*What kind of cool water fish or animals do you keep?* Also, if this short tutorial wasn't enough for you, we have a whole live stream that discusses how to manage heat in aquariums: ua-cam.com/video/YsBKGMNvN90/v-deo.html
hey, i'm aussie too! curious as i'm starting an axolotl aquarium soon - do you find the need for a chiller or do some of these other methods work for you??
This is great advice and useful as we are going through a UK heatwave this weekend and I have zebra danios in a 20 gallon. Thanks for the snappy content 🐠🇬🇧
All I can say is thank goodness I have cold spring water to house. The last two days was 35 C and my expensive pets need 25 C and 28 C to be happy. Water changes save the day. My wife wanted me to put the upstairs A/C. but it chills the tank too cold and waste energy on water heater.
@@redstone1999 I was thinking of water changes too but I heard you should only drop the temperature by 0.5 degree Celsius each day which isn’t much of a reduction.
best effective way to fight hot weather experience : add a fan, two or even 3 fans over your aquarium and you can make better by using a timer thermometer that can make your heater and cooler work till you reach the desired temperatures, also make sure to put the fans at an angle for example 45 degrees and not at 180 degrees relevant to your aquarium water surface as we find it most effective removing hot air and moving water together ... believe me when i say if its 45 celsius outside and we use fans and air conditioning in our rooms to keep our aquariums at acceptable 25 to 30 degrees all days its really crucial to do this lowering of temprature it in very slow intervals ... so the 5 degrees difference will take about 5 hours to change which is very fine with fish, plants and other invertables
I've found that wood hardscape, when it extends above the water line, appreciably increases the rate of evaporation. I believe that it's acting as a wick.
In desert southwest here - have patio ponds, and the best way to keep them cool all summer is running a heavy duty Vornado shop fan. I can keep the temp 20 degrees Fahrenheit below air temp, or more. Of course, I don't have the ponds in the sun - they only get a bit of filtered morning sun for maybe an hour but that's it. I run the fan on high all day, then in the after sundown turn it down to medium, then later on at night turn it on low. It's amazing how well it works. And topping off the ponds (lots of water evap, of course), I leave water in buckets on the patio over night - it cools down during night (water here is 90+ degrees right out of the tap) and in the early morning I use the cool water to top off the ponds and then turn the Vornado fan back up to high.
I'm thinking of getting an aquarium, thanks to these great videos! I live in a top floor apartment in NYC and it gets hot. Today my living room maxed out at 88.3', outside the high was 91'. So forget it in a heatwave. So if I diid get a fish tank, it's either a cooler or leave the AC on enough to keep it at 80. I'm actually glad it is the summer while I'm thinking of this!
Can you read my mind. I've been asked my people for this exact advice for like a week. My tanks have been at 90° and I've asked people just to get no response. So I took action and did water changes with colder water to get my tanks back down without shocking my fish. It's a win in my book.
This is very timely! I’m running fans. Even with AC, my tanks are on the top floor of the house and my rooms are getting warm. Ceiling fan on high and a room fan blowing hot air out the door is helping. 👍
I lost a lot of cherry shrimp due to the heat (March-May is hottest where I am). thankfully things are cooling down now and the colony will have several months to repopulate.
I have an fully frozen bottle in my aquarium and it cools the aqaurium directly a few celcius greeds and yes it takes some times but its the cheapest way and not to time consuming
Thank you, this is so helpful! I already made the mistake of setting up my 10-g tank in a window, and it has a little shoal of zebrafish in it, who I think prefer cooler temps even though they can tolerate warmer. I was definitely overthinking things like 'how much chlorine is in an ice cube?' and 'if i do a water change with cold water will that be good because it's cooler, or bad because it's a temperature swing??' I appreciate all the effort that goes into these videos.
I was worried about the heat today because the temperatures start getting very high where I live, I open UA-cam and see this video!! Haha, looks like you’ve read my mind! Thanks so much for the tips, I’m a new aquarist and this will be our first Summer, but we’re ready now!
There's also a clay cooking pot method, where water is pumped into the pot that's fixed above the aquarium and angled so the water falls back out into the aquarium. I'm guessing this works as a combination of the pot absorbing some of the heat and evaporation.
Frozen water bottles didnt work for me either. They do melt too quickly and dont cool the tank enough. You have to track melt times and swap them out. Which i couldnt do when im at work. They make fans specifically for cooling aquariums. They clip on the top of the tank and have a rotating adjustment to them. This is what I used during the 100 plus degree days. I was losing a lot of water through evaporation but it kept my temps down.
