Re: NANFA-- Question about cooling the aquarium water

dakota (dakota6_at_mindspring.com)
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:59:07 -0600

Tony, all I can tell ya is when I built my canopy with 5, 40 watt Flo.
bulbs in it, I failed to consider the heat build-up. I put a small blower
fan in and it cooled the water temps down by about 7- 10 degrees.
HTH
Charles A.
Round Rock, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony" <anutej_at_loxinfo.co.th>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Question about cooling the aquarium water

> Will blowing large amounts of air [eg. via the fan or blower] into the dry
chamber
> of the wet-dry filter helps to cool the aquarium water by a few degrees?
This is
> just the idea and I recalled someone talked about swamp cooler before but
did not
> remember what came out of it...
>
> Tony

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