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[norcalfishlover]

Hi

I started a tank in February my corals have been doing great!! Now that it is hot out my tank is staying at 82 even though I have a.c. and house temp is 71 my corals are dying. My lfs wants to sell me a chiller for 1K. Are there any other options? 65 gallon tank.
Thank you for your help!!

 

[Yolly416]

Hey i have a tornado fan over my tank and that keeps my tank at 78 degrees


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[Cancun]

Hi

I started a tank in February my corals have been doing great!! Now that it is hot out my tank is staying at 82 even though I have a.c. and house temp is 71 my corals are dying. My lfs wants to sell me a chiller for 1K. Are there any other options? 65 gallon tank.
Thank you for your help!!

+1 on the fan.....what lighting are you using? If your not using LEDs you could get descent LEDs for that tank for the same or less money than a chiller, which would not put out very much heat......just a thought....I use 2 EchoTech XR15s and my tank stays at 78......and no fan or chiller...

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[Conchman]

I run a small clip on fan over my SCA. I have it clipped to my Ecotech bracket. Keeps the tank 79.9ish. I run just before and just after my peak photo period.

 

[Uncle99]

Are you sure it's the heat that's killing them?

You already have a chiller, it's your A/C. Chillers are used for no A/C, running Metal Halide, or special circumstances, with today's AC, should be rare...

82 is just outside the 78-80 range, seems odd to me this would cause death.
Your tank is only 5.5 months old, are all parameters in check? Incorrect parameters in a young tank is the leading cause of livestock failure.

If your house is 71, your tank should not be 82, my house is 73 and my tank would run at 76 without the Heater which keeps it at 78.5

Something is adding heat, lights, are you near a window, a jammed powerhead or pump?

You only need 2 degrees so I agree completely with the others, a fan should work fine, but I am not convinced 82 killed your coral.

 

[mcgyvr]

My tank is running at 82 deg now.. (AC at 78).. everything is fine..
I know my temperature sensor is accurate.. yours may not be..

As stated a clip on fan blowing on the surface of the water can really help drop temps some..
And yes.. Whats adding the heat? What pump are you running? Got a sump,etc...
Give us details about your equipment and we can let you know what changes can be made to reduce the heat input into the tank..

 

[LeJeune981]

My tank has been between 81 and 83 since summer started.. no problems with my corals at all...

Now... a week or so ago.. it hit over 100 outside... and while i was at work.. my a.c. stooped working.. house hit 96 degrees.. and the tank hit 93..well at least that's what the temp was when I got home at 7pm..im sure it got hotter during the heat of the day..
the only things that were upset were my anemones... 2 rainbow bta... a rose bta... and curleque nem... they were quite angry at me... ohhh... and my shrooms...
but cheered up when the tank went back below 90

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[rvareef]

your corals are not dying because your tank is 82 degrees

 

[norcalfishlover]

I have 2 Kessil lights (8 hrs), Eshopps RS-100 Sump, Aquatop Pump 740GPH, Aquatop Pump 343GPH, Aqua 25w Sterilizer. My goniopora has stopped opening, part of my Hammer coral died, part of my long tentacle plate coral has died. Thank you for your suggestions and help. I think I might try the fan.

 

[ThePurple12]

Wild corals live in reefs with water temps in the 80s so 82 is perfectly fine.

 

[hijinks]

Generally 84-85 is where the trouble happens.. Sounds like another issue you are running into.

 

[Nimitz87]

your LFS is just trying to make money off that chiller sale you don't need. I agree with the others something else is amiss, what are your parameters?

 

[shaginwagon13]

Hi

I started a tank in February my corals have been doing great!! Now that it is hot out my tank is staying at 82 even though I have a.c. and house temp is 71 my corals are dying. My lfs wants to sell me a chiller for 1K. Are there any other options? 65 gallon tank.
Thank you for your help!!

Your corals are not dying because your tank is 82 degrees. They start to die/bleech around 85 degrees and higher.

I run my tank at a constant 82-83 degrees and they are doing perfectly fine. Its been rumored that running a tank at 82 will actually help increase coral growth slightly which is why I am giving it a try.

Something else is the reason to your loss of coral life.

I 'cheat' and have a 1HP chiller which is slightly undersized for my total tank volume but if needed, it would lower the tank water to where I need it. It was 45 degrees Celsius over here the last 2 weeks with the humidity outside and I think the chiller clicked on once. If you maintain a house air temperature around 75-78 degrees, your tank should not be that far off. Like suggested, try first running some fans. FAR cheaper than a chiller and for 95% of people it lowers the temperature more than enough.

 

[hkgar]

Yup to all above. It ain't the heat. .

What are the tanks parameters NO3, PO4, Ca, Mag, dKH (last 3 not so important if you only have softies, but could be affecting the Plate).