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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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