Help w/ new ray junk

[Nic]

hang them in there... keep them as far off the bottom as possible... most burns occur cause people have the heaters on there side on the bottom of the tank... and if you have to put them in PVC put a good power head on one side so it moves the water well...

 

[Nic]

I heat a 300 gal eight foot tank with 4 250w stealths. It's good to have the back up just in case. If one fails, one 250w stealth is not gonna be enough to heat a 500gal pond unless you are in Arizona and a heater is a moot point in the first place. It all comes down to the amount that you need to increase the tanks temperature from the ambient room temperature. The higher the discrepancy between the two temperatures, the more watts you are gonna need.

one held the temp quite well actually.... and it was last winter

 

[abortedsoul]

I used the plastic from a syphon tube and drilled 3/8 holes in them it worked great!

How did you attach it to the heater?

 

[bbrtmad]

I used a piece of 2" pvc cut about 3 inchs longer then the heater and drilled holes in it. Then placed the heater inside.

 

[abortedsoul]

I used a piece of 2" pvc cut about 3 inchs longer then the heater and drilled holes in it. Then placed the heater inside.

The heater didn't melt the PVC?

 

[JD7.62]

I dont understand how the heaters wont work in your sump. How high did you have them?

I had three 300watt stealth heaters in my 29gallon sump doing about 700gph heated my 125 in a 55degree basement just fine last winter.

You are going to need to skin that white furry thing real good before putting it in your tank though.

 

[turkeyboy85]

i have also put heaters hanging in the tank with no problems... just make sure the rays cant rest thier disk on them and you will be fine, they wont burn themselves if they are only swimming up the wall on top of it

 

[abortedsoul]

I dont understand how the heaters wont work in your sump. How high did you have them?

I had three 300watt stealth heaters in my 29gallon sump doing about 700gph heated my 125 in a 55degree basement just fine last winter.

You are going to need to skin that white furry thing real good before putting it in your tank though.

The water showers down through cold air from the bucket, after it travels through the 5 gallon bucket from the waterfall above. It is above the tank, and showers down through a bucket- I'm not sure if sump is the right word, but I don't really know what else to call it. It's a planted waterfall tank, I guess.

 

[abortedsoul]

hang them in there... keep them as far off the bottom as possible... most burns occur cause people have the heaters on there side on the bottom of the tank... and if you have to put them in PVC put a good power head on one side so it moves the water well...

I have the strongest automatic rotating pump I could find; It's a Powersweep 228 (270gph) and blows right over the heater. Would that do?

Note: I've also got a rio 2100+, but I've not gone about getting a prefilter for it yet. I've got the box right here, so I might just try and hang it in there, too.

 

[PF94]

The water showers down through cold air from the bucket, after it travels through the 5 gallon bucket from the waterfall above. It is above the tank, and showers down through a bucket- I'm not sure if sump is the right word, but I don't really know what else to call it. It's a planted waterfall tank, I guess.

It's really a bio-tower type design.