How To Cool Your Aquarium In A Heat Wave 

Have you had a problem like this before?

I’m glad you got it worked out! How stressful! I can relate. My air conditioner went out for a couple days last summer. To cool my animal/fish room, I bought one of those portable ac units that has an exhaust hose that you put in the window. Thankfully all my fish and reptiles are tropical and contained to one room. I ended up putting an air mattress in the animal/fish room and slept in there though, because the rest of the house was unbearable. Those portable ac units are expensive. It took me almost a year to pay off.

I should know 🤒live in tropical Island Puerto Rico, and summer 90 degrees plus not fun for my Corydora’s & Bettas ✨👍🏻

I real life had my temp going up a lot on my tanks. I had to unplug my heater and it didn’t help that my room gets the hottest.

Thank you for this video. Its been in the 90s here , my air condition had few issues and you help me with some common sence things to do for my 2 pet turtles. Thank you.

You got suckered into a new AC unit! Most likely the start run capacitor control both fan motors and it went out. This is a $25/$50 part that get home owner sucker into a new AC unit.

Man that's some crazy heat. Hope all is well. Glad that you were able to get everything under control. 💪

I put in a shout-out to "Bay Area Aquatics" in my last video. Thanks for your great content.

Hey I had the same problem with my 40 gal stock tub outside.I’m in Saint Augustine,Fl.I used water bottles in freezer.I have White Clouds.

Thanks for this helpful video. It's getting warmer here in Disko Bay, Greenland.

Do I have to sit next to the aquarium for 24 hours if I use frozen bottle?

Thank you for sharing this video.. It's 113 here today and all we have is a portable ac. My tank is up to almost 90 and I really didn't know what to do.

I live in the east bay and went through the same thing, except I have no AC. Thankfully my tank temps only raised to the 80’s. I’m definitely using the frozen water bottle method if it happens again. Thank you

New here to show love. Very cool video and great ideas!

would ice cubes be safer for fish if its boiled before freezing them and turning them to ice cubes ??

It's constantly 115°+ during the summer where I live so the tank I have outside (no space inside) is constantly going to 95 during the day so i really need to cool the hell out of it

You can put filtered water ice cubes to help with evaporation as well

Thanks! I have the tank lid open and a fan raised on a table and trained on the surface of the water. all lights off. IT'S 90 here in London and my elderly 2 goldfish hooligans say thank you.

what filter is that in the tank with all the marimo moss balls?

what temp would water be normally when in comparison to air temp? for ex. if the temp in the room is 100 F what temp would the water be? 90 F?

And if one doesn't have an ice pack nor water bottles, one can always put a few ice cubes into a ziplock bag and float it in the water.

I’m gonna try this backwards

At 85 fish start dying for me. 90 i think all my fish would start dyinf

Get to the fuxken point