Temperature controlled ice chest for long distance travel.

[Emac909]

We all know temp can be one of the biggest killer of our live stock. I’ve always contemplated taking corals to work with me and have people meet up with me. But years ago I tried this and got burned by the buyer backing out when I got to his location. So I started looking into how I could keep live stock in a temp controlled ice chest for several hours. Well I finally got most the parts. I’m still waiting on my chilling unit. But here’s the heating aspect.

 

[tangreefkeeper]

nice DIY carrier

 

[deaclauderdale]

Very impressive!!

 

[joseserrano]

I bet many vendors would be interested in these for shows/travel. Especially if you can get a good deal on it.

 

[Emac909]

Test running it today.

Tossed a handful of corals in a few Tupperware dishes. Going to see how it goes

 

[sharkbait]

We all know temp can be one of the biggest killer of our live stock. I’ve always contemplated taking corals to work with me and have people meet up with me. But years ago I tried this and got burned by the buyer backing out when I got to his location. So I started looking into how I could keep live stock in a temp controlled ice chest for several hours. Well I finally got most the parts. I’m still waiting on my chilling unit. But here’s the heating aspect.

So does that mean you will deliver to the oc and surrounding areas?

 

[Emac909]

So does that mean you will deliver to the oc and surrounding areas?

If the buyer is will to meet up with me in one of the fallowing cities San Diego, Aliso Viejo, Torrance, Buena Park, San Fernando, Ventura, Indio, Bakersfield, or Las Vegas. Also the buyer has to pay up front before 2pm.

 

[Emac909]

Temp seems to be holding well.

 

[BST310]

Are we going to get the full DIY sauce? Parts list etc.?
This is epic, like Jose mentioned you could probably sell the crap out of these things.

 

[Emac909]

So everything went fine from what I can tell.

The season greeting even had polyps out. I’ll see in the morning how everything does. I just got home. I didn’t even float the frags. I just dropped them in the tank. After putting a little bit of tank water in the Tupperware.

 

[bryanle87]

Dude that’s crazy ass diy revolutionary lol

 

[Emac909]

Are we going to get the full DIY sauce? Parts list etc.?
This is epic, like Jose mentioned you could probably sell the crap out of these things.

I just don’t know how much people would be willing to pay. Ice chests these days are crazy expensive a 9 quart ice chest is close to $20. A 50qt is almost a $100. If you minus the ice chest the pricing on the equipment isn’t to expensive. The inkbird is around $17. The heating element is close to $10 and the chiller is around $40. But here’s the dilemma. I’m making this to actually transport berghia when I’m at the point to start selling. Just look on forums and Facebook berghia are one, if not the most sought after things. If I can get healthy specimens all around SoCal I’d be in business .
So I made this to hold air temp in the ice chest. Because my plan is to have a bunch of small containers in an ice chest. I was thinking about making a larger ice chest with a bigger chiller and a heating coil liner with a sealed top so it would hold water and you wouldn’t have to worry about spilling and it getting damaged from saltwater touching components. That would be something vendors could use so they could just stack frag racks in the chest and wheel to vehicle. But then I’d also look at the fact that water weights so much. Could a person pickup a single ice chest filled with water and corals. That one would look a lot cleaner tho. I made this so it still looks like an ice chest so work doesn’t say hey why does your ice chest have so much gadgets on it lol.

 

[Emac909]

But if someone is looking to get one of these I can can make one ranging around $100-$200 depending on the size.

 

[BST310]

I think maintaining air temp would be the way to go water gets heavy like you mentioned, seems like you got this pretty well thought through.

I was thinking if you get them in the $90-$120 range people would eat them up especially on the east coast where they don’t have the weather we have. Does everyone need one? No, but you’ve been in this game long enough to see the amounts of money people spend on crap they don’t need lol.

Let’s get Emac retired off these coolers!!

 

[Emac909]

I think maintaining air temp would be the way to go water gets heavy like you mentioned, seems like you got this pretty well thought through.

I was thinking if you get them in the $90-$120 range people would eat them up especially on the east coast where they don’t have the weather we have. Does everyone need one? No, but you’ve been in this game long enough to see the amounts of money people spend on crap they don’t need lol.

Let’s get Emac retired off these coolers!!

Lol, but I love driving for Pexsi
(most the time).

 

[Emac909]

Does everyone need one? No, but

 

[Emac909]

5/5 made the 11 hour night.

 

[BST310]

Nice!

 

[Emac909]

So Amazon says the chilling device will be here tomorrow. I’m going to wire it up then put the ice chest in the warm oven for about an hour. I’m not going to bake it. Just toss it in the oven at about 100 degrees then use a 12v ac/dc converter to see if the chiller will hold temp in the hot a— over. If the chiller holds in there it will definitely hold in an ac cad of the work truck.

 

[deaclauderdale]

Won’t the ice chest melt at that temperature?