-- Bill Flowers "Life's journey is not to arrive-in-the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy ****, what a ride!"On 5/31/06, Moontanman-in-aol.com <Moontanman-in-aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 5/31/2006 1:10:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > hillbillynursery-in-yahoo.com writes: > > My problem is my native fish need cooler temps. The > house sits on 78F during the summer and 70F in winter > as it is cheaper to heat the whole house than to run > tank heaters in all my 32 tanks for my warm water > friends. So I am going to have to come up with a way > of cooling a tank for natives(which will probly be > another year away) now that yall got me hooked. And to > think I joined this list to only find native killies. > > Later, John > > > > I am fortunate (?) enough to have a wife who is going through menopause > and > she likes the house to be cold, not cool, cold! This transfers directly to > the > aquarium so get to keep my aquariums cool and please wife-in-the same > time. > Of course this has the draw back of having to live in a cold house and > wear > on my much over worked whole house AC unit. At some point I was really > into > the whole live reef hobby and if I remember correctly someone made a > really > nifty AC unit that had a titanium probe that you dropped into the sump to > keep > the high temperature lights from cooking your corals. That was many years > ago > so the technology should have been improved quite a bit by now. A small > old > window AC unit should be able to be converted over to having the cooling > coils > in a probe of some sort. It might be a great way to bring down the water > temps. I'm not sure where fish tank cooler technology stands right now > but it > should be both cheaper and more efficient by now. > > Moon > Send in your name to be added to the petition to ban Dihydrogen monoxide. > Dihydrogen Monoxide is a very dangerous chemical. Death can directly > result > from the ingestion of too large an amount of this chemical. It is found > in all > manufactured foods and canned drinks. The average person already contains > so > much of this chemical we sweat it out in large amounts on a hot day. Even > mothers milk contains this long lasting chemical. Lets do something about > this > chemical before it's too late! > /----------------------------------------------------------------------- > / This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes > / Association (NANFA). Comments made on this list do not necessarily > / reflect the beliefs or goals of NANFA. For more information about NANFA, > / visit http://www.nanfa.org Please make sure all posts to nanfa-l are > / consistent with the guidelines as per > / http://www.nanfa.org/guidelines.shtml To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get > / help, visit the NANFA email list home page and archive at > / http://www.nanfa.org/email.shtml /----------------------------------------------------------------------- / This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes / Association (NANFA). Comments made on this list do not necessarily / reflect the beliefs or goals of NANFA. For more information about NANFA, / visit http://www.nanfa.org Please make sure all posts to nanfa-l are / consistent with the guidelines as per / http://www.nanfa.org/guidelines.shtml To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get / help, visit the NANFA email list home page and archive at / http://www.nanfa.org/email.shtml