Hi Irene 👋🏾 like you I live in Denver, Colorado as well. I have never found cooling to be an issue. Even in the summer months. In the winter I’ve experienced the opposite since it gets really cold here in Denver.
I've seen people make a diy chiller with a mini fridge and thermostat. Uses a pump to run water through a hose coiled inside the fridge. Have to drill holes for the hose though. Lots of work but way cheaper than a commercial chiller.
I lower the water level in a fish tank and let the hang on the back filter returning water splash down more violently than normal. This increases the overall water movement in the tank which helps evaporation go faster when you open up a portion of the top.
@@silurtenr.3309 Replacing aquarium water with colder water in a water exchange will not lower the overall temperature over a longer period and it also creates more work for the hobbyist. Reducing lights and thermal contact with hotter mediums is a more convenient method. If you think your method is preferable, then go ahead and I hope everything works out.
Amazing. Here I was, researching tower fans because I just realized the temperature in one of my tanks was 87 degrees (!!!). I thought I need to figure out how to cool the whole room down, but no, all I needed was to watch one video by Irene and I'm all sorted. Turns out I had on hand everything I needed. Thanks a bunch!
I am new to the aquarium hobby and I would like to a planted tank with 2 males and 4 female platies 4 Otto's 4 Amano shrimp and 5 Corry's or 4 kuhlis in a 90l tank 60x40x40cm. Would this be ok or would suggest changing anything, or if I could add more fish.
idk if it is overstock or not but its actually depend on how u are handling the water parameter, overstock could work if the tanks is full with a lots of plants and frequent water change. sorry if for my bad english
I tend to rule out the middleman and just not run heaters at all. Since the Philippines is a hot country and during summer, the heat is sometimes unbearable and a combo of that and a heater can cook the fish. When it gets cooler at night, the water tends to slowly adjust to the outside temperature anyways so I never use heaters for my tanks, even if they're tropical or cold water. I tend to bust out the wave makers and powerheads to make the water move and be more oxygenated and I lower the water level so that the bubbles from the falling water can aerate the water more.
You can also buy fans that mounts directly onto the tank. I have one I got on Amazon that I use for my water dog tank. Keeps the water about 5 degrees cooler when I have it on.
I have a high tech co2 tank with amanoes, neos , snails , Pom Pom crabs and hillstream loaches. I have a Fluval 32 flex max with the Lid and recently upgraded to Fluval aquasky 3 light! It’s amazing and my plants are doing good anything less had plant growth issues. My temperature before aquasky 3 was 81 degrees, now it’s creeping to 84.5!!! I have the lights at 70% to help with temp reduction. If I add my airstone to the daytime cycle ( I have it turned on at night) will it affect or counter effect the c02 injection?
USB charger + 5 to 12v adapter cable + 120 or 140mm computer fan. Most computer fans will spin at 5v but at lower speeds, if that suffices you can just use an old charger cable.
FYI…. If you do the open top method, you should know your rooms temp will shoot up because of the humidity However, if you have a few tanks in the same room, 1 ac is around the price as an aquarium cooler, but it will cool all the tanks in the same room
Hi and I am Very New to this Aquarium Hobby So I really Need Your Help So I Got a 6 Gallon Tank Recently Dimensions Are : 15.74Inches x 9.05Inches x 9.84Inches (40cmx23cmx25cm) and I also Got A Good Internal Filter and the Temperatures are also All right as I Live in India my Water Temperature is around 26-28Celcius. And I Wanna Buy A Beautiful Looking And Hardy Fish. So can you suggest Me Fish Please Many Suggested Me Bettas But still I am not sure If I should get bettas or anything else. Which Fish do you Suggest Me? And Thx a Lot😃
My AC broke down and the house has been up to 88 several times this week! But, by unplugging the heaters, turning off the lights, lifting the lids and using room fans, the tanks never got over 84 but were cooled down to 80 by morning. Too warm for the danios but I can't make them any cooler right now.
Thank you for the helpful ideas,I just have a biocube 32G.I have a room fan going to cool the tank,it does help but this heat wave in NY is hell.Im just concerned about my fishes.
