Cooler water???

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is there anything i can buy to keep Creature's water colder you know there is a water heater is there a water cooler
 
There is a water chiller, am not too sure of the name, but think it is quite expensive. If u do a search of the forum a few people have created some homemade chillers. Just do a search of homemade chiller. Hope this helps. I am sure someone else will be able to tell you about the expensive chiller!
 
if youve got the cash for a chiller get one, theyre really east to use and maintain comapred to replacing ice etc but if finances are low the homemade ones seem to work fine
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make your own chiller, with an Ice cream Package, one that a frozen bottle (500cm3) fit inside, and buy a filter, very small. I´m druggin to the chiller 32lts/h (very small) and one bottle in the chiller, than once you reach 16ºC in the tank, (this will take several hours, and make a stock of 4 or 5 frozen bottles) , the bottles can stay there up to 6 hours. and you only change bottles, not water.
Good luck and 16ºC all the year!

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wow thats cool! can you give some more detailed instructions on how to make one? I need the home-made chillers for dummies version LOL
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There is a list of suggestions for cooling aquariums here:
http://www.caudata.org/cc/faq/FAQhou.shtml
For the homemade chiller shown, you would need to have some kind of pump, but be careful that the heat-production of the pump doesn't cancel out the heat reduction of the ice.
 
aháp, Jenn is right, but, a small pump, that can pump the full tank in 2 hours is a small pump that not produce too much heat. and that´s enough to keep low temp in your tank if it´s big. and if it´s bigger, better! also, I recomend covering tubbing outside the Ice box ( http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/793/54622.html?1147613940 ). And other thing that im Sure, you don´t need too much ice, and very big containers to keep good chiller running.
An Egypt friend, who have 35ºC in his room, and 29ºC in the tank, now the tank temp is 12ºC. This sistem works perfectly for me, and i have a very small tank less than 20lts. so, in big tanks, you´ll have very small temp fluctuations.
how big is your tank? and let see how much pumping power you´ll need
Good Luck
 
but make sure not to have the pump to strong that it stresses the axies because they can get stressed very easily from water flow.
 
or u could fork out the money and buy a chiller, much less work, theres one in the for sale section for Aussies
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There has got to be a way to convert some of the PC cooling technology to be used in a aquarium. Would running your water through some sort of fan driven radiator cool it?
 
aháp, but the radiator has to be outside the tank, so you can cool the radiator, and your fan driven now is a Pump. so you got the system that everybody uses. Just passing the water through a fan driven will only heat the water. I can´t imagine what you´re thinking, but could be a good idea. I just can´t imagine it.
 
All of the PC cooling technologies that I know of ARE available for use in aquariums. I don't think running the water through a fanned radiator (like what cars do) would work, because there just isn't enough of a temperature difference between the water and the air. It works for cars because the engine is much hotter than the outside air.

As for fans, you can buy small fans that are exactly like the ones for PCs. See:
http://www.marineandreef.com/shoppro/fans.html

There are also Peltier-based coolers used for electronics. These are also available for aquariums, sold under the name Ice Probe (google it if you are interested).

I recently found this interesting article on aquarium cooling methods:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-06/nftt/index.php
 
How about buying a small fridge and making two holes in it somehow, and putting the tubes going to and/from water to go through the fridge? So the fridge would be plugged on all the time to electric supply, so should keep it cool? Anybody try this? What happened?
Thanks in advance
 
Hey everybody,

I used to have water temp. problems in my axie tank with the water massively overheating during the day when nobody was home to open some windows.

So I bought a tank chiller for NZ$500 (was reduced from $900, what a bargain was that) and it keeps the tank temperature at about 18 degrees all summer. I tried having a fan pointing to the water and having ice bottles float in the water, but the tank (200L) might have been a bit too big for that to work.

Moral of the story, if you have the money, buy a chiller, they are great, not too noisy (don't put it in a bedroom though, it does make some noise) and it's real easy to maintain tank temperature without having to worry about changing bottles 8)

Cheers, Steffi
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i didnt no nz gets temps that high?. where abouts in nz are you?
 
I'm in Feilding (just north of Palmerston North).

The outside temp in nz is not too bad in summer, it's just that when I'm at work all day the house heats up heaps as nobody is there to open doors etc. And then over night it would cool down again, so I thought an even cold temp is probably better for the axies than temps changing all the time.
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What about a single room air-conditioning unit?They would be lot cheaper than aquarium coolers? I have no experience of air-conditioning, as am in UK, and they are not used here much. I could get an air conditioner to a 30M2 room for £185 ,whereas a properly working aquarium cooler is more than twice that price. At the mo I'm the unlucky owner of a <font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font><font color="ff0000">•</font> minicooler that doesn't really work.I can exchange it for bigger aquarium cooler, but will have to pay a lot extra.
Any ideas?How much do air coolers actually manage to cool the room? How many degrees C?
Thanks in advance
 
I'm pretty sure my axolotl tank is too warm. One of the axos has something slightly fungus-like on his arms that I heard can be caused by heat. The tank's in my bedroom which is about 75-82 degrees farenheit in summer (the room, not the tank). How warm would the tank be? The same? Everyone talks about degrees in celcius! How much is 75-82 F in celcius? And how warm is an axo tank supposed to be?

Thanks!
-gecko1
 
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