Heatwave!!! How are your tanks doing?

Grins said:
I have friends in Canada that said they were melting as well. Not sure how some survive summer temps without central a/c
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I am from Canada, and a normally cooler part, and I was floating ICE packs, and running a fan non stop for 2 weeks. This week it let up and now I am not doing anything.

My tank topped out at 88. I could not keep it down. I moved my light up 6 inches, was floating ice packs non-stop, had the lid off and had a huge fan blowing across it. I had 4 ice packs in the rotation at one point, they melted in about 30 minutes. One when I went to work, 1 when I got home, and 2 more during the evening. My top being off was scary since I have a few fish known to jump, but they seem content in the tanka nd do not venture near the surface. I also have a digital thermo now, and it works alot better. Turns out my strip one is probably 2 degrees off.

And we do not survive without A/C when it gets hot. We just stay still and hope it ends, while sweating alot, or you take cold showers alot. We have plenty of fresh cold water.
 
Well I was complaining about the ac not being able to blow hot air to the 2nd floor of the house so now the whole thing just blew up, it ain't working anywhere in the house.

I have been floating ice bags pretty much the whole day and still got a fan blowing across the surface.

Temp went up to 85.6, that's the highest it's ever been.

I hope to get the ac fixed soon.
 
Just fine here in NC, even with 107 degrees at 5 PM the last 4 days...
 
My 2 SW are fine but they are downstairs, which is a walkout basement actually.
 
I've been running the AC non-stop up here during the day and have added like 40 bucks to the electricity bill this month.. But then electricity is cheap up here.. I only pay like 0.07500 per kwh
 
instead of floating bags couldnt you make RO ice cubes? for one it would keep the tank cool and for 2 it would help in topping off...and ice trays run at wat 50 cents a peice per tray...and yea they take time to freeze but if u get 3-4-5 of em u could make em in cycles? just a newbie thought
 
clown-lover said:
I've been running the AC non-stop up here during the day and have added like 40 bucks to the electricity bill this month.. But then electricity is cheap up here.. I only pay like 0.07500 per kwh
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I'm glad you think $0.075 / kwh is cheap... I use to think so, too, as I've seen people post on RC that they pay $0.12 - $0.15 / kwh, while we pay like $0.09 / kwh. Then, I found out my parents only pay $0.0475 / kwh in Ohio. I always wondered how they could run so much at their house (2 extra freezers out in the garage for starters), yet never have an electric bill anywhere near ours. Come to find out, they use almost as many kwh as we do, they just pay 1/2 as much for it.
 
fsn77 said:
I'm glad you think $0.075 / kwh is cheap... I use to think so, too, as I've seen people post on RC that they pay $0.12 - $0.15 / kwh, while we pay like $0.09 / kwh. Then, I found out my parents only pay $0.0475 / kwh in Ohio. I always wondered how they could run so much at their house (2 extra freezers out in the garage for starters), yet never have an electric bill anywhere near ours. Come to find out, they use almost as many kwh as we do, they just pay 1/2 as much for it.
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Well I think its cheap because its half the cost I paid in Oklahoma.. Also ND is a large electric generation state since we have all that nice lignite coal etc.. That and with the new wind mill production that we are doing.. Its not going to go that high.. In ND the wind always blows.. (There is a joke but I don't know how appropriate it will be to post).. In fact we count the number of still air days we have.. LOL

But I'm still not going to complain at 7 1/2 cents.
 
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