boiled tank

[wasabi]

while installing my new refugium i accidentally bumped the thermostat on my titanium heater up to 92 degrees. i caught it at 90, and started bringing the temp down. is this high enough to kill my inhabitants

 

[Mouse]

80 is critical, supposedly. You wont see half the damage for at least a couple of days though. Red leg hermets seem to be hit the worst by temperature, and watch for bleaching on corals. I have seen my tank hit 80 a few times before i got my fan. Everything except the hermets were ok. A little worsefor wear though, but within a week my corals were looking there usual bad ass pumped up tenticled lovelys.

 

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Your inhabitants should be fine. If you think about it on the reef in the wild the temp can exceed 90 degrees for days.
My reef temp is between 82-86 degrees with times it will reach 90 or above in the summer for a day or two and everything is fine in my tank. JMO Johnny

 

[rBeOeBf]

Everyone's tanks seems to react a little different. Mine hit 90 a couple of days ago and I think I may have lost my leather coral. It's looking very white and shrunken. My xenia and green star polyps weren't happy either, but they look like they will recover.

Bob

 

[Nathan1]

My tank hit 91F, for a few hours during a heat wave two days ago. Nothing died, no ill effects. This might have something to do with me keeping my tank hot on a regular basis. I keep my temp 84-86F (not by choice). Ideally I'd keep my tank at 80-82F, but...


-Nathan

 

[cindywennin]

I am interested in knowing how everyone keeps their tanks cool without the use of a chiller. Are central air and fans enough? My tank generally stays between 78-82 and I haven't noticed any unhappy residents at the higher end of the scale.
Cindy

 

[purple_tang2001]

central air and a fan between the pendants works for me, on those days where's it's not quite warm enough, I'll throw a frozen bottle of water in the sump,

 

[jimbo]

An open tank with halides suspended over it stays pretty cool, IME. You can hit it with a fan, but evaporation really takes off. I have a tank with a semi-close PC canopy and another with 250W halide pendant. The PC tank runs much hotter.