Hi, how did you start your aquarium garden? I want to add some plants to my 20 gallon for my three goldfish to reduce ammonia and nitrates in the water. I had some duckweed but somehow I managed to kill it. We don't have a heating lamp over our fish tank because we live in Florida and the water is already too warm (why I'm watching the vid rn. Any idea on plants that do okay in darker colder waters that can coexist with goldfish? If anybody has suggestions please tell me, I'm desperate 😅
Is 86F too warm for parrot head cichlids? I keep a tank in the garage in Texas and she hit 85 today basically. Also have giant danio which I know prefer colder, hoping they don’t mind or I’ll have to grab a chiller
I have axolotls and was gifted them by my bff who's a veterinarian technologist got a living. She helps breed them and sell at conventions with her family and such. I lpve your natural set up. Our 75 gallon tank had fancy goldfish and it's all natural like this set up! We have a 60 gallon for the 2 albino axolotls fed worms (red wigglers) nightly 🌙 but we have the chiller that is expensive to run at our apartment thanks to the air always on and all our gaming things. But I love this set up, thanks again for teaching! I'll put my axolotls in the basement someday with low lights just because they are top predators and love the dark, and enjoy seeing humans but we never use the lights unless we have to for lights. Qe also use a magnet float cleaner for the glass tanks. That way it's always easy to clean. Lovely cute fish, ours love the natural plants. Air stones naturally cool so the gas exchange is cool and helpful as heck! I almost bought one once on a website dedicated to aquatic hobbies. Thanks again for sharing. I might buy fans for my axolotls since 60-66 Farenheit is ideal for them but anything above 70 F isn't the healthiest but ours can handle it, I just blast the air to prevent that at all costs. We're also working in figuring out if we need to clean the arctica chiller 10/1hp
So thankful for my cool well water. I have tropical fish but I live in a place where i gets up to about 115° in the summer which is obviously too hot for any living being to be in😂 so sometimes if it’s so hot that the a/c isn’t doing the best, my tanks start rising up to the mid 80s which is just scary. I’ll probably be trying the water change method since my tanks seem to hold temperature for a long time!
I found out that messing with water heater's sweet spot usually backfires most times. I just unplug during heat wave until air temperatures drop to acceptable before repluging heater. This avoids the heater trying to heat up the cooling water and messing with the plan and even the heater (in some cases).
pretty sure most people have some form of movement in the water water pumps...filters...co2...why not use them? the same principle used in a recuperator design can be applied in a fish tank using filter pumps.. just connect the filter tubing to a split connection and put the connection in the vertical...colder water will flow down..hotter will flow up... connect the bottom to your diffuser and the top to a tube leading all the way to the top of the tank put a regulator knob on the top tube so you can get some bubbles in your diffuser otherwise water will just flow in the easier direction without resistance (up) this is the simplest way you can lower a few degrees in your tank without an ac/chiller
Maam. I live in South East Asia. The temperature here is 32-34°c daily and my water always get around 30°c. I have Channa that like under 25°c water. Chiller is expensive so, help?
You should take care of the fan because in your case with the Betta. He could get sick because he is sometimes reaching for air since he is Anabantoidei. My dwarf gurami died because of a fan.
I had to use ice packs in my 10gal all last summer- it's def not ideal. Sitting here watching an a/c condensor get swung onto my roof as I write this. About to have solar powered a/c! I'm so relieved :) I'm working on MTS of course so ice packs weren't going to cut it, lol
I heard of someone who adapted an old water cooler bottom as a chiller.(the kind that has a 5 gallon jug of water inverted on top). Someone else I heard of retrofitted a little tiny dorm fridge by putting tubing through the door gasket and circulating water through the fridge. I'm not sure whether the water was from the aquarium, but I would think the best way to do that would to circulate an outside source of water in a closed loop, going into the fridge and back out and just submerge part of the tubing into the aquarium. Just some food for thought.
I live in CA and all my fish are tropical so I don’t really have to worry about overheating much. My tank is in my room upstairs however with the AC preset to 79 they’re doing fine. I use heaters only during the fall through spring.
AC broken and the repair guy won’t be here until Friday , temps going to hit in the 90’s . I was already doing some of these and will try others if the water gets high 80’s . Thanks for the tips
So I have the opposite problem my room is it cold ass room and my tank is not getting hot either it’s the heater itself or I don’t know but I need to maintain 75° and I don’t know how
You said the magic word - air conditioning. Getting a screen made at your local hardware store is great for a breathable top… or diy it. My tap water is currently 81 degees. What temperatures are we talking about? Under 90 is not a problem for tropicals - before I insulated the garage I strove to keep it under 93 degrees. Even my Hillstream loaches were fine for the few weeks of high heat.
