how was your tank temp yesterday 07/04?

[stubbsz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10283790#post10283790 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TikiDan
Mine hit 86 also. I dont see any losses but my skimmer went crazy and overflowed and the room smells like death. i guess we will see.

Yah, me too.
I have loads of fans but my tank scraped 86. Ice water bottles brought it down to 85.8

My house didn't seem that hot as my wife had run AC but then she doesn't blast it when she's home ever.

I've turned the lights off today and will turn them on when I get home and crank AC. Next thing to do is somehow direct the ac output straight onto the tank but the outlet is not that close by so I don't quite know how to do it.

 

[stubbsz]

Coming from a different place from CA, it really pi55es me off that they don't insulate houses decently over here.... that's gotta be the next housing project.

 

[pogiboy67]

my tank hit 86..im running only one fan in the sump..i think my skimmer was adding to the heat..so i turned it off. gonna try the ice water bottles today.. it was 84 this morning as well. wish i had money for a nice chiller

 

[Kinetic]

My lights turn on at 7:30pm, avoiding the hottest parts of the day, which helps a lot.

The tank is also in the basement, so it's always a nice 60 degrees in there no matter what the temp is like outside.

 

[Sparkss]

With the 112 degree temps we hit here yesterday (according to our outdoor thermometer) our tank rose to just over 80, which is hotter than it has been since we set it up the end of last year. Thankfully our eco cooler is able to keep the temps down, but it is not doing as good a job as it did last year during the heat wave. I can only assume that the feed pump we are currently using it just less capable than the feed method we used last year.. that or there is that much difference between our old and new tank (I know there is a size difference, but wasn't sure it would present like this in the heat).

 

[jjkief86]

mine hit 84f in san mateo.

 

[jjkief86]

mine hit 84f in san mateo.

 

[TikiDan]

Update: With a fan blowing across the water, My temp has stayed at 78! Yay!

 

[doliver]

So judging by the responses here, it sounds like no one is intentionally running their tanks at 80+? In the Reef Inverts pocket book, Dr. Shimek recommends 81-84 as the optimal temp range. I've been running there for a few months and I hit 84 with some frequency.

No good?

 

[CitS]

I think most try to keep to 82 max.
78-82 range

 

[Mr. Ugly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10286438#post10286438 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TikiDan
Update: With a fan blowing across the water, My temp has stayed at 78! Yay!

Same here

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10288278#post10288278 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by doliver
So judging by the responses here, it sounds like no one is intentionally running their tanks at 80+? In the Reef Inverts pocket book, Dr. Shimek recommends 81-84 as the optimal temp range.

Mid 70's for Tongan corals, and the other stuff doesn't seem to mind.