Re: NANFA-- Question about cooling the aquarium water

Tony (anutej_at_loxinfo.co.th)
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:07:11 +0700

My thanks to Rhonda and Charles for helping in this subject. Anyone else have any
idea for cooling down the aquarium water without using air conditioner or chiller?

Tony

dakota wrote:

> 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

/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/"Unless stated otherwise, comments made on this list do not necessarily
/ reflect the beliefs or goals of the North American Native Fishes
/ Association"
/ This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes Association
/ nanfa_at_aquaria.net. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get help, send the word
/ subscribe, unsubscribe, or help in the body (not subject) of an email to
/ nanfa-request_at_aquaria.net. For a digest version, send the command to
/ nanfa-digest-request_at_aquaria.net instead.
/ For more information about NANFA, visit our web page, http://www.nanfa.org