temperature controller

[Hondanation09]

Getting excited as my delivery of new biocube HQI is set for Monday
Just fine tuning things now and trying to get everything right from the initial setup. I am thinking I would like a temperature controller like this one:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2954/blueline.jpg

My question is can any heater plug into this? Cannot seem to find any info on this. And it looks like 3 cords coming out of it...Why?

 

[Audiew]

Getting excited as my delivery of new biocube HQI is set for Monday
Just fine tuning things now and trying to get everything right from the initial setup. I am thinking I would like a temperature controller like this one:

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2954/blueline.jpg

My question is can any heater plug into this? Cannot seem to find any info on this. And it looks like 3 cords coming out of it...Why?

I'm not sure that is totally necessary. I have the HQI version as well and just have the heater in chamber 1. I know some people say you will have problems with heat from the lamp but I haven't had any issues at all.

 

[Hondanation09]

isnt your skimmer in chamber 1? Or not running one perhaps? I was thinking heater in chamber with pump?

 

[Audiew]

isnt your skimmer in chamber 1? Or not running one perhaps? I was thinking heater in chamber with pump?

I'm not running the skimmer, your weekly water changes will take care of that for you! Convict has run one for a long time without getting a dirty cup of skimate and just quit running his.

 

[Convict2161]

Yes I have had a skimmer Tunze9002 in chamber 2 for 9 months and it hasn't skimmed anything but my nerves. Took it out and water parameters have not changed.

I do 5 gallon water changes once a week and that seems to be working just fine. My tank is doing very well (knock on wood)

 

[22engine]

Convict If you keep knocking on wood you will break something lol. But yes there isnt a need for a skimmer. Go with the media basket and fuge in chamber 2 and check out convicts biocube info thread I wrote up a little something on how to make the fuge work. Thanks to convict of course I was just the one to try it before he threw out his skimmer. Now I have pods growing like mad it seems. I can't stick my hand in the back without getting pods on me