Well yesterday my tank got to 81.7 so I decided to flip the lights off and then later in the day (when it was down to 80) I flipped them back on and just kept them on a couple more hours to compenstate.
Shouldn't be as warm today though so I think I'm good.
Air keeps everything nice and cool...around 75 inside, and my heater is off. With the halides/t5's running 10 hours, the tank is a nice 77...right where I like it. All the corals look fantastic.
Even Seattle has been hot. I was on vacation and called to check in on the tank yesterday. It was 83 at 8:00 A.M. I can only imagine the temps it reached the day before. 8O It is supposed to cool down to 90 today so maybe I can run MH again.
normally Houston is so hot, but we must be having a cool spell... house temp is 65, and tank is ~77... then again it's not august yet.. :roll: My chiller hasn't come on in I don't know how long, I have a fan blowing across the tank top. It was a high of 98 last week and still this fan works like a chiller.