JaysLittleOcean Piece of the Reef.

My hat's off to you. The one thing i recommend is to stock the fish lightly due to your schedule. Fish cause a lot of maintenance.

 

Thank you. I definitely will do. I am only sure of two fish that I want and I am not sure what else is compatible with them. But first I need to address the issue of the temperature being too high.

 

You may be able to get by putting fans in the sump.

 

I have been throwing around a fea ideas in my head all day. That was the first I considered but I have my reservations because I have to drop it almost 5 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit. Is that even a possible outcome with just fans blowing over the sump?

 

It would certainly help. You could also do a fan blowing in and another pulling out on the opposite side. You could also vent the canopy the same way. I assume you are using LED's? How long are they on? What is the house temp kept at? Mine stays right at the ambient house temp with no fans.

 

I am using LEDs however they were not on today until I got home. The aquariums temperature seems to stay inside the 82.0 degrees through 83.00 degrees Fahrenheit at the moment. So I am doing a little test. The Air Conditioning on the lower level of the house is not running currently and I opened the front cover of the stand completely for an hour or so which did absolutely nothing. So I went and took my sons small desk fan to let it run over the overflow for an hour to see what results that yields before I move on to other ideas.

 

whatever the ambient air temp is will likely be the lowest temp of the tank without using a chiller.

 

So after running my initial fan evaporation cooling test for about 3 hours last night I saw my temperature struggle to decrease and when it went down to about 82.0 Degrees Fahrenheit I received alerts that it shortly start rising again. I figured I was missing something so I went through both the primary and redundant heater outlet configurations on my Apex Aqua Controller and didn't see anything wrong there. On at 77.0 Degrees Fahrenheit and Off at 78.0 Degrees Fahrenheit. Well I finally figured out what the issue was. The temperature probe on my aquarium did not function properly out of the box. So I configured the outlet to remain on instead of running of the automatic configuration. So the Eheim 300 watt heaters were configured at 82 degrees in order to prevent them from shutting down prematurely when the Apex was in charge of monitoring the temperature and regulating the outlet between on and off. Well guess who forgot to turn the outlets back to automatic after receiving a new temperature probe. So after configuring the outlooks correctly and letting the aquarium sit for the night in the morning I am at 78.2 Degree Fahrenheit and all seems well. Disaster averted!

 

After discovering what was causing the high temperature in my aquarium the next step is get to a desired temperature and maintain that temperature as best as possible. Currently the Apex Aqua Controller configuration for the outlets that my Eheim 300 watt heaters are plug into are set to monitor the temperature probe and either turn on at 77.00 degree Fahrenheit & turn off at 78.00 degrees Fahrenheit. After letting this run for about 1 day I started to see a nice trend created by the Apex Aqua Controller. It appears that I have a variance of 1.1 to 1.2 degrees. So I made additional adjustment to the outlet setting to decrease the variance to at minimum 0.5 degrees and also hit a average temperature of 77 degrees this morning. So I will let this run for about 1 day and see what the results are.

 

Well I test my aquarium today and amazingly enough the cycle has completed. I officially added on June 07, 2015 and less than 15 days later I am now officially ready to add fish.