Heaters for big tanks.

[MyGiants]

74-76F is fine. That is where my tank is in my 300g. I also run 3 300watters and my tank is in my house. But I don't heat my house to expensive. It gets cold probably like your basement. Temp may rise a little higher during full lights on during the day. But settles around 74-75 over the night.

 

[wild bill]

You could put that white styrafoam insulation around the rubber maid and get a stock water heater that floats and put a guard around it to protect the fish. The only thing is I don't know how warm it will make the tank that heater may make it to warm or not enough and I am not sure if they are adjustable.

 

[Pharaoh]

You could switch up to a titanium and a controller.

 

[aclockworkorange]

They make like 1000w titanium heaters.

 

[screaminleeman]

I saved my water bed heater and built it underneath the plastic pond that I built out back into my pool deck. This is TOTALLY outdoor and has remained uncovered all winter and the water temperature has remained steady at 20 Celsius. I do have two 300 W generic internal heaters in there also.

Like I say, it has been a B.... of a cold winter but my outdoor pond (~160G) has yet to drop below 20 C.

One major drawback that I have encountered is the need to add water two to three times weekly now from evaporation into freezing ultra dry air!

 

[nfored]

I had 3 300 watt on my 220 in my basement and I could never get the tank about 76-78 with both the tank and the sump covered. When I had the sump uncovered I was getting about 74. My problem was my glass sump, when I put a thermomitor in the acrylic tank and glass sump, the sump was colder.

 

[supergourami]

can you post a pic of the tank please

 

[Paroon]

Pick of tank is in my gallery. I'm not sure how to upload pictures to forum. Hit the insert image and it wants a web link. pics are on my hard drive. But yea i'm going with an inline 1000 watt I think on this. The link I put up sells heaters from 1k to 18k watts. The titanium with control would be cool but I've never had one of those. What is a good place to order them from / also good brand.

 

[fobrinkle]

CHeck kensfish.com for a heater. You should at least use some styrofoam board for a cover. It would be easy to take off and put on whenever you are down there. It would save a lot of heat. Insulation is your friend.

 

[derekp]

Buy a 1000 watt titanium heater with a controller. Also wrap your rubbermaid container with the pink insulation from home depot or lowes. I use 2 1000 watt heaters and insulation on my 700 gallon stock tank in the garage and when it was 19 F in the garage the tank was still at 81 F. Now the weather is a constant 60 F and the tank heaters barely even turn on.