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#1 Ryan-w

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Posted 26 June 2016 - 09:55 AM

Hey guys. I'm setting up my breeding rack for my discus and trying to decide what to do with heating. I have 4 80lt tanks that I've drilled and have them all flowing into a 170lt tank on the bottom of the rack, if i just put a heater in there and set it higher than what i want do you think that will be enough to keep my 4 tanks with stock warm or should I have 5 heaters one in every tank?

#2 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 26 June 2016 - 03:36 PM

I would grab the biggest heater say 300 w and just crank it up as 5 heaters will chew through the power

#3 Buccal

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Posted 26 June 2016 - 09:47 PM

Thought of insulating the room and searching options on space heaters. ?????

#4 chocky

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 01:53 PM

i had a look into this a bit too. have you considered insulating just the rack? bit ugly but may say you some money in the long run.

#5 Ryan-w

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 03:31 PM

Yeah thought about that. Its a big open room so it will take too long to heat. Happy to stick with heaters in the tank. My 1 ehime i have in there at the moment is keeping the tank at 27 but is on all the time. I need to crank it a little hight to be closer to 30. Tossing up if it will be better to have 2 heaters

#6 chocky

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 03:44 PM

Yeah thought about that. Its a big open room so it will take too long to heat. Happy to stick with heaters in the tank. My 1 ehime i have in there at the moment is keeping the tank at 27 but is on all the time. I need to crank it a little hight to be closer to 30. Tossing up if it will be better to have 2 heaters

yeah i'd definitely have more than 1 since you're heating quite a few tanks. minimum 2 or even 3.

the more you have the less harder each one has to work i guess.

havings lids on will help keep the heat in too :)

#7 malawiman85

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 04:24 PM

Get a big heater (600 - 1000 WATT). 2 heaters are a pain because thermostats are set slightly differently. 1 heater removes that problem.

#8 Ryan-w

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Posted 27 June 2016 - 05:29 PM

I ended up adding another 300w ehime in the tank. Worst case i can use it somewhere else.




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