In a pinch, mixed salt into water bottles before freezing should extent the time it takes for them to thaw. Though it will also lower the required temperature to freeze as well.
Is this for people that don't have central AC or what? Bc my house is like 70-74 most of the time (cooler at night) and my tanks are all fine... I'm in Okinawa so def a tropical environment. I'm in military housing with AC tho so it's easy to mange their temps. Of course I have neon tetras, betas, and shrimp that all like warm water so even if it does get up in the high 70s, maybe 80 it's all good.
Usually, If I let my water run long enough, no matter how hot it is outside, eventually the water will run cold enough so that I can do a water change to cool my aquarium. (for me at least)
My 11 and 14 year old children came home with goldfish from a carnival. Our apt is very hot and the water in the tank heats up rapidly. My 11 year has been freezing water bottles and sitting them in front of the tank with a fan blowing directly on them and the tank. It seems to be working for now. I'm just worried about when the dead of summer gets here. This will become a very real battle
The workers at the pet store told me a heater would cool down my aquarium 😑. It is at 80 degrees because I don’t have AC and it won’t turn on because it’s obviously hotter than the 78 pre-set temp. I’ve tried all the methods except the last one.
I hang a bottle of frozen water over top so cool water drips into it. This also gives the animal a choice of what water temp they want to be in. Works excellent for my small pond in summer where it gets over a hundred degrees F.
The biggest rule: keep the temperature stable, not up and down a lot Open lid with air stones has worked for me, also less lights, in the UK, it's hot at the moment 30°c at 10am. My lights are on from 6pm-10pm at the moment, not lost any fish from 5 tanks
*What kind of cool water fish or animals do you keep?* Also, if this short tutorial wasn't enough for you, we have a whole live stream that discusses how to manage heat in aquariums: ua-cam.com/video/YsBKGMNvN90/v-deo.html
I have balloon Molly's, tuxedo platys and Sterbai Corrydoras
All my fish are cool (atleast i think so)
But my coolest fish are my dwarf frogs and dwarf crayfish and badis badis
I have koi, goldfish, axolotls, Chinese high fin shark, hillstream loach
Axolotl.
Needed this video during Australia's summer we had this year 🥵
Love everything you do thank you!
Definitely 👍
Yes, I actually learned a lot from forum posts written by Australian aquarium keepers because it gets so hot there!
@@GirlTalksFish hi
hey, i'm aussie too! curious as i'm starting an axolotl aquarium soon - do you find the need for a chiller or do some of these other methods work for you??
"Summer is here" while here in Singapore everyday is summer *cries*
Lol! I used to live in a humid subtropical climate, but nothing like that. 🌞
Yup everyday is like 90 deg f
@@GirlTalksFish My room temp is like 29-31 deg c ):
@@monchug i keep my room dark to keep it cold. singapore climate is harsh on fish
@@pradyumnvashishtha983 do you keep a planted tank?
This is great advice and useful as we are going through a UK heatwave this weekend and I have zebra danios in a 20 gallon. Thanks for the snappy content 🐠🇬🇧
Agreed 👍
All I can say is thank goodness I have cold spring water to house. The last two days was 35 C and my expensive pets need 25 C and 28 C to be happy. Water changes save the day. My wife wanted me to put the upstairs A/C. but it chills the tank too cold and waste energy on water heater.
@@redstone1999 I was thinking of water changes too but I heard you should only drop the temperature by 0.5 degree Celsius each day which isn’t much of a reduction.
Irene...as usual great presentation and help clearly offered...THANK YOU.
My pleasure! Not a lot of people have this problem, but hopefully it can help some people.
best effective way to fight hot weather experience : add a fan, two or even 3 fans over your aquarium and you can make better by using a timer thermometer that can make your heater and cooler work till you reach the desired temperatures, also make sure to put the fans at an angle for example 45 degrees and not at 180 degrees relevant to your aquarium water surface as we find it most effective removing hot air and moving water together ... believe me when i say if its 45 celsius outside and we use fans and air conditioning in our rooms to keep our aquariums at acceptable 25 to 30 degrees all days its really crucial to do this lowering of temprature it in very slow intervals ... so the 5 degrees difference will take about 5 hours to change which is very fine with fish, plants and other invertables
Thanks! Will try this. My aquarium temperature rises from 31 to 33C!
