Fighting the heat wave with no chiller?
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Cool. Last year I had a pretty brilliant idea haha I got an old canister filter I had sitting around and installed it empty of any media to my tank. I placed the canister filter in one of those Styrofoam chillers you buy for $5 at the groceries store and filled it with ice. I placed the canister filter in the cooler along with the ice and just kept re-filling the little cooler with ice. It worked pretty good except I had to keep buying ice and asking someone to keep track of it when I wasn't home.
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I'm going thru this heat wave as we speak. I've never used a chiller, although at a cost. I've resorted to running my lights at night also to a limited degree. But this week ive ran my lights for a few hours in the morning and it's lights out for the rest of the day. I do missing sitting on the couch looking at my DT at night timer. I've also been keeping the sump doors open with fan to keep the air moving. Having lots of evaporation, roughly 10g since Monday. I've been lucky to only loose a couple piece and but has been lucky enough to keep my tank steady@82. I need to rethink my approach for the remainder for the summer. It's only gonna get worst...thinking of drill a hole thru a mini fridge and running some tubes thru and use as a chiller. Beats dropping top dollar on a chiller, since a mini fridge is readily available.
Sucks man I'm sorry. Yeah I was in your shoes last year. I'm going to school and I save up for tuition fees so I couldn't afford a chiller. Plus I had just bought my tank leds and that was pretty much all the money I had reserved for the tank. Thanks to the generous people in the forum I bought a chiller here at an awesome price the key is to get them in the winter when no one needs one 
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Sucks man I'm sorry. Yeah I was in your shoes last year. I'm going to school and I save up for tuition fees so I couldn't afford a chiller. Plus I had just bought my tank leds and that was pretty much all the money I had reserved for the tank. Thanks to the generous people in the forum I bought a chiller here at an awesome price the key is to get them in the winter when no one needs one
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Simple check it out. Get an external thermostat from home depot or even hydor makes one for heaters looks like this
Put the temp probe in the water. Then plug in the pump that you'll have running water through the fridge into the thermostats outlet. So it shuts the pump off once you reach your desired temp
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Put the temp probe in the water. Then plug in the pump that you'll have running water through the fridge into the thermostats outlet. So it shuts the pump off once you reach your desired temp
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