Aquarium heater advise

[Gravityreefing]

Hi everyone. I currently have a red line heater with controller 1000 watt for my 180 gallong tank. I will be placing the heater in my sump. Do you think it will be good just having the one or would you have two at 500 watts each.. please feel free on the feed back your impute is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[steve&mari]

I always run 2 on our reefs for backup both set on different outlets off of controller.

 

[redfishbluefish]

I prefer going with two....and both on a controller. Regardless of the brand, all heaters will eventually fail. The controller protects you from the "stuck on" failure.

The two heaters let you know when one dies, but still tries to keep the tank at temperature. So when you see the temp has dropped to 75 degrees, you know one of the heaters has crapped out. Otherwise, you come home to a tank at 69 degrees with now some death.

 

[Gravityreefing]

I prefer going with two....and both on a controller. Regardless of the brand, all heaters will eventually fail. The controller protects you from the "stuck on" failure.

The two heaters let you know when one dies, but still tries to keep the tank at temperature. So when you see the temp has dropped to 75 degrees, you know one of the heaters has crapped out. Otherwise, you come home to a tank at 69 degrees with now some death.

Thanks red and blue I was torn about it all.. Am also be using a reefkeeper lite plus on my tank also..

 

[Gravityreefing]

I always run 2 on our reefs for backup both set on different outlets off of controller.

So you don't run the heaters off your controller. How come wouldn't running them on the reef controllers safer??

 

[steve&mari]

So you don't run the heaters off your controller. How come wouldn't running them on the reef controllers safer??

They do run off of controller I said. We have a rkl plus controller with 2 pc4 outlet strips. I have 2 outlets set for heaters controlled by the temp probe of the controller. That way if 1 fails it's outlet shuts off while the other heaters outlet is still running the 2nd heater. Hopefully that clears up the confusion.