High Temps, Frustrated. - Page 3

Fizz71 · 07/10/2013, 12:34 PM

My personal experience with my tank at 82 and beyond was an increase of crap (stuff growing I didn't want) and a slower coral growth. Note: It could have easily been the temp SWINGS that caused the changes and not the final temp but I'm not planning on trying to prove it by keeping it at 82 all winter.

My biggest FEAR of keeping a tