After, responding to a member's post on keeping his cultures warmer during the winter, it started me thinking again about my problem during the summer. Too hot in the garage, I originally was looking in to a wine cooler with high temps around 75 degrees but all the ones I saw had a high in the range of mid 60s. Looking into the home brew threads I found out that a lot of people use old refrigerators with a temperture controller. They set the fridge to its lowest setting and plug the Fridge to the thermostat. You can use any size fridge or freezer depending on how many cultures you need to make. I plan on using the Zoo Med Hygro Therm because I have a couple, It keeps temps pretty accurate not so good for measuring humidity. I am on the hunt for a used dorm fridge once I find it I will give this a try. Also saw that some will also use the heating and cooling features of the thermostat by mounting a ceramic heat lamp inside the fridge for cold winter days.
Coqui
I do this basic samething, I use a mini fridge in my garage to store all my bugs. In the winter i use a reheostat conencted to a heat bad to keep temps at around 73, and during the summer i take a frozen bottle of water and put it in the morning and it keeps temps in the 70s or so.
My garage on hot days will be over 120. it can reach 100+ for a week outside temps and by placing a large water bottle, im talking less then a gal, in there the temps will stay in the 70's, maybe lows 80s. I have been doing this for 2-3 years and never lost cultures due to heat.
You can set up STC-1000s to run both a heating appliance and a cooling appliance. That might work well for keeping your insects in the garage, and I think they are pretty cheap.
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