The fans cool the water temperature via evaporation. The more you have, although it'll be cooler, but you'll lose more water. Every two days, you would need to top up the water... I gave up after some time and decided to get a chiller.
The fans cool the water temperature via evaporation. The more you have, although it'll be cooler, but you'll lose more water. Every two days, you would need to top up the water... I gave up after some time and decided to get a chiller.
When my lights comes on, it heats up pretty fast (has a hood to prevent very good air flow). So I added FANs (comes in a row of 4).
It is working well to maintain the temperature at 28-29C (before I played with a TEM chiller), else mine will go above 30.
But I think, 1-2 would work just fine to control the temperature.
Just my 2 cents worth.
It does not matter how many fans you install, it can only drop 2-3 degree from the room temperature (via evaporation).
Just get enough fans for your tank size.
ok cool . in that case i guess i will get 2 fans and place them on both ends of the tank. thanks for the answers
the one i saw is from ocean free
Last edited by benny; 31st May 2007 at 15:32.
some one reccomended a brand here can anyone help me with what it was?
also i plan to get 3 pc fans and run them spaced apart in my tank,
will this be a good idea?
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PC fan? sure why not, I DIY mine from PC fans. Those small 5cm 12V fans.
what is the neatest way to hold the fans in place on the galss rims?
where can we get those clip things? that i see on the ready made aquarium tanks?
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You can use those glass devider thing sold at LFS, refer to picture, the blue thing.
Last edited by Shadow; 27th Sep 2007 at 23:07.
wow! nice thanks. also i saw ones with like a screwable at the back? are those available at lfs?
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never see the one with screw at LFS and I probably expensive. Thus not worth doing DIY with it. I did DIY because all the part is available at home for free and the glass devider thing is only $0.30.
However, if you don't those stuff (fans and power supply), you better buy the ready made from LFS, the price is about the same.
hi bros.. you can try this brand hopar....its very powerful... i use one for every 4 feet tanks.... and all my tanks the temp can drop to 26.
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