Please HELP.....

Cell · Jul 27, 2020

2x 50% strength heaters FTW!

Biglew11 · Jul 27, 2020

Cell said:
2x 50% strength heaters FTW!

+1 on this

RobB'z Reef · Jul 27, 2020

Jeves360 said:
I have two Hygger 500w heaters. Both in sump, one in fuge the other in skimmer chamber. I only added a second because i felt just one was running at near 100% between 125 gal display and 55 gal sump.

One temp probe is in the sump the other in main display. I pulled the one from the main display when wire managing my T5 Hybrid I iust added.
It was hanging outside behind the tank this morning.

As I am sure most of us do, I check out the tank everyday in the am usually before heading to work. Mainly because I am paranoid and have had previous builds crash overnight, shorted power heads, anemone in power head, water leaks etc. Luckily i was off today and still did my routine check if not this would be another for the books

Well I hope your temps come down without any complications!

Jeves360 · Jul 27, 2020

Cole.mormon said:
Have you deep cleaned the heaters, aka vinegar bath

I have not, tanks only been up for abour 5 months.

Jeves360 · Jul 27, 2020

Biglew11 said:
this is why we like redundancy, my current heaters don't have thermostats so i need to use a controller. i have this plugged into the apex, the controller controls the heater, and the apex is the backup. you can do the same without apex, plug your heaters into a controler, set the heaters thermostat about 2 degrees higher than you want your tank at, set the controller to the temperature you want to run at. both heaters can be plugged into the same controller.

i realize this was a user error, and not trying to bash anyone, and stuff happens, but redundancy may have prevented this.

Thats definitely in future plans. I am actually looking into building a Raspberry Pi controller. Have built and programmed a few
In the past but never as a controller for a reef tank. Should be fun.