Air Condition Problem

[p fish]

I'm in NC and my air in my house is out and will be out for more then 24hours. Any suggestion on what to do with my reef tanks while I wait for a repairman to get to me. The temp on the outside is in the mid 90s during the day. Any help with this will be much appreciated.....thanks.....

 

[njdiver]

Over on About.com there was a suggestion for keeping the temps down, basically if you have a sump you could put a few ice cubes into a ziplock bag and float them in there. (Or use a tupperwear container, but the idea being not to just add the melted ice water to the tank.)
Anyone else????

 

[p fish]

great article on about.com........thanks......

 

[steamboat1569]

I have done the ice in the zip lock bag thing. I found out that if you add a little water to the ice in the bag, it seems to cool it off faster.
It worked for me. Also, don't use a sanwich bag, use the gallon size, or lots of the small ones.

 

[jonthefb]

i have done a similar thing with this idea, but i froze buffered ro water in bottles in the freezer, and then, once frozen, i would take the cap off, and float it in the last chamber of my refgium, where my return pump is so that the water flows over the bottles, and as the ice melts, it will replenish some of the evaporated water in the system! I have had no problems with this method yet!
good luck
jon