I've found that wood hardscape, when it extends above the water line, appreciably increases the rate of evaporation. I believe that it's acting as a wick.
This is perfect been trying to get my indoor pond to evaporate more to raise humidity for plants.... will try this.
Is there any videos or posts to see how it works? I’m really curious
Irene videos are always a go go 🌸🌸
Definitely 👍
Great video and information 😁👍 i saved a Painted Turtle yesterday from a busy highway uploaded the video today 😀
In desert southwest here - have patio ponds, and the best way to keep them cool all summer is running a heavy duty Vornado shop fan. I can keep the temp 20 degrees Fahrenheit below air temp, or more. Of course, I don't have the ponds in the sun - they only get a bit of filtered morning sun for maybe an hour but that's it. I run the fan on high all day, then in the after sundown turn it down to medium, then later on at night turn it on low. It's amazing how well it works. And topping off the ponds (lots of water evap, of course), I leave water in buckets on the patio over night - it cools down during night (water here is 90+ degrees right out of the tap) and in the early morning I use the cool water to top off the ponds and then turn the Vornado fan back up to high.
I'm thinking of getting an aquarium, thanks to these great videos! I live in a top floor apartment in NYC and it gets hot. Today my living room maxed out at 88.3', outside the high was 91'. So forget it in a heatwave. So if I diid get a fish tank, it's either a cooler or leave the AC on enough to keep it at 80. I'm actually glad it is the summer while I'm thinking of this!
88! Get an AC sir, you’re gonna get heatstroke lol
Can you read my mind. I've been asked my people for this exact advice for like a week. My tanks have been at 90° and I've asked people just to get no response. So I took action and did water changes with colder water to get my tanks back down without shocking my fish. It's a win in my book.
Thank you for the video! It arrived just in time for the summer!
This is very timely! I’m running fans. Even with AC, my tanks are on the top floor of the house and my rooms are getting warm. Ceiling fan on high and a room fan blowing hot air out the door is helping. 👍
Same here lol my fish room is hot
@@joshszooofanimals5416 🔥🔥🔥😭😭👌
@@christinecho779
Gonna have to do a video on my fish room though lol 😆 but hopefully our fish rooms cool off
I lost a lot of cherry shrimp due to the heat (March-May is hottest where I am). thankfully things are cooling down now and the colony will have several months to repopulate.
I have an fully frozen bottle in my aquarium and it cools the aqaurium directly a few celcius greeds and yes it takes some times but its the cheapest way and not to time consuming
Nice lol
Thank you. This is brilliant!
Thank you, this is so helpful! I already made the mistake of setting up my 10-g tank in a window, and it has a little shoal of zebrafish in it, who I think prefer cooler temps even though they can tolerate warmer. I was definitely overthinking things like 'how much chlorine is in an ice cube?' and 'if i do a water change with cold water will that be good because it's cooler, or bad because it's a temperature swing??' I appreciate all the effort that goes into these videos.
I was worried about the heat today because the temperatures start getting very high where I live, I open UA-cam and see this video!! Haha, looks like you’ve read my mind!
Thanks so much for the tips, I’m a new aquarist and this will be our first Summer, but we’re ready now!
There's also a clay cooking pot method, where water is pumped into the pot that's fixed above the aquarium and angled so the water falls back out into the aquarium. I'm guessing this works as a combination of the pot absorbing some of the heat and evaporation.
Frozen water bottles didnt work for me either. They do melt too quickly and dont cool the tank enough. You have to track melt times and swap them out. Which i couldnt do when im at work.
They make fans specifically for cooling aquariums. They clip on the top of the tank and have a rotating adjustment to them. This is what I used during the 100 plus degree days. I was losing a lot of water through evaporation but it kept my temps down.
Hi Irene 👋🏾 like you I live in Denver, Colorado as well. I have never found cooling to be an issue. Even in the summer months. In the winter I’ve experienced the opposite since it gets really cold here in Denver.
thank you for all the tips! It's summer here in Canada now, and my beta tank has been slowly getting hotter and hotter
I’m such a fan of your vids! Another great job!
Really cool video thanks for the info!!
Ikr lol
I didn't realize using a bubble diffuser would help cool the tank. Thanks!
I've seen people make a diy chiller with a mini fridge and thermostat. Uses a pump to run water through a hose coiled inside the fridge. Have to drill holes for the hose though. Lots of work but way cheaper than a commercial chiller.
Thank you we live in a area whwre it gets hot in the summer great vid!
