My Fish are cooking!!!!! Please help

thauro77

thauro77

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It is getting real hot in my appartment. I got a 75gl tank and I can't install an air conditioner unit in the building and the chiller is too dam expensive.
Does anybody know how to build a chiller, a good chiller that can chilled my tank. I got 105 degrees. Please HELP i don't want all my fish to die; I just lost my mushrooms, the blue ricordeas and the pulzing xeneas. The candy coral its not doing very well either. Please help!!!
 
life~reefer

life~reefer

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Many users on here have experienced this and here is a thread about what one user did. I think in the end she just put in one of those window Ac units. Could you do that??
 
ryancw01

ryancw01

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Dude...are you serious? You posted the same question last summer and you said your tank was 97degrees. Let me repeat that for the people in the back...YOU SAID YOUR TANK WAS 97 DEGREES!!! You should have learned your lesson from the stress you went through before. Buy a chiller. Sell whatever you need to sell to get the money and get on e- bay or something and pick one up, otherwise you are in for a long summer.
For now though, get some desk fans and make sure they are blowing accross the top of the water.
 
mech-a-nic

mech-a-nic

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Go to walmart buy a mini frige (59.00). get the biggest aquairum you can fit in it. 10 gallon? pickle jar? 10 bucks? and a small pump.
Now put the aquairum/jar in the frige run a hose in and out of the frig. Make several loop with hose in the jar and fill the jar with Ice and water. put the pump in the bottom of the jar/aquairum. cut he seal on the door to fit the hose exactly. or drill into the side/top. The water and ICE in the jar/aquarium nevermix with the water in the tank. the more coils you make in the jar the better it will cool.
I know its Redneck as hell
but when I was into Overclocking PCs it worked great to cool CPUs and they got a lot hotter than 100 F most ran at 75 C
without a cooler 40 C after.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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First let me ask you....WHY can't you have a window unit in your apartment?
ANdif you really can not...and you lived likethis last summer...My advice is to MOVE...There is no way I am going to live somewhere and sit in a room that gets to be 100 degrees
 
mech-a-nic

mech-a-nic

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here is a cheep cooler I found 98 dollors shipped on ----
HYDROPONIC AQUARIUM TANK CHILLER
You nave to drill it into a bucket or suspend it in the water but its an idea
 
small triggers

small triggers

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as an apartment maintenance supervisor, we do not allow people to have things hanging out of windows,, it starts to look very ghetto, plus they drip water,,, you wanna be on your back porch with someones a/c unit dripping on you while your eating or fixing barbque.
What i tell people, is go to Bestbuy/Walmart/Home Depot and get an INROOM A/C that has a HOSE vent that you set in the window opening and you can close the window to fit it. They are usually a little more than the hanging ghetto ones, but we allow them...
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by small triggers
http:///forum/post/3057375
as an apartment maintenance supervisor, we do not allow people to have things hanging out of windows,, it starts to look very ghetto, plus they drip water,,, you wanna be on your back porch with someones a/c unit dripping on you while your eating or fixing barbque.
What i tell people, is go to Bestbuy/Walmart/Home Depot and get an INROOM A/C that has a HOSE vent that you set in the window opening and you can close the window to fit it. They are usually a little more than the hanging ghetto ones, but we allow them...
So to say they can have NO a/c is not correct..they just can't have a window unit...right?
So those portable room units don't drip?
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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one how the hell do you live in those conditions
I would think anybody thats not going to chill themselves isn't going to get a chiller for his pets.
Assumming you have a fridge I suggest you start freezing 2L bottle after 2L bottle of frozen water and letting one or two float on top of your tank or in your sump if you have one. Have enough so you can swap indefinately. thats the cheap and hedious way to do it but at least the fish will live.
 
jackri

jackri

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Seriously 105 degree water temp? Thats the temp of a hot tub.... anything actually alive in it anymore?
At this point I would just take the tank down personally.
 
nycbob

nycbob

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hate to say this, but u need to get ur priority straight. maybe having a reef or fishtank right now is the wrong thing to do.
 
crypt keeper

crypt keeper

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Originally Posted by small triggers
http:///forum/post/3057375
as an apartment maintenance supervisor, we do not allow people to have things hanging out of windows,, it starts to look very ghetto, plus they drip water,,, you wanna be on your back porch with someones a/c unit dripping on you while your eating or fixing barbque....
Cant have A/C but we will let you risk burning down the entire building!
 
small triggers

small triggers

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yeah,, unfortuently it is not illegal to have a bbq here. Though the fire marshall wishes it was. We have only had 1 porch fire in 17 years (knock on wood)Though we have guidelines that must be followed in order to have one. Must be against the outside rail of the deck, not against the building. Must have a non-flammable drip pan underneath it (metal sheet or large metal cooking sheet). and NO charcoal/lighterfluid/lighters/extra propane tanks sitting on the back deck. and 1/2 of our apartments have sprinklers in the 2 rooms that border the deck and so does the outdoor storage area.
 
cablebox615

cablebox615

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All you have to do is get a portable Air conditioner. I plan on getting one soon. I feel why just cool your aquarium and you can cool the whole room for cheaper than a chiller. I kno some one who has a portable air conditioner hooked up to there aquarium controller and and they keep the room and the tank under 80 degrees. It works on big tanks and small tanks. Like I said I plan on getting one soon with a Aqua controller Apex. So I can control my whole tank from my iPhone.
 
mr&mrs.o

mr&mrs.o

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I sincerely hope that you take the advice of one of these people above (that was actually constructive)...and if not, please do take down your tank. Do what you can but if you can't get it cooled off, don't let the fish suffer.
Good luck, I'm sorry i don't have any suggestions.
 
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