewer)

[SUP]

How do you keep the water temperature at a respectable (74 -78) temperature?

I have a 55 gallon aquarium (FOWLR) with a single powerhead but a very strong eheim pump in an internal wet dry filter.

A/C unit is kept at 77 -78 during the day and 74 at night.

Water temperature in the day goes up to the 80 -82 mark. Damsels look fine but trigger looks unhappy as he stays near the bottom and does not move around much.

I have the powerhead pointing to the surface. One side of the tank has glass tops. No sump?


Just trying to figure out what else can be done.

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[i_am_poor]

Hook up a chiller is your best bet if your tank is lit with vho/t5/mh

 

[RR-MAN]

For fish only nothing to worry about. Your temp is fine.

Some reef tanks get to 80. I was running 2-400/W MH without a chiller and my temp reached 80s without any harm to corals.

 

[Diesel]

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[malira]

What Diesel said. That's what I do. I keep the house around 74 to 75.
If not, is the top of your tank open or covered with glass? You can also put a small computer type fan to blow across the top of the tank. There are threads about that.

 

[jqsquared]

Fan blowing across the water will help cool it, although Diesel is right, your FOWLR so lower 80s isnt generally a problem.

 

[SUP]

Top is covered on one side and 1/2 of top covered on other side. I am going to try a fan across the top and see if that helps lower the temp. Fish do not seem to like the warmer temp. I have disconnected the heater in the tank. It was previously set at 77.

thanks,

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[OceansX]

It doesn't sound like the pumps you have dump a lot of heat in your tank, and I can't imagine a FOWLR tank having intense lighting either?

I think a fan is your best solution. Make sure you run the fan's air into your tank. I've run computer fans this direction and they'll run well for years. The other way, they'll burn out quickly. If your return pump's casing runs hot, you can run a fan across them too.

By running fans across the top of my tank and on my external return pump casing, I've kept my tank near the A/C's set temp or a few degrees cooler, depending on what my lighting and pump scheme were.

 

[Mark L.]

Another vote for fan. I have a fan that blows across my sump. My tank stays right at 77.1 degrees. If I turn the fan off it goes right up to 82 degrees in a matter of hours.

Also I would remove the tops you have covering the tank. If you have fish that jump look into making a screen cover for it. Many of us use them. Here's an example...

You can buy the screen from Bulk reef supply and the frame is your basic window screen frame you buy from Lowe's or Home Depot. They have videos on Marine Depot on how to make them.

 

[jqsquared]

Just to further continue the great advice on this post. Does anyone have any pictures of their fan setups that we could see?


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[SUP]

What kind of screen material do you use? Is the frame support the same as you would use to make a window screen?


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