[AquaticLife] Ice cubes for cooking aquariums! (was:Turning the heat DOWN)
Yes. They’ll float on the top and you’ll be able to see when the ice inside them has melted so you can then remove and refreeze them and put another frozen one or more in the tank to maintain your desired temperature. By having the layer of plastic between the ice and the tank, it will also slow down the rate that the ice melts so you can control the temperature better and not have to swap out the frozen plastic bottles as often.
Keep a log of room temp, water temp, how many bottles you use at a time and how it affects your water temperature so you will have it handy for next year.
I live in southern USA and our summers get into the mid-90F which would be around 34C but I just run my central A/C to keep my home temp around 74F. I checked into a DIY chiller a few years back when I realized I was having to keep my home cool even when I might not be home all day but then Hurricane Katrina hit and I had to put that project on a back burner.
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