grius
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Great cooling method.
The tools you nead is a pc fan, a short ventilation pipe, a picknick box with a build in cool element in the insideceiling of the cooler. And a plastic box(to house the salamnders or newts in). You can also build a terrarium of wood or glas as long as you have the possibility to saw hole in it. A good way to keep the cold is to isolate the vivarium/plastic tank with foam plates and a dubbel wall to make it look good, if that is necessary will say.
So first saw 2 holes, one in the tank and one in the picknick box. 10cm dimansion pipes should be fine for a 120x120mm pc fan. Here is some pictures that describe how to do.
I have covered the pipe side that will be inside the vivarium with a strong net to prewent escape.
This is how it shall look when the pipe is installed, you could place the pipe higher if you want and that will probably be a better idea for the coold air to spread inside the tank. So that was a misstake i did when build my construction.
Now attach the pc fan inside the freezer infront of the pipe hole. As you can se i use cold boxes to lower the temperature and this works great! As i speak i have 23,7 degrees in my room, and with only those 2 green cold things i get 18,3 degrees inside the newt tank(dimension 70x47x42cm lwxh) and i dont even have the picknick device on! so if i want i could probably lower the temp to 12 degree and maybe more, i dont know. This is if i put it on, place more green/blue things and isolate my box. But have in mind that in hot weather this may be tuff, so many cold boxes is good to have ready so you can exchange.
Overview at the construction.
The only problem with this construction is the noise, so be sure to get your hands on a quite picknick box! this is wy i dont have my on for the moment(im thinking about the sals) But! i have tryed another modell that did not even sound near as loud as this modell does
Tell me if it is something you dont understand and i will try to explain.
/Tomas
The tools you nead is a pc fan, a short ventilation pipe, a picknick box with a build in cool element in the insideceiling of the cooler. And a plastic box(to house the salamnders or newts in). You can also build a terrarium of wood or glas as long as you have the possibility to saw hole in it. A good way to keep the cold is to isolate the vivarium/plastic tank with foam plates and a dubbel wall to make it look good, if that is necessary will say.
So first saw 2 holes, one in the tank and one in the picknick box. 10cm dimansion pipes should be fine for a 120x120mm pc fan. Here is some pictures that describe how to do.
I have covered the pipe side that will be inside the vivarium with a strong net to prewent escape.
This is how it shall look when the pipe is installed, you could place the pipe higher if you want and that will probably be a better idea for the coold air to spread inside the tank. So that was a misstake i did when build my construction.
Now attach the pc fan inside the freezer infront of the pipe hole. As you can se i use cold boxes to lower the temperature and this works great! As i speak i have 23,7 degrees in my room, and with only those 2 green cold things i get 18,3 degrees inside the newt tank(dimension 70x47x42cm lwxh) and i dont even have the picknick device on! so if i want i could probably lower the temp to 12 degree and maybe more, i dont know. This is if i put it on, place more green/blue things and isolate my box. But have in mind that in hot weather this may be tuff, so many cold boxes is good to have ready so you can exchange.
Overview at the construction.
The only problem with this construction is the noise, so be sure to get your hands on a quite picknick box! this is wy i dont have my on for the moment(im thinking about the sals) But! i have tryed another modell that did not even sound near as loud as this modell does
Tell me if it is something you dont understand and i will try to explain.
/Tomas
