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How many icecubes do you intend to put into the tank? The ice will melt and increase your water volume while decreasing the salinity.

Dropping icecubes into the tank won't have a signifiant impact on the temperature.

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  AquaRa said:
so that means i can drop ice-cubes into the tank but at the same time adding salt to compensate for the salinity loss of the water? ;)

it doesn't only lowers salinity but you have to be careful of the PH as well. Ices cubes are only for the time being keeping the temperature down. ;)

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  AquaRa said:
so that means i can drop ice-cubes into the tank but at the same time adding salt to compensate for the salinity loss of the water? ;)

You can't do that. If you add more volume of water through ice than the evaporation, your tank will eventually overflow. Adding salt will result in a increase in salinity over time because the salt doesn't leave the system through evaporation.

Corals require a stable temperature more than a momentary cool temperature. The temperature and salinity fluctuations will stress the corals if you keep dumping in ice.

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how to make the dry ice cool the water? :erm:

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Dry ice?!?!? :shock: Do you know what dry ice is? It's solid carbon dioxide!

It will drop your pH and asphyxiate everything in the tank. Your tank will be one big calcium reactor.

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Dry ice?!?!? :shock: Do you know what dry ice is? It's solid carbon dioxide!

It will drop your pH and asphyxiate everything in the tank. Your tank will be one big calcium reactor.

That would be quite a sight would'nt it? :eyebrow::eyebrow::eyebrow:

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last time i use to drop 2 of the regular ice kachang dupperware of ice into my 2 feet. the temp hardly drop more then a degree....after awhile i drop the ideal. ice can be used as if were topping up water, so nothing is gonna change.

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