Chillers

[Nman]

Hi everyone
Just after a bit of info
I have a volume of water at 34L . Do fan chillers work or do I need a proper chiller . Any one know of a cheap chiller for this amount of water . Any help would be grate Thank you

 

[tbrown3589]

Hi everyone
Just after a bit of info
I have a volume of water at 34L . Do fan chillers work or do I need a proper chiller . Any one know of a cheap chiller for this amount of water . Any help would be grate Thank you

I live in the desert and run surface agitation on my 125 gallon tank- it evaporates enough to keep the temperature at 78 even when my house is at 83.

 

[Propane]

There are aquarium chillers that are for axolotl tanks should work for a smaller tank pretty well.

 

[Nman]

There are aquarium chillers that are for axolotl tanks should work for a smaller tank pretty well.

Propane have you any more info on this I have never heard of this thanks nman​

 

[Propane]

Propane have you any more info on this I have never heard of this thanks nman​

Propane have you any more info on this I have never heard of this thanks nman​

So my friend with axolotls said she got one on amazon I looked and found a bunch but couldn’t create a link on my iPad. She got one there. Poafamx is the one she got. She said it seems to work pretty good.

 

[Nman]

So my friend with axolotls said she got one on amazon I looked and found a bunch but couldn’t create a link on my iPad. She got one there. Poafamx is the one she got. She said it seems to work pretty good.

Thank you I will check it out thanks again I appreciate it

 

[Nman]

I live in the desert and run surface agitation on my 125 gallon tank- it evaporates enough to keep the temperature at 78 even when my house is at 83.

Hi @tbrown3589 have you more info about this please Thank you

 

[ca1ore]

Fans work by evaporating cooling. Very effective as long as the humidity stays under 50% where you live. Above that they work less well.

 

[tbrown3589]

Like @ca1ore said the surface agitation - you can use a fan or powerheads - causes evaporation which drops the water temperature. The higher the surface agitation the higher the evaporation. The bigger the surface area you have the more effective it is at cooling.

How much are you trying to drop the temperature?

 

[Nman]

Like @ca1ore said the surface agitation - you can use a fan or powerheads - causes evaporation which drops the water temperature. The higher the surface agitation the higher the evaporation. The bigger the surface area you have the more effective it is at cooling.

How much are you trying to drop the temperature?

It’s a native nano it sat at 19 now in the house but wanting to 12 uk cold water

 

[tbrown3589]

It’s a native nano it sat at 19 now in the house but wanting to 12 uk cold water

That's a pretty significant drop in temperature so you might need a little more than surface agitation.

 

[ca1ore]

Like @ca1ore said the surface agitation - you can use a fan or powerheads - causes evaporation which drops the water temperature. The higher the surface agitation the higher the evaporation. The bigger the surface area you have the more effective it is at cooling.

How much are you trying to drop the temperature?

Like @ca1ore said the surface agitation - you can use a fan or powerheads - causes evaporation which drops the water temperature. The higher the surface agitation the higher the evaporation. The bigger the surface area you have the more effective it is at cooling.

How much are you trying to drop the temperature?

I don’t think that’s what I said lol. Surface agitation has very little to do with it. The fans function is to remove the higher humidity air from the top of the tank and replace it with lower humidity air thus accelerating evaporation.

 

[Reefering1]

And that can be enough to bring water temp below ambient? Just curious how one can have 83* ambient and 78 in the tank. Maybe live in desert that has very low humidity?

 

[tbrown3589]

And that can be enough to bring water temp below ambient? Just curious how one can have 83* ambient and 78 in the tank. Maybe live in desert that has very low humidity?

I live in the desert, yes. Surface agitation causes evaporation, evaporation cools the water.

I don’t think that’s what I said lol. Surface agitation has very little to do with it. The fans function is to remove the higher humidity air from the top of the tank and replace it with lower humidity air thus accelerating evaporation.

Ok. So another way of causing evaporation to cool the water.

 

[Reefering1]

Makes sense. I'm in Florida, I get 5-6 degrees reduction using fans/ evaporation but that only gets me to within 1-2 degrees of ambient