Emergency Chilling Procedures - Back to the Drawing Board

[festus]

Don't try this at home ..........

Ok so last week the house A/C goes on the fritz and the tank starts getting hot. My chiller wasn't hooked up and I was in a hurry.

I figured I could put a small volume of ice in a bag in the top of the tank. Not so much as to rapidly chill the thing just enough to fight the heat rise. Go to the freezer, no ice. What the heck here's a bag of frozen peas. And whats more its already sealed in plastic. So I plopped it in the tank and went about my business. When done I returned it to the freezer.

Fast forward to last night supper. Wife starts complaining that her peas taste funny. She tries my daughters hers are bad too. I rarely eat normal peas much less funny ones so I didn't even try them. Wife throws them out and eventually figures out they are quite salty but thats not all the flavor she's got with them.

Suddenly it dawns on her that I put peas in the aquarium and the bag must not have been sealed tightly. I start laughing and pointing out to her that she has now officially eaten things from my salt tank.

[bheron]

damn! now thats bad! HAHA!

[niko5]

hahaha thats priceless!!! :P

FYI most of those frozen veggies have vent holes in them

[niko5]

Oh and the best emergency chilling is taking those small water bottles fill them with water and freeze them

[tekknoschtev]

HAHAHAHA! That made my day.

Lets add that to the "things not to do" list, because the tank would come down if I did that. If you're in a pinch though, you could put the peas in a ziplock bag, though under pressure sometimes those leak too.

[chris-miranda]

thats to damm funny your best bet is to put a fan in front of your sump you will be surprised how much it will cool your tank

chris