Heat Wave

Reef Lover · 08-01-2006, 05:24 PM

Since ConEd cut back on the power my chiller is not keeping my temp down, I'm at 83.6F. Even my AC in the same room is not cooling working as well. I have frozen water bottles that I'm changing alot. I have ro water in the freezer in small bowls and was thing of putting it in the tank to help get the temp down. I have 1" of evaporation today. Tomorrow is going to be worse with the heat. Has any body have any heat issues?

Bruce · 08-01-2006, 05:32 PM

This is troublesome. My family told me about the heat wave going on there. In the 100s in NJ. What you might want to do, if you didnt already, is either turn the lights off or have them on less time. Is your chiller not able to work at all or just doesnt work enough? Heat is not fun...the natural reefs are going through the same thing...except they cant help themselves.

Reef Lover · 08-01-2006, 05:41 PM

Moon light went on at 3 today light are off. High of 110F

serotonin · 08-01-2006, 06:18 PM

It's been almost 100 around here lately, maybe over 100 today. I'm lucky enough to have central air but the thought of it breaking is not soothing

Looks like you are getting the wave that came through here, were supposed to cool off tomorrow, so hopefully only one more day for you guys! Keep up the fight

Bruce · 08-01-2006, 07:02 PM

If it is possible, i would try to get a window ac unit. I did that and my tank was fine during the summer heat here in LA.

Pro · 08-01-2006, 11:30 PM

Well my air conditioning broke today

. I don't have a chiller on my 65 so I had to float bags of ice in my tank and I had 2 fans blowing into my tank.

Reef Lover · 08-02-2006, 04:56 AM

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I had to float bags of ice in my tank

Pro, the bag of ice that you are using, is the ice made from tap water or did you freeze ro water. Be careful that the ice when it melts, it doesn't get into your tank.

As for me, yes bruce, I do have a ac unit in my window blowing at the tank. It was running all day yesterday and all night. I'm on the second floor so it gets very hot. I woke up at 2am just to check on the tank and it hit 85F so I took a chance and put in 2 frozen block of ro water. At this point the chances of everything being wiped out from the heat outweighed the chances of everything going into shock from the frozen ro water. It got it down to 83F then the chiller was able to get it down to 78F this morning. When I got my chiller I just started my setup and was sold a chiller that was good for 55g and less, boy did I learn fast never to trust a LFS. It works fine without a heat wave.

wil3357 · 08-02-2006, 06:08 AM

Reef, I have the same problem, tanks at 84. Todays supposed to be hotter than yesterday, Im on LI so its a little cooler, a cozy 97 or so. Does anyone know the absolute max. temp ? I think I can keep it @ 84 or lower. no ac where tank is, and no chiller, its a 55 gal reef.

m_lacom99 · 08-02-2006, 06:20 AM

My tank is in the basement, yesterday was one of the hottest day ever where im from... 118F

. I had a big fan blowing on it all day, got allot of evap but the highest it went was 84. No MH just PC though so that probebly helps.

Marc.

Reef Lover · 08-02-2006, 07:12 AM

I think 84-85F should be the max, as long as the temp goes up slowly they shouldn't be that stress compare to a fast heat spike. They shouldn't stay at that temp for a long time. In the winter I keep mine at 80F and they seem happy.