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DOMINATOR

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My temp fluctuates between 76-80, and I can't seem to keep it stable... Is that terrible for my fish? How can I steady it???
 
In the wild they face much stronger changes in temperature.76-80 Doesn't sound like a problem.
 
is this a reef, or a fish only? i don't think they face temp changes like that in the wild. why do we float bags of new fish then? why not just toss em in?
what i would do to correct this fluctuation is to turn your heater up to 80.
 
In the wild they face much stronger changes in temperature.76-80 Doesn't sound like a problem.


i disagree with that. the ocean is such a vast body of water, to fluctuate that much in a day is a mass melting of the ice caps, watch the movie "The day after tomorrow" temp changes liek that would cause a global climate shift

dominator what size system are you running and what wattage of heater? i think its sometimes better to have a slighly undersized heater because when a heater is on its fully on so it totally heats up untill the water is a set temp and doesn't go back on untill it gets to a set temp. my water fluctuates maybe .5 degrees so its pretty stable and my heater is a 100watt glass aqueon that i got with my tank kit
 
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My system is about 280 gallons and I have a 300 watt heater, I just recently added another heater in so my original wouldn't struggle as much....seems to be doing better, maybe 1 degree change between night and daytime
 
You're gonna need way more heaters than that, a single 300w heater can typically only heat up to 80G tanks. That explains the temp swings
 
probably 3 or 4 of them.

thats alot of power though, i wonder id there is a boiler system for larger aquariums
 
thats alot of juice sucked down with that bad boy. i'd really like to see if a small natural gas pool or hot tub heater would work on soemthing that size
 
Actually, I just bought a 150 watt eheim to add with my original 100 watter. Things are stable, morning and night!
 
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