How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

[PhishPhreek]

I just broke out my electric space heater and pluged it in my fishroom on low......

Used to have an old radiant gas heater that worked even if the power went out, but it got lost in the last move.  

[eklikewhoa]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

I have central a/c-heating.
Tanks have heaters on them as added precaution along with controllers to monitor/controll the temps.

[newb]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

is it possible to put too big of a heater in your tank. i have a 22 gal tank and all i have is a 250 watt heater. is that too big?

[eklikewhoa]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

No such thing since a larger heater will keep it more stabilized and have the power to bring the temps back into desired range faster..... but on the same note if that heater were to flip on you it would have the power to boil the tank and kill everything.


I prefer to use multiple under rated heaters to spread the odds of malfunction between multiple heaters but yet still have the total power to be able to keep things where desired.

All the concerns can be solved with a simple temp controller.

[PhishPhreek]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

There is no such thing as a heater too big.  Just faulty thermostats.  

[liljack]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

I dont have a heater..is this a necessity? my house is warm...

[eklikewhoa]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

If you can keep the room temp stable and new water close there shouldn't be much of a need.

although having a heater would allow you to better control the temp swings and keep things a bit more stable which is always good.

[liljack]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

what is the correct temp range?

[jeebus]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

That all depends on the fish! What type of fish are you keeping?

[liljack]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

I have...
2 blood parrots
10 tiger barbs
2 guaramis
tin foil barb
2 bala sharks
and some other assorted stuff
125 gal


what other fish mix with these anyway if someone knows......I saw tim selling some too....

[eklikewhoa]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

what is the correct temp range?

Most range from 65-89.

[rage]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

is it possible to put too big of a heater in your tank. i have a 22 gal tank and all i have is a 250 watt heater. is that too big?

I would watch the temp the 1st day and make sure you don't have a faulty thermostat. A big heater can heat up a small tank real fast and real high.

Two days ago I had to move some smaller heaters to the 10G fry tanks so I put a 300w on a 20G which I keep 2 Oranda and a school of rasboras.
The next morning the water got real hot, I guess high 80 or 90, all the rasboras disappeared. We were still trying to figure what happened to them and one oranda spit out half a skeleton of a rasbora and that was the end of that.

I removed the heater and this morning the water got real cold even though I had central heat set at 75F.
The oranda did not seem to mind one way or the other.  :)

[76dragon]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

The oranda should be able to handle the cold with no problems. I just ordered a few 400 W Hydor's and a 300 W Stealth last week . Still waiting on them to come in. Luckly I had a heater in the ponds outside. It was 36 over here this morning.


Brrrrrr...

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

I like to give my fish hugs..

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: How do you keep your fish warm on a cold winter night ?

I only run heaters in tanks near a window, or on the groud floor level.

I like to keep my water 75 to 82 it starts dipping below that I add a heater