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Old 07-31-2007, 02:52 AM
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Default Re: New Anodizer-Tank Set Up Question

Thanks guys for all of the advise. I mixed up my tanks tonight except for the anodizng tank. I've got to test some different ideas on how to keep the thing at 68/70°. I used to have a 200 and 50 gal. saltwater reef tank. The big tank had an inline chiller that cost 900 bucks. It worked perfectly – but my electric bill went up from $75/month to $950/month. Of course, I had probably 10,000 watts running on the thing with all of the metal halide lights, pumps, filters, skimmers, CO2, electronic monitoring, etc.

The little $200/$400 heat sink chillers you see advertised in the fish tank industy stink. They'd have a hard time keeping the little Siamese Fighting Fish glass bowls sold at Wal•mart at 70° much less 5 gal. The heat sinks would have to be 10 times the size to work, which is no different than what I've seen some of you doing with the radiator PVC pipe setups

My operation will be 1 or 2 items a month if I'm lucky to get away from my design studio. I guess I will try some type of cooler to set the Ano tank in with the plastic blue ice packs.

I did purchase an external 8 plug CGFI power strip. I shocked myself one time with a pump in a small outdoor pond.

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