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Temperature or Filtration??

post #1 of 4
1/24/12 at 6:54pm
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Ok here is the issue.
Had my chiller broke down on me last night.
Now this morning I did get a spare but way too small to chill my entire system.
So now I have the choice.
1 Shut down my overflow to my sump/Fuge set up, day and night till new chiller arrives (Hopefully tomorrow??) so the total water volume would go down, enough to connect the spare chiller to the DT only so I can control the temperature in the DT without filtration.
2 Dont worry about the temperature and leave the entire filtration system working with any sort of temperature control (which could run up the water temp towards 87.8F- 88.5F at the height of the day)
3 Idea would be maybe to run the chiller during the day and open up the overflow again to filter during the night as the night temp of the tank without chiller would be around 83.5F.
please advise

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post #2 of 4
1/24/12 at 7:10pm

What if you set the heater temps to 84F to reduce temp fluctuation and run the lights at night instead of daytime?

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post #3 of 4
1/24/12 at 8:43pm

Agree with Bang.......

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post #4 of 4
1/24/12 at 9:12pm
And make a walmart run for a clip on fan for your sump?
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