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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.
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
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
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