Chiller Needed

[rwilliams26]

After trying different things, and after watching my water temperature hover between 79 and 82 degrees for the past couple of months, I've decided to go ahead and get a chiller for my tank. Can anyone give me some feedback for best price/value?

Thanks! :shock:

[adaminaustin]

What size tank do you have. or gallons of water in your system?

[TexasState]

Get one that are a little more powerful then your tank's rating.
79 to 82 degrees is still OK for reef tank.

[MikeP]

I think you are still ok with that temp for now. If you want to look at chillers locally Austin Aquariums carries refurbished Teclima chillers which are very nice. Jim Norris has a beefy chiller too in his set up you might want to ask him for input also. If you have a refugium or sump there is a inexpensive piezo chiller that you can get that will drop it a few degrees - let me dig up the link for it I know I've seen people using them on nano-reef.com.

[rwilliams26]

Adam,

I'm running a small, deep tank...Oceanic 43 gallon setup. Thanks so far for the great feedback! I'm also going to call Jim when he gets back from vacation and see what he might have to say. :)

[adamRS80]

I have the same tank as you do, and a 250 MH. My temps peak at about 82 degrees. I called Jim Norris to ask him what he thought and he said he thought I'd be fine and not to go buy a chiller. Try leaving the lid open if you have one and a ceiling fan on in the room if one is available. My house is set at 75 and it's been just fine. Not only that but the I recently saw a report of the actual water temperatures in Fiji and I believe it peaks around 85 F. I looked for the website where I saw it but can't find it. I think it might have been from www.NOAA.gov Just don't rush right out and buy anything. If you do I think you'd be fine with one of the small thermoelectric one's made by Coolworks. They can easily be mounted in a cheap power filter and will bring your temp down a few degrees but if you stay about where you are I wouldn't worry about it

[TexasState]

Your tank is running just fine at those temperature. What's the temperature of these house in relation to the tank? I'm asking b/c if your AC were to go out, you might have a problem w/ your tank. Hence, the need to cough up the money to invest in a chiller.

Of course, I've heard of situation where the chiller went haywire and refrigerated the corals, killing it.

[Bigreefer]

Have you check your thermomitor? I'm asking because I had a thermomitoer go bad on me. It was reading about 5 degres too warm.

[Bigreefer]

Have you checked your thermometer? I'm asking because I had a thermometer go bad on me. It was reading about 5 degrees too warm.

[TexasState]

In my tank, I use three thermometers. An electronic one in the sump. A stick on in the main tank. And another stick on in the sump. Can't fail me there. (crossing my fingers)

[DeletedAccount]

Have you tried just a small clip on fan blowing across the water? That lowers mine (120 gallon) 3 - 4 degrees.

[fx300]

Allow me to say that my tank was having the same problem. I accidentally broke a standing fan we were using in our room. My wife seemed to hate the idea of me fixing it and instead got one that was fancier and looks pretty. I being the reefaholic I am decided not to have this perfectly working fan go to waste. I removed the stick that comes with it and placed it facing down on my wet/dry. I could not believe that by doing this I was able to decrease 2-3 degrees my water temp. What is more interesting is that I still need one more 4" fan on my canopy. That brings me to the hypothesis that once I get that new fan I should be able to lower my temp 1-2 degrees more. Just letting you know that you might already have the answer at home. Just grave one of your fans (or buy one at Wal-Mart and if it does not work return it next day) and do a test to see if this $20 purchase will do the trick. Good luck and hope this helps ya.
Fabian

[Tim Marvin]

Fabian, be carefully placing it right over your sump. As the motor corrodes it will drip from the humidity back into the water and could wipe the tank out.

[JimD]

Tim, thats a great piece of heads up there, copper armature, copper windings., not good...

[Tim Marvin]

Right it is supposed to be a kalk drip not cop drip....... :shock: