I've been experimenting with ice, tubing, fans in order to cool my terrarium, but I'm having little success. I'm trying to germinate tuberous drosera, and need to keep the temperature cool all the time, not just at night. So.. to make a long story short, I won't explain what didn't work, but my ideas for a solution that will.
I'm planning on keeping 3 gallon jugs of ice in a 10 gallon aquarium with water thats in cooler next to the terrarium. From there, I would use my spare aquarium pump to push water through tubing into a heater core ( I can get one for $38 ). A fan mounted to the heater core would push the room air into the terrarium through the heatercore. Simple enough, but would this work?? The terrarium is 48" x 11" x 12". Room temp is 70-75 F on average, and I would prefer to lower this by 10 F on a consistent basis. I'm hoping the 3 gallons ice in the tank would provide enough cooling capacity to work for a few days on its own... kind of a short-term automated setup.
I have read up on previous articles in this forum; saw terms like peltier cells, heaterblock, waterblock. (the last 2 I don't know what they are).
Any advice? I would appreciate any suggestions.
thanks,
Homer
I'm planning on keeping 3 gallon jugs of ice in a 10 gallon aquarium with water thats in cooler next to the terrarium. From there, I would use my spare aquarium pump to push water through tubing into a heater core ( I can get one for $38 ). A fan mounted to the heater core would push the room air into the terrarium through the heatercore. Simple enough, but would this work?? The terrarium is 48" x 11" x 12". Room temp is 70-75 F on average, and I would prefer to lower this by 10 F on a consistent basis. I'm hoping the 3 gallons ice in the tank would provide enough cooling capacity to work for a few days on its own... kind of a short-term automated setup.
I have read up on previous articles in this forum; saw terms like peltier cells, heaterblock, waterblock. (the last 2 I don't know what they are).
Any advice? I would appreciate any suggestions.
thanks,
Homer