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I'm not sure exactly when. I need to save up enough to get it. I should have enough soon for at least the powerhead. And I discovered that I need a new heater too... Yay, another thing to buy! :/
Actually if your room temp is ~75 you should be fine without a heater. Depending in what lights you have. If they're led, it may be too cool, but I think if your steady at 75 that's perfectly fine.
But remember that in some situations, house temperatures will alternate between seasons. In winter, we only heat the house to 65 and in summer, it's up at 75. It may be good now but when winter comes the temperature might drop.
Our house is a really old farm house. It was built in 1888, and has very bad installation. So the temperature in my room, where the tank will be, is not stable at all. On my other ten gallon in my room, I use a heater and it keeps it pretty stable.
That's what I meant by steady. If its always atleast 75 and never over 82 your fine. As long as the temp changes are very gradual and aren't over 2 degrees a day it's fine. And you can have 75 in winter and 82 in summer just make sure it's not a sudden increase. They need to acclimate.
Lol, yup. My room gets well over 90 at times. It's terrible! DX luckily the tanks never get that hot. Of course, with the saltwater one, since it's so expensive, I may put a fan blowing at it to make sure it doesn't get too hot. My fw 10 gallon only has 3 harlequin rasboras right now, and they're really hardy, so they can take some change in temp pretty well.
Cool! So, does it have to be an actual chiller, or would fans work? Cause those came up in my search for chillers, and I don't know how I would ever afford a chiller, and I don't think I would get that as a gift... :/