Cooling water before adding to aquariums, how do you do it?

I've been struggling with this, I have no idea how to do it efficiently and quickly. Is there any machione that can help with this? The temprature of my water out of the tap in summer goes out at 85F in the night, and up to 95-98F in the day! Needles to say, I'm going to shock my fish if I pour the water change with these temperatures.

What's I've been doing is prefill several juggs of water a night before and let them get to room Temp. for one day (down to 76-78F). But as I get more and more aquariums, this is getting very slow and cumbersome. Inow have 5 jugs precooling almost every day! And with my 100g tank that I'm setting up soon for my oscar, I would have to have like 8 more jugs lol, which would be ridiculous. I need to find a solution to this!

In winter it is so easy cause I just mix water from the boiler, but I have no idea what to do right now in summer. Any suggestions? What do you guys that live in hot environments do?

Just an example, I filled these jugs and brought them inside about 6 hours ago. They were at 95F, they have gone down but still not enough lol.

Also, just for jiggles, check my temperature in a normal summer day over here LOL.

 

Just do smaller water changes at night.

 

use ice bags to cool the water. Or you can use ice as-is, if the ice is the same water you use for the tank. You can also use ice bags to cool your tanks when they get too hot. Of course, don’t put ice in direct contact with the tank, but I don’t see why you can’t directly put it in a container with intended WC water

 

Up the size of your storage container. A 100 litre wheelie bin can just be moved with 80 litres of water. A 200 litre wheelie bin will see you right for a while.

 

Up the size of your storage container. A 100 litre wheelie bin can just be moved with 80 litres of water. A 200 litre wheelie bin will see you right for a while.View attachment 716054

Been thinking of that, but how to you pump out the water? Do you use a pond pump or something? I bought one from ebay and it couldn't move the water more than a meter high haha

 

Yes I use a 2400 submersible pond pump .

With a simple tap I can turn the water off while the pump is running and move to the next tank.

 

I use this pump I ordered from amazon MQ 210-800GPH Submersible Water Pump(15-40W) with Handle.
It pulls water out of my 55 gallon fast. I have to keep an eye on it because I only want to change about 50%.

When adding water I use frozen water bottles laying inside the tank. Then I slowly add water allowing the water bottles time to cool down the water for the tank. But right now my tap water during the day only gets up to 85+°F. In the 55 gallon I use eight frozen bottles and then have to continuing adding a little more water after taking the bottles out because they displace water.