I lower the water level in a fish tank and let the hang on the back filter returning water splash down more violently than normal. This increases the overall water movement in the tank which helps evaporation go faster when you open up a portion of the top.
@@silurtenr.3309 Replacing aquarium water with colder water in a water exchange will not lower the overall temperature over a longer period and it also creates more work for the hobbyist. Reducing lights and thermal contact with hotter mediums is a more convenient method. If you think your method is preferable, then go ahead and I hope everything works out.
Amazing. Here I was, researching tower fans because I just realized the temperature in one of my tanks was 87 degrees (!!!). I thought I need to figure out how to cool the whole room down, but no, all I needed was to watch one video by Irene and I'm all sorted. Turns out I had on hand everything I needed. Thanks a bunch!
Thank you for the tips, you've saved my cherry shrimps. You look good by the way :)
I am new to the aquarium hobby and I would like to a planted tank with 2 males and 4 female platies 4 Otto's 4 Amano shrimp and 5 Corry's or 4 kuhlis in a 90l tank 60x40x40cm. Would this be ok or would suggest changing anything, or if I could add more fish.
idk if it is overstock or not but its actually depend on how u are handling the water parameter, overstock could work if the tanks is full with a lots of plants and frequent water change. sorry if for my bad english
@@braining6152 I think your English is great. In the tank I want to have it with loads of plants to help with water stability
I tend to rule out the middleman and just not run heaters at all. Since the Philippines is a hot country and during summer, the heat is sometimes unbearable and a combo of that and a heater can cook the fish. When it gets cooler at night, the water tends to slowly adjust to the outside temperature anyways so I never use heaters for my tanks, even if they're tropical or cold water. I tend to bust out the wave makers and powerheads to make the water move and be more oxygenated and I lower the water level so that the bubbles from the falling water can aerate the water more.
You can also buy fans that mounts directly onto the tank. I have one I got on Amazon that I use for my water dog tank. Keeps the water about 5 degrees cooler when I have it on.
Hi, would you be able to share the link or name of the fan you purchased ?
What's the brand?
I have a high tech co2 tank with amanoes, neos , snails , Pom Pom crabs and hillstream loaches. I have a Fluval 32 flex max with the Lid and recently upgraded to Fluval aquasky 3 light! It’s amazing and my plants are doing good anything less had plant growth issues. My temperature before aquasky 3 was 81 degrees, now it’s creeping to 84.5!!! I have the lights at 70% to help with temp reduction. If I add my airstone to the daytime cycle ( I have it turned on at night) will it affect or counter effect the c02 injection?
USB charger + 5 to 12v adapter cable + 120 or 140mm computer fan.
Most computer fans will spin at 5v but at lower speeds, if that suffices you can just use an old charger cable.
Thank you so much!! Where I live it gets really hot in the summer so I really needed this
Brilliant vid
FYI…. If you do the open top method, you should know your rooms temp will shoot up because of the humidity
However, if you have a few tanks in the same room, 1 ac is around the price as an aquarium cooler, but it will cool all the tanks in the same room
Great video!
Can i use stainless steel or alluminium frozen bottle to cool down my fish tank? I have axolotl
Hi and I am Very New to this Aquarium Hobby So I really Need Your Help
So I Got a 6 Gallon Tank Recently Dimensions Are : 15.74Inches x 9.05Inches x 9.84Inches
(40cmx23cmx25cm)
and I also Got A Good Internal Filter and the Temperatures are also All right as I Live in India my Water Temperature is around 26-28Celcius.
And I Wanna Buy A Beautiful Looking And Hardy Fish.
So can you suggest Me Fish Please
Many Suggested Me Bettas But still I am not sure If I should get bettas or anything else.
Which Fish do you Suggest Me?
And Thx a Lot😃
Very helpful! Thanks
My AC broke down and the house has been up to 88 several times this week! But, by unplugging the heaters, turning off the lights, lifting the lids and using room fans, the tanks never got over 84 but were cooled down to 80 by morning. Too warm for the danios but I can't make them any cooler right now.
Thank you for the helpful ideas,I just have a biocube 32G.I have a room fan going to cool the tank,it does help but this heat wave in NY is hell.Im just concerned about my fishes.
Great tips! - Little Bobby
Hi, how did you start your aquarium garden? I want to add some plants to my 20 gallon for my three goldfish to reduce ammonia and nitrates in the water. I had some duckweed but somehow I managed to kill it. We don't have a heating lamp over our fish tank because we live in Florida and the water is already too warm (why I'm watching the vid rn. Any idea on plants that do okay in darker colder waters that can coexist with goldfish?
