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festus · 04/29/2006, 06:13 PM

I would only consider this in emergency situations. Its hard to regulate how quickly it would cool the tank. Also its very hard to regulate when to start cooling the tank. Its just not a very stable way to do things.

I did have an emergency situation a good while back and didn't have frozen water bottles handy. I did have some frozen vegetables in the freezer and they were in plastic bags so I tossed them in.

Figuring the plastic kept the water out of the vegetables I put them back in the freezer. Later when eating the frozen peas we could not quite place the odd flavor in them and wondered until my wife recalled I had put them in the aquarium. I guess that bag had a hole in it somewhere.

I'm still in trouble over that one........... ;-)

04/29/2006, 06:13 PM	#4
festus Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Carol Stream Posts: 195	I would only consider this in emergency situations. Its hard to regulate how quickly it would cool the tank. Also its very hard to regulate when to start cooling the tank. Its just not a very stable way to do things. I did have an emergency situation a good while back and didn't have frozen water bottles handy. I did have some frozen vegetables in the freezer and they were in plastic bags so I tossed them in. Figuring the plastic kept the water out of the vegetables I put them back in the freezer. Later when eating the frozen peas we could not quite place the odd flavor in them and wondered until my wife recalled I had put them in the aquarium. I guess that bag had a hole in it somewhere. I'm still in trouble over that one........... ;-)