Temperature

dcombs44 · 08/09/2008, 04:32 PM

Funny thing happened today. I actually had a chance to play around with my tank today, so I took some time to clean the glass up really well and mount the sps that a fellow reefer sold me quite some time ago.

I got to looking a few minutes ago, and the water temp is over 85 on both thermometers. I've never had a tank temp that high before, and my A/C is on 72 today (and the tank is in the basement and it's not that hot outside). Could the epoxy that I used to mount my frags be heating the water up that much, or do you think it's more likely to be a pump that's failing or something?

The fish are showing no signs of stress, and I've got a temperamental leather that's not fully open, but everything generally looks fine.

Any thoughts?

stagefright13 · 08/09/2008, 04:49 PM

Real fast epoxies like 5 min epoxy get very hot. But I doubt it could heat a whole tank. I don't have corals and don't use epoxy in my tank. So not sure what type of epoxy is used to mount corals. I imagine it is fairly fast epoxy tho. But the water cools it.

No way your tank got to 85 from it tho. Unless it is a 5 gallon or something. 85 isn't TOO bad. I keep mine 80 year round. But I would cool it.

dcombs44 · 08/09/2008, 04:57 PM

Yeah, I'm not overly worried, and it may have been running that hot all summer, and I just haven't paid attention because everything looked fine.

I had just never had my tank get that warm any other time during the summers. The epoxy is actually marineland made for aquarium use, but I used it a couple hours ago. I just was just a bit stumped as to why it would've been so much warmer than I've usually seen it get. I flipped my little desk fan on under the stand. Hopefully that'll be enough to cool it a degree or two. If not, I'll pull the lights for the evening and try again tomorrow.

Thanks

08/09/2008, 04:32 PM	#1
dcombs44 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 2,913	Temperature Funny thing happened today. I actually had a chance to play around with my tank today, so I took some time to clean the glass up really well and mount the sps that a fellow reefer sold me quite some time ago. I got to looking a few minutes ago, and the water temp is over 85 on both thermometers. I've never had a tank temp that high before, and my A/C is on 72 today (and the tank is in the basement and it's not that hot outside). Could the epoxy that I used to mount my frags be heating the water up that much, or do you think it's more likely to be a pump that's failing or something? The fish are showing no signs of stress, and I've got a temperamental leather that's not fully open, but everything generally looks fine. Any thoughts?

08/09/2008, 04:57 PM	#3
dcombs44 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 2,913	Yeah, I'm not overly worried, and it may have been running that hot all summer, and I just haven't paid attention because everything looked fine. I had just never had my tank get that warm any other time during the summers. The epoxy is actually marineland made for aquarium use, but I used it a couple hours ago. I just was just a bit stumped as to why it would've been so much warmer than I've usually seen it get. I flipped my little desk fan on under the stand. Hopefully that'll be enough to cool it a degree or two. If not, I'll pull the lights for the evening and try again tomorrow. Thanks __________________ Current Setup: 10 Gallon Skimmerless Zoanthid Tank Lighting: Single 175 Watt Metal Halide (14,000 K Hamilton Lamp) Filtration: 10 gallon sump/refugium and Phosban Reactor Return: Mag Drive 700 Controller: ReefKeeper Lite (Basic Version) Circulation: TBD Age of System: Build is in Progress

08/09/2008, 04:49 PM	#2
stagefright13 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hatboro, PA USA Posts: 899	Real fast epoxies like 5 min epoxy get very hot. But I doubt it could heat a whole tank. I don't have corals and don't use epoxy in my tank. So not sure what type of epoxy is used to mount corals. I imagine it is fairly fast epoxy tho. But the water cools it. No way your tank got to 85 from it tho. Unless it is a 5 gallon or something. 85 isn't TOO bad. I keep mine 80 year round. But I would cool it.