300 gallon setup/sump build

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Freshwater4Life said:
Are you able to plug your heaters directly into the temp controller ?
Click to expand...

Yes. I havemt played with it yet keep meaning to set it up on one of my tanks just to get a feel for it but you can order it pre wired and add additional recepticals. I have two recepticals on mine.
Woefulrelic Woefulrelic helped me out with this
 
  • Like
Reactions: Freshwater4Life
jaws7777 said:
Yes. I havemt played with it yet keep meaning to set it up on one of my tanks just to get a feel for it but you can order it pre wired and add additional recepticals. I have two recepticals on mine.
Woefulrelic Woefulrelic helped me out with this
Click to expand...
Cool beans. I'll have to look into that. Never had issues before with my heaters before but since I moved my new setup into my garage I have noticed there's about one degree of play inside my tank from day to day.
 
jaws7777 said:
I planned on keeping the prob in the sump.
Is there a benefit to keeping it in the tank ? I was thinking in the sump it would be easier to move back and forth between the sump and tank periodically just to male sure they match up
Click to expand...

If you keep it in the tank and the pumps kick off, the tank temps won't raise but the sump will. If you have two receptacles then you can do both. Don't wanna cook your fish cause the ranco thinks the temp isn't going up. Glass heaters can be used to help prevent this.
 
Woefulrelic said:
If you keep it in the tank and the pumps kick off, the tank temps won't raise but the sump will. If you have two receptacles then you can do both. Don't wanna cook your fish cause the ranco thinks the temp isn't going up. Glass heaters can be used to help prevent this.
Click to expand...
Aahh this is why i shop here. What do you mean kick,off ? Early not enough coffe yet. Why would the fish cook ?

Yup using aqueon heters hate jagers
 
put everything in the sump. heaters, probes, air pumps, everything goes in the sump. The 3 main benefits of having a sump--taking instruments out of the display tank is one of them.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Def Leppard Hysteria
ragin_cajun said:
put everything in the sump. heaters, probes, air pumps, everything goes in the sump. The 3 main benefits of having a sump--taking instruments out of the display tank is one of them.
Click to expand...

That was my thought... i dont like seeing anything in the tank
 
Only thing in my tank is the three overflows, two returns, a mag-float and two temp probes. I keep the temp probe for my controller in the top right corner of the tank, and I keep a digital thermometer probe in the same spot as a check.

Also, on a side note for anyone looking for a controller, the InkBird 308 gets great reviews over on SimplyDiscus and is only about $35 on Amazon. I am using two of them currently, one to control the temp on my 220 with two 300W AquaTop heaters and one on my son's 10 gallon glofish tank with a 75W AquaTop heater (I recently had his old heater cook all the fish so I'm making sure that never happens again). I like them a lot. They are very easy to program and come prewired with heating and cooling outlets. You can do what I did and put a splitter cord on it to attach multiple heaters. It's complete plug and play.
 
Fish Tank Travis said:
Only thing in my tank is the three overflows, two returns, a mag-float and two temp probes. I keep the temp probe for my controller in the top right corner of the tank, and I keep a digital thermometer probe in the same spot as a check.

Also, on a side note for anyone looking for a controller, the InkBird 308 gets great reviews over on SimplyDiscus and is only about $35 on Amazon. I am using two of them currently, one to control the temp on my 220 with two 300W AquaTop heaters and one on my son's 10 gallon glofish tank with a 75W AquaTop heater (I recently had his old heater cook all the fish so I'm making sure that never happens again). I like them a lot. They are very easy to program and come prewired with heating and cooling outlets. You can do what I did and put a splitter cord on it to attach multiple heaters. It's complete plug and play.
Click to expand...
I can vouch for these they work perfectly.

However I bought the one below as has two heating outputs already on it and no cooling, so no cutting up wires!

image.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom