Looking for a chiller for 150gallon tank

[slcw]

Hi s'pore friends.

am from Malaysia, Would wish to seek ur feedback on the choice of chillers.

I planning a 4x2x2.5 tank. Plan to use 2 x 150watts MH to light my aquarium. I estimate the rest of equipment would generate about 200watts.

my wife has decided not to go for split unit chiller (outdoors suggested by Deep_end)

therefore I am left with box chillers. I have been to Teco and resun website. But cannot find JBJ Artica.

I have the following options:

Teco RA680 (but have no idea on th HP)

Resun CL650 (understand it is not efficient, myself already using CL280)

JBJ Artica 1/3HP?

Please share ur experiences with justifications. Thank u.

slcw

[weileong]

Artical website

[slcw]

thanks...

any one? has comments?

[terryansimon]

I have a tank identical in size and lighting setup with yours. and its chilled by a Teco RA680. pretty efficient if you ask me...only because the hot exhaust is actually being blown out of the window *I elevated the chiller by putting it on an un-used table of sorts*

as for cooling time/run time...I didn't bother to go calculate. so I'm not the dood with the figures, but I can tell you that its pretty effiecient in cooling down my entire setup to 26deg! (=