what size heater needed for large tanks??

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Hi there.... I am planning to have three tanks adding up to 1400gal...
what size in line heater(how many watts) would be needed????
The temp. fluctuation would only be about 10 degrees f.... max...
all tanks are connected....
 
A temperature fluctuation of 10F is huge. Keeping it as stable as possible is best. What size tanks are these each, what filtration are you using and what would your lighting be like? For a 500G tank, you would need multiple titanium 500 watt heaters put into the sump.
 
Mystix212;1571136; said:
A temperature fluctuation of 10F is huge. Keeping it as stable as possible is best. What size tanks are these each, what filtration are you using and what would your lighting be like? For a 500G tank, you would need multiple titanium 500 watt heaters put into the sump.
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the tank sizes are (1) 700gal (1) 500gal (1) 240gal...........
Filteration; one sump (8ft x 1ft6in x 2ft) with pump and one bead filter with
two pumps that holds 9cuft of media....
the piping will be teed off to all three tanks.....
Lighting is just flouresents with some pot lights.(nothing fancy).....

I have found an inline heater that is 1500 watts.... so I am thinking two
of these plus one 1000watt titanium heater in the sump....
what do you think?????? That would be a total of 4000 watts....
 
terrors r us;1572505; said:
the tank sizes are (1) 700gal (1) 500gal (1) 240gal...........
Filteration; one sump (8ft x 1ft6in x 2ft) with pump and one bead filter with
two pumps that holds 9cuft of media....
the piping will be teed off to all three tanks.....
Lighting is just flouresents with some pot lights.(nothing fancy).....

I have found an inline heater that is 1500 watts.... so I am thinking two
of these plus one 1000watt titanium heater in the sump....
what do you think?????? That would be a total of 4000 watts....
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a extra one or 2 in the sump would be better incase of failure on the inline ones
 
the 240g will do fine with 3 300w and a 100w,dont know about rest since im used to smaller tanks
 
Am I in the minority here when I say that I have one 300 watt on my 300 gal. The temp holds steady and I have never had any issues. It does not make any sense to have so many. The only reason to put so many heaters in is to raise the temp faster. If you don't have your tank in a super cold room and it has a lid I doubt you would need that many heaters.
 
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