Heating a big tank?

[NEistingray]

Hi there guy's the tank I currently have is in a warm room so does not need much wattage at all to raise the temperature, however my new tank will be in a place where the ambient temp is around 17C, I've worked out I need around 1000 watts to raise the tank up to a suitable temperature, however I can only find one 1000W heater and its on ebay, to be honest I don't trust much stuff from ebay so was wondering what you guy's use to raise the temperature, I'd like to go the route of two 500W heaters so that if one goes wrong my rays aren't fried! So does anyone have any links on what I could use to achieve this?

Thanks.

 

[Ray'Oconner]

How big of a tank are u talking about..?? Pond or regular glass tanks..
Fibre glass tanks..?? Type of filtration.. Details..
U can throw in heaters to the where the rays are..
As long as they are covered.. Or if u have a sump..
Pleace them inside them sump.. It all depends on the size of ur tank..
U can run from 1000w to 3 500w.. as long they get the job done..
Heater temp can be set.. unless u set it to 35 degrees cel.. ur rays wont be fried..

 

[Nic]

i would do multiple smaller heaters, this way if one fails your still covered. 3 or 4 500w heaters would be what i would do.

 

[B_IN_SD]

i would do multiple smaller heaters, this way if one fails your still covered. 3 or 4 500w heaters would be what i would do.

X 2 and stagger the settings by 1-2 deg. so they both dont kick on at the same time.

 

[johno27]

I would go with 3 300 watt jagers or 4 if you like best heater I have ever owned hands down. But I have never seen them above 300 watts

 

[NEistingray]

Hi guy's the tank will be 84" x 30" x 24", if I run 3 x Fluval E series 300W, do you think this will be enough?

 

[smitty03281964]

I would not use 1 heater that is a 1000w. I would break it down to two 500w heaters or three 300w heaters. The reason is if that 1 heater breaks which happened to me before you will have nothing heating that water. The chance of both 500w heaters or all 300w heaters breaking at once is not going to happen. My heaters of choice are the Visi Therm and Eheim. But 2 years ago a bought an Aquaen heaters and it has performed exceptionally well. So that also would be a choice of mine.

 

[steve_b]

Hi guy's the tank will be 84" x 30" x 24", if I run 3 x Fluval E series 300W, do you think this will be enough?

My tank is the same size as yours and I run 2 x 300w Jager heaters and they do the job spot on. My tank is acrylic so holds its temp better than a glass one would though

 

[T1KARMANN]

i would run 2 heaters without themostats then connect them to exturnal stats

run 2 x 500w heaters with there own exturnal stats its so much easyer to control

 

[Just Toby]

The Fluvals e is a good heater. I do not like visi therm as have had seals fail on quite a few. I use the fluval e, an inline heater on my backup external plus another Hagen. The Hagen and fluval are in the sump. All are on different plug circuits just in case a fuse goes and I have an alarm set on my aquatronica to chime if the temps sways by 5 degrees either way and the aquatronica can turn off one in the event of failure but not all in case the computer fails too.