If anybody has suggestions please tell me, I'm desperate 😅
Today I learned aquarium co-op is based less than an hour from me how cool!
Great info as usual.
👍💓👍
Thanks Irene your tips are very helpful
Thank you!!
Great video
Perfect timing! My AC died and my aquariums are getting too warm.
Is 86F too warm for parrot head cichlids? I keep a tank in the garage in Texas and she hit 85 today basically. Also have giant danio which I know prefer colder, hoping they don’t mind or I’ll have to grab a chiller
Very helpful and TIMELY information. Thank you so much! 🤩
Oooooo…Yes. My fishies thank you 😊
More fantastic information!
Great info and one topic I have been looking for since summer gets above 100 degrees regularly where I live
I have axolotls and was gifted them by my bff who's a veterinarian technologist got a living. She helps breed them and sell at conventions with her family and such. I lpve your natural set up. Our 75 gallon tank had fancy goldfish and it's all natural like this set up! We have a 60 gallon for the 2 albino axolotls fed worms (red wigglers) nightly 🌙 but we have the chiller that is expensive to run at our apartment thanks to the air always on and all our gaming things. But I love this set up, thanks again for teaching! I'll put my axolotls in the basement someday with low lights just because they are top predators and love the dark, and enjoy seeing humans but we never use the lights unless we have to for lights. Qe also use a magnet float cleaner for the glass tanks. That way it's always easy to clean. Lovely cute fish, ours love the natural plants. Air stones naturally cool so the gas exchange is cool and helpful as heck! I almost bought one once on a website dedicated to aquatic hobbies. Thanks again for sharing. I might buy fans for my axolotls since 60-66 Farenheit is ideal for them but anything above 70 F isn't the healthiest but ours can handle it, I just blast the air to prevent that at all costs. We're also working in figuring out if we need to clean the arctica chiller 10/1hp
So thankful for my cool well water. I have tropical fish but I live in a place where i gets up to about 115° in the summer which is obviously too hot for any living being to be in😂 so sometimes if it’s so hot that the a/c isn’t doing the best, my tanks start rising up to the mid 80s which is just scary. I’ll probably be trying the water change method since my tanks seem to hold temperature for a long time!
Great tips and well presented.
Turning down my heater or adding cold water usually gets my tank temperature down?
I found out that messing with water heater's sweet spot usually backfires most times. I just unplug during heat wave until air temperatures drop to acceptable before repluging heater. This avoids the heater trying to heat up the cooling water and messing with the plan and even the heater (in some cases).
Thank you for the great info!!
Right now just keeping our AC cold and a fan over the tank works, but I'm nervous about hurricane season and possible power outages.
Which brand of aquarium water chiller is dependable and wont malfunction on me and my goldfish?
pretty sure most people have some form of movement in the water water pumps...filters...co2...why not use them? the same principle used in a recuperator design can be applied in a fish tank using filter pumps..
just connect the filter tubing to a split connection and put the connection in the vertical...colder water will flow down..hotter will flow up...
connect the bottom to your diffuser and the top to a tube leading all the way to the top of the tank
put a regulator knob on the top tube so you can get some bubbles in your diffuser otherwise water will just flow in the easier direction without resistance (up)
this is the simplest way you can lower a few degrees in your tank without an ac/chiller
Maam. I live in South East Asia. The temperature here is 32-34°c daily and my water always get around 30°c. I have Channa that like under 25°c water. Chiller is expensive so, help?
You should take care of the fan because in your case with the Betta. He could get sick because he is sometimes reaching for air since he is Anabantoidei. My dwarf gurami died because of a fan.
Very useful tips
I kept goldfish. I enjoyed them very much.
Thanks Irene have a grate day
I had to use ice packs in my 10gal all last summer- it's def not ideal. Sitting here watching an a/c condensor get swung onto my roof as I write this. About to have solar powered a/c! I'm so relieved :) I'm working on MTS of course so ice packs weren't going to cut it, lol
I’m the only one who is not crazy ?
And I had just considered getting a chiller thank you
I heard of someone who adapted an old water cooler bottom as a chiller.(the kind that has a 5 gallon jug of water inverted on top). Someone else I heard of retrofitted a little tiny dorm fridge by putting tubing through the door gasket and circulating water through the fridge. I'm not sure whether the water was from the aquarium, but I would think the best way to do that would to circulate an outside source of water in a closed loop, going into the fridge and back out and just submerge part of the tubing into the aquarium. Just some food for thought.
