ECO COOLER
Author: blogger
The need of water movement and light to keep salt water invertebrates and fish requires pumps and lights creating heat in the water column which is not healthy for a stable aquarium environment and leads to coral bleaching and stressed fish. Once again, Deltec has shown the way to reducing water temperature economically in the modern salt and fresh water aquarium.
Economical and Environmentally Friendly
The Eco Cooler is environmentally friendly and economical and can be used for both salt and fresh water aquariums. The principle of the Eco Cooler borrows its technology from water cooling towers used in industrial applications. Water from the aquarium is forced to evaporate which draws latent heat from the water thus cooling it down.
Eco coolers are incredibly cheap to run and are much quieter than a refrigerant cooler. They can be turned on or off using standard temperature controllers.
For example - to achieve 950 watts of cooling:
Refrigerant - 570 watts of electricity.
Eco- cooler - 35 watts of electricity.
It is also possible to use the Eco Cooler in conjunction with a refrigerant cooler, therefore, reducing the size of the electricity bill substantially and being secure in the knowledge that even on the very hottest days of the year the temperature in your aquarium will remain stable.
Daniel Knop, the well known aquarist and author, runs a 2100g system in the basement at his home in Germany.
Daniel fitted one of our biggest Eco Coolers to his system which on our calculations is only specified for aquariums up to 530g
Read here what Daniel Knop thinks of the ECO - Cooler.
*Please note that the EcoCooler does not come with a temperature controller.
