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Re: [GSAS-Member] Unable to properly Heat my tank



You may consider putting a thermometer right next to one of the  
heaters and see if it's at the temperature that you want.  If it is,  
you have a flow problem.  If it isn't try turning up the heaters.  If  
your house is particularly cool as well, that could be the problem.  I  
ran 1x 250 watt heater in my 29 gallon tank, but it was full of rocks,  
not plants.  It kept it at 80º with no problems.  I used Visitherm  
Stealth heaters (find them cheap online somewhere, print out the page,  
then head into petsmart and they'll price match!)


On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Kypros Hostetter wrote:

> I have a heavily planted 29 gallon tank and have been operating a new
> heater rated at 55 gallons.  I cannot seem to keep the temperature  
> at 76
> degress, it keeps it at around 74-73 degrees. Today I added a second
> heater, in the other corner and even with it, it is still maintaining
> the temperature lower than I want.   I do not think both heaters are
> malfunctioning.  I suspect that the heaters, in the back of the  
> tank, do
> not receive sufficient water flow to heat the whole tank.  In other
> words, I think they heat up the water around them which is not
> circulating sufficiently in the tank.  I have an Eheim 2215 in the  
> tank,
> which should have sufficient flow for the tank size but I wonder if  
> the
> plants inhibit flow enough to cause heating problems. Has anybody else
> had this issue?  If so I will probably put a powerhead in the tank to
> move water around better.
>
> Kypros
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