98 degrees. how hot has your tank got?

[reefpimp#1]

I put glass canopies on my tank last night and went to work today. It got record warm today so I called the wife to check my temp and it was 98 degrees! Its back down to about 85 now and so far everthing seems to be doing fine, sps,lps and softies.

So, how hot has your tank got without causing severe damage?

My tank has been 112 before but only some fish and a few zoos survived and the zoos didnt open for a month. All lps,sps and softies died mushrooms even melted. Total devastation! Oh ya my gigas clam survived! mushrooms died, clam survived, wierd.

[demeyer2]

I think my record is only 89 degrees before I got a single stage controller for my fans, best investment yet. No worries, tank never gets above 82 now.

[reefpimp#1]

That is something I'm looking at getting. That and a chiller.

[BurN]

82

[scrmbld33]

had a heater fry and cooked my tank to 94 over 2 days

[reefpimp#1]

My tanksits between 82 and 85. Been that way for 4 years. Except today. And that last time.

[HBtank]

74 and 85 are the min/max.

74 before I added another heater (and out house heater had broken) and 85 when my fan broke.

I freaked out both times, you just made me feel stupid

Nice miniatus though, my roomate fed about $200 in fish to him. He was cool though, fun to watch it hide and stalk.

[mr pink floyd]

mine hit 85 once, all fish died and 2 spscorals RTN'd

that was it, i was shocked it only did it at 85, it may have hit higher durign the night, becasue i woke up to total devestation, im even thinking i lost alot of oxygen through it too

[reefpimp#1]

Your Welcome

[reefpimp#1]

You must have had a different issue besides heat unless it did get alot hotter. Oxygen might have done it though.

[Bebo77]

its amazing that anything survived your tank hitting 98... that said my tank never goes more than 1 degree above what i set my controller at..

[gialitt]

Went on vacation during summer and had power outage. Total devastation even with Smart UPS. Only tongue survived. It makes you think about these captive systems ... but then you see another great rig and you get over it.

[reefpimp#1]

Bebo77
GREAT!

[dc_909]

86

[cartoonbear]

82...gotta love the chiller

[SDguy]

My old tank hit 92F several times during summer heatwaves. Nothing died, but I had only one SPS.

[CookieJar]

99 during a heater (in the house) malfunction. 1/2 of everything died but what made it through I've now certified to be 'heat resistant'.

[teen]

record high is 86, had no losses.

record low was 60, that was about a month or two ago. i went away snowboarding for 2 days and came home to the whole tank shut off. i lost about $200 worth of frags, but no colonies, clams, fish, or inverts.

[RoGeTa]

During vacation I had the tank hit at least 94 (what it was when I got back in the evening) and it was probably like that for 10 days. Parents decided to shut off the A/C...That'll never happen again. Lost an anemone and jaw fish (jumped)

[vessxpress1]

Originally posted by teen
record high is 86, had no losses.

record low was 60, that was about a month or two ago. i went away snowboarding for 2 days and came home to the whole tank shut off. i lost about $200 worth of frags, but no colonies, clams, fish, or inverts.

This stuff is amazing. My tank got up to 82.5 today and I was feeling uncomfortable about it. It never fails cooling down to 78 at night though, and my heater has to run all night to keep it there. I have the window insulated on two sides behind it but it almost doesn't matter.

I've been experimenting with a new fan blowing across the water. It's evaporating quite a bit but temp still hit 82.5 today. Not bad I guess since the house hit 79.

Man I hate cranking up the AC so early. We just had a blizzard a few weeks ago.