I got home from work this moring and saw my pride and joy 150 reef tank temp on my chiller reading 71 degrees. The heater is set at 78 degrees. The dam thing broke less than year old 100 bucks down the drain. I have sps and lps fish and inverts the coral seems to be expaning the fish look stressed. I'm i at risk for loosing everything. I have a back up heater at set it at 77 i do not want to jump the temp to much . any hting else I can do once again thanks guys
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- Thread starter bmwalley
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while 71 is low, not sure that it is critical.... i know a drop in water temp can encourage ick, not sure if 71 is low enough to make you worry bout that though
Thats why it always a good idea to have a backup heater just in case your main one fails. I currently have two heaters in my sump.
where does everyone keep there temp at. i keep mine hovering 74-78 range except in the summer it goes up to the lower 80s. is 74 too low. 71 isn't that far from 74. i only have softies and a few lps.
i try to keep my temp at 77 78 all the time just bought a nice chiller for real cheap. It practically was given to me for what it really cost.
by the way how did everything work out for ya did you bring the temp back to where it was
71 is nothing. I have had my tank come down to 72 and there be no issue. Normally run it at 74-76 in the winter (no heater) and 79-81 in the summer (no chiller)
Letting the tank get cool is less of an issue than running too hot. Now if your tank was in the 85 range, that is an issue, cooler is good.
As everyone said, raise it slow and you would be amazed as to what temps the corals can withstand on the cool side.
Cool is good, hot is BAD!
Letting the tank get cool is less of an issue than running too hot. Now if your tank was in the 85 range, that is an issue, cooler is good.
As everyone said, raise it slow and you would be amazed as to what temps the corals can withstand on the cool side.
Cool is good, hot is BAD!
Ive actually had my tank drop down to 72 because my heater plug came out of the socket when i was toying around underneath the tank... Everything turned out to be fine... All you have to do is slowly bring up the temp over the course of the day which was already mentioned above... I normally keep my tank at around 82 degrees all year long so believe me I experienced a rather large decrease and everything turned out ok...
Brian
Brian
