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  • How Hot Is Too Hot?

    How warm can a planted tank get before it starts effecting the plants?

  • #2
    Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

    The cooler the better....algae tends to love the warm water.


    I tried to keep mine at about 76-78
    700g Mini-Monster tank

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    • #3
      Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

      ok.
      My setup is driving me crazy w/ the temps. Have a 29gal heavily planted
      with a Current 65*2 fixture. It has two fans but they drive me crazy with how much
      noise they produce. W/O the fans the tanks seem to peek around 82F - 83F.

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      • #4
        Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

        Is the fixture on legs? Are you using a heater? How about a canopy?
        "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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        • #5
          Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

          Yes, no, and no...

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          • #6
            Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

            Why not leave the fans on then?
            700g Mini-Monster tank

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            • #7
              Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

              I'm going to try putting the fans on a timer so when I might not be around they will come on.
              I don't use the fans @ all times because of the ridiculously loud noise they produce.

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              • #8
                Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                Well the fans are there to help keep the bulbs cool....not the tank...the extreme heat will shorten the life of the bulbs/ballast if you are not turning them on when the lights come on.
                700g Mini-Monster tank

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                • #9
                  Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                  That's really strange, though, that the tank is that warm. What is your normal room temp?
                  "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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                  • #10
                    Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                    Included Internal fans implied that this fixture will produce lots of heat. I would not turn off the fan. Is it in your bedroom?
                    100 gal- java fern windelov,anubia petite,xmas moss, crypt,val, sword, riccia fluitans, Sagittaria subulata
                    30 gal:e.tenellus,hygrophila wavy,acicularis vivapara,Limnophila aquatica,Hygrophila corymbosa,Hydrocotyle(praecox rainbow,Celestial PD

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                    • #11
                      Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                      Originally posted by Mzungu";p="
                      What is your normal room temp?
                      72F @ night and 78F durring the day.

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                      • #12
                        Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                        Originally posted by thomas";p="
                        Is it in your bedroom?
                        Yep

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                        • #13
                          Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                          look into T5's.
                          700g Mini-Monster tank

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                          • #14
                            Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                            Depending on the type of fan you are using it sounds like to me that the oil in the bearings have left the system.  You could re-oil the system and get it back to working order and not make all the noise.

                            What fish do Jesper have
                            180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
                            110
                            Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
                            58 S. Decorus

                            "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher

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                            • #15
                              Re: How Hot Is Too Hot?

                              I'll have to give that a try

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