KOsika
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I know that this has been asked probably a hundred times before (I've been reading the articles and threads here) but I am having the absolute worst time keeping my axie's tank cool. I literally can not get the tank below 73 degrees. I've tried using plastic baggies full of ice cubes, soda bottles full of ice, and blowing a fan over the top. Both the ice methods essentially melt on contact; I put the bottles/baggies into the water, check my email, and when I come back a few minutes later, the baggies are already lukewarm. It take a bit longer for the bottles, but it doesn't seem to change the water more than a degree or so. The fan didn't do a darn thing.
We have a mesh top on the tank, and a slate bottom, if that helps any. I live in an apartment building so it's hard to get the temperature of the room down and there's no way I can move him to a basement. One article I read talked about insulating the tank with styrofoam, so I'm going to try attaching some of that to the outside of the tank and see if that helps any of the methods I'm using. A tank cooling unit is a tad out of my price range at the moment.
Does anyone have any suggestions on something I could do, advice on something I'm already doing that I may be doing wrong, or know where I could get a cheap cooling unit?
We have a mesh top on the tank, and a slate bottom, if that helps any. I live in an apartment building so it's hard to get the temperature of the room down and there's no way I can move him to a basement. One article I read talked about insulating the tank with styrofoam, so I'm going to try attaching some of that to the outside of the tank and see if that helps any of the methods I'm using. A tank cooling unit is a tad out of my price range at the moment.
Does anyone have any suggestions on something I could do, advice on something I'm already doing that I may be doing wrong, or know where I could get a cheap cooling unit?
