• Hannah

Good day everyone! The long-awaited summer has passed, or rather the summer heat! The question has arisen on how to lower the temperature in the marine aquarium!!! Right now, it's 27 degrees in the apartment and 26.9 in the marine aquarium! I'm interested in budget-friendly methods; how do you practice this? I have a 95-liter tank, and I've prepared a small plastic container to freeze water in, which I will place in the aquarium! I don't know if this will be effective and how often I will need to change the ice ))))))

Amy5070

I cool the aquarium and the room with a household split air conditioning system. It's good for me, the aquarium, and the fluffy cats. If you're looking for a budget option, you can try using bottles with ice, but you'll have constant fluctuations in temperature, which can stress the fish and corals. A more gentle and smooth method is a cooling system that blows air over the "mirror" of the aquarium. However, an automatic top-off is desirable in that case. A chiller is expensive and will heat the room, so you'll have to cool it as well.

Charles5941

A couple of computer coolers on a timer relay is not a bad option to start with. I used that for 3 years for cooling. They make quite a bit of noise at night in the heat. I recently bought a refrigerator - it has become more comfortable for both me and the aquarium.

Stacy6866

A regular room fan helped me just fine; I set it to level 1 and directed it towards the water, which lowered the temperature by a couple of degrees. Naturally, I had to add more water.

Christopher8654

The fan is directed at the water from above? I read somewhere that coolers are installed to blow away from the water, or is it only for coolers and in cases with a lid!? And if the aquarium has no lid, should the fan be directed at the water? Is that correct?

Alejandro

I have an open top, I was just directing it tangentially, part of the airflow hit the surface, increasing evaporation = cooling, the efficiency is low, of course, but as a temporary solution, it will do.

Andrew7823

Lyosha is absolutely right; you can't come up with a better split than 25 degrees. But with a 95-liter tank and no money, you can put a cooler on the water's surface—the water evaporates, which usually lowers the temperature by no more than 3 degrees, but that was enough for me. For automatic topping up in such an aquarium, a simple two-liter inverted bottle (the principle of a cat's waterer) works flawlessly because there's nothing in it that can break!