The water in my grow out tank for my Texas is cold! The heater light keeps going off and on. Is my heater like dead or something?
Help heater troubles =(
- Thread starter Sancha
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You get what you pay for though. I guess tomorrow I'm gonna have to go out tomorrow and buy me a heater.
i never have much luck with heaters working to what the temp guage says. ive got a titanium heater set at 84 just to keep the tank at 74. i have two jager heaters set at 72 that keeps the tanks at 80. i dont run heaters. the only reason im running these 3 is because those tanks are in the coldest room of the house which stays around 64 in the winter.
When you say cold, what is the temp of the tank? What size is the tank? What is the wattage of the heater? Most importantly do you have a thermometer? I use stelth heaters, but I agree the temp set on the heater doesn't always match the temp of the tank, that's why a thermometer is important, you may have to adjust the setting on the heater up or down. Installing the heater at a 45 degree angle helps as the heat wouln't rise directly into the thermostat and shut the heater off before the water heats up to the set point. Sometimes two heaters are required to get the correct temperature and good insurance as a back up incase one stops working. On my Ram tank I have two thermometers one digital and one old fashioned hang on so I can make sure the tank stays at 84.