Habitat - Indoor :: Water too warm?

[therizman1]

Ive been watching my water temp, and it has been slowly going up. I dont really use air conditioning in my apt mainly because it doesnt work that well, and it runs the electric bill WAY up. The water temp was hanging around 76 (Reyna and Orion are both young) so I figured that was close enough and they basked regularly. The temp has gone up as the air temp has gone up though, and their water is now around 80-82, is there any way to cool the water back down again? I throw some ice cubes in occassionally to help cool it a little plus they like to push them around the tank and play with them, but they havent helped much. Do they make any sort of water cooling system? Thanks for any and all help... I am mainly just concerned because they are hardly basking anymore at all and I think it is because they have no real reason too since their water is getting so warm.

Oh yeah, I keep it out of direct sunlight too, so it wont heat up anymore than it already is.

Mike

[jenaero]

I know there's some kind of water cooler type thing but I'm not sure what it's called. I think Marisa knows.

[GouzlanTheAmerican]

Those water chillers run around 400 american dollars just to tell you.

[da sAUCE!]

ah just a few cubes? that wont do anything to that volume of water. try a bit more ice than what you've put in.

[marisa]

Yes, chillers are expensive. I've heard of encasing a canister filter in ice/cool packs to help keep the water temp down. I don't think putting a lot of ice cubes in the tank is a good idea. There's a thread somewhere about keeping the water temp down--take a look at some of the other posts.