Res water cooler?

I never ran into this problem but ppl been telling me that sometimes the res gets a little too warm. What's a good way to cool down your water that's not too expensive that u don't have to blow thousan of dollars

I heard people using frozen gatorade bottles

That wouldn't be that stable and that's a lot of bottles to stock up lol

Been here, done that. I've gone the water bottle route and it works, but it sucks having to put them in every 2-4 hours.

I even made a water chiller...I mean its a pretty basic idea....run water in a circle in something that's cold and then pump it out....so I got a deep freezer ($50 craigslist), 100' of some hose, and a water pump. Just coil up that hose in the freezer, cut some holes in the freezer to string the hose through, and put the water pump on a cycle timer or just straight on. It took quite a bit of temperature monitoring of the freezer and water reservoir. But I'm actually typing on top of the freezer right now with my laptop...works as a good table too!

I've also bought some 1/10 aqua chillers (325$ new). They're the best if you can afford it. I need a couple more...but for now, this freezer is going to have to do. I can put two hoses (for 2 res's) in this freezer and it works great.

NOTE: you gotta clean that hose out though...stuff builds up in there and can't be clean. I run 3% h202 through it for a while at least once a month.

Use a ice chest or the 5 gallon sport coolers. I used the 5 gallon sport coolers and my temps never went over 68 degrees...Just cool the water down with frozen water bottles once a week and that was it good for 7 days.

BeaverHuntr said:

Use a ice chest or the 5 gallon sport coolers...Just cool the water down with frozen water bottles

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This works very well and isn't very $$

Yup DWC COOLER

May raise your humidity or just not work in certain situations, but evaporation will drop the water temp, so if you can get a fan blowing across the water it helps to drop the temp several degrees.