How Do You Make An Aquarium Chiller?
Maintaining the right temperature in your aquarium is difficult during hot summer months. Make sure your fish stays comfortable inside its habitat by ensuring the water is not too hot or too cold. This can be accomplished using an aquarium chiller. A drop-in aquarium chiller consists of a few coils inside a sump. Making your own aquarium chiller can be a challenge, but it also can save you a lot of money. Remove the frame from your aquarium’s old air conditioner using a screwdriver. This will expose the evaporator coils found inside the air conditioner. Take out the aluminum fins found at the bottom using pliers. You will see the copper pipes, which serve as the main component where the heat is trapped in. Use sandpaper to sand the pipes for your aquarium chiller. Apply epoxy resin on the pipes by pouring the resin in a zigzag pattern and using a foam paintbrush to coat it evenly throughout the pipe’s body. Leave the resin to dry for an hour. Measure the coils’ length using measuring t
