Weekend Disaster

[J_G]

John,
I tried the ice thing but with over 400g of water volume and the garage temp over 90 (sump in the garage made about 135g of the water super-heated.)), it was causing more problems with a salinity swing, as it was going through ice by the 1/2 hr. Bleive me, I tried a lot of stuff as I was trying to get the chiller together.

S

you didnt dump the ice in the sump did you? put the ice in 1 gallon bags and zip em shut to prevent salinity swings. the other thing i do in an emergency is freeze bottled water and drop those in the sump. If the sump in the garage is too hot then turn it off and float bags in the show tank with power heads on full blast. High temp problems are just too easy a problem to deal with especially when there is no power outage (now a power outage and high temp is a problem all its own!!!). call one of us in the future and we could have helped.