Fish tank chiller is not that expensive
I live in CA and all my fish are tropical so I don’t really have to worry about overheating much. My tank is in my room upstairs however with the AC preset to 79 they’re doing fine. I use heaters only during the fall through spring.
Can I place a goldfish in 12 gallon tall Boyu MS 520. I moving to Costa Rica close to the mountain. The average mid-75s to low 60s
You shouldn’t. What type of goldfish is it, is it a common or fancy goldfish? If it’s a common I recommend 40+ gallons, if it’s a fancy, 20+ gallons.
AC broken and the repair guy won’t be here until Friday , temps going to hit in the 90’s . I was already doing some of these and will try others if the water gets high 80’s . Thanks for the tips
How many degrees will a fan lower the temperature? Our house temp is in the 80s. I am wanting to have a shrimp tank.
In my testing with desktop size fans, in my fish room and at my store it was on average 9 degrees cooler.
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Yeah lol
Ceiling fan in the same room as tank gives an average -1.5F when running at medium speed. Virtually noiseless.
The USB fan works really well. I just wish someone made a holder for them that could be attached to the side of the tank.
I forgot to mention that companies sell mini fans that specifically go on top of aquariums, so that would work too.
Which fan did you buy I’m looking to get one ?
Do you have any videos of the filter sponge size comparison?
So I have the opposite problem my room is it cold ass room and my tank is not getting hot either it’s the heater itself or I don’t know but I need to maintain 75° and I don’t know how
Do floating plants retain heat in your tank?
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You said the magic word - air conditioning.
Getting a screen made at your local hardware store is great for a breathable top… or diy it.
My tap water is currently 81 degees.
What temperatures are we talking about? Under 90 is not a problem for tropicals - before I insulated the garage I strove to keep it under 93 degrees. Even my Hillstream loaches were fine for the few weeks of high heat.
In a pinch, mixed salt into water bottles before freezing should extent the time it takes for them to thaw. Though it will also lower the required temperature to freeze as well.
Is this for people that don't have central AC or what? Bc my house is like 70-74 most of the time (cooler at night) and my tanks are all fine... I'm in Okinawa so def a tropical environment. I'm in military housing with AC tho so it's easy to mange their temps. Of course I have neon tetras, betas, and shrimp that all like warm water so even if it does get up in the high 70s, maybe 80 it's all good.
It's too expensive here in California to use our a/c. Just fans for us and it got 107f last summer
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Top tip folks......move to Scotland, no need to worry about heatwaves 🤣
Thank you i needed this cuz my goldfish tank is getting so hot i keep it at 68f but now its at 79-80
Did you see Irenes suggestions to help keeping a tank cool? Try it...she had good examples.
@@jrcyberpastor122 i did
Usually, If I let my water run long enough, no matter how hot it is outside, eventually the water will run cold enough so that I can do a water change to cool my aquarium. (for me at least)
My 11 and 14 year old children came home with goldfish from a carnival. Our apt is very hot and the water in the tank heats up rapidly. My 11 year has been freezing water bottles and sitting them in front of the tank with a fan blowing directly on them and the tank. It seems to be working for now. I'm just worried about when the dead of summer gets here. This will become a very real battle
Yeah Irene!!
Added as auxiliary heater: Consistent temperature after one week
The workers at the pet store told me a heater would cool down my aquarium 😑. It is at 80 degrees because I don’t have AC and it won’t turn on because it’s obviously hotter than the 78 pre-set temp. I’ve tried all the methods except the last one.
my nano tank quickly heats up to 30 celcies but its in the middle of my house and theres no sunlight why does it always go to 30 ?
I hang a bottle of frozen water over top so cool water drips into it. This also gives the animal a choice of what water temp they want to be in. Works excellent for my small pond in summer where it gets over a hundred degrees F.
My arowana jumped off when I added ice packs to cool down the tank in summers
The biggest rule: keep the temperature stable, not up and down a lot
Open lid with air stones has worked for me, also less lights, in the UK, it's hot at the moment 30°c at 10am. My lights are on from 6pm-10pm at the moment, not lost any fish from 5 tanks
My country is hot constantly and my tank averages at 30-31c I really don’t know what to do when I’m not at home there is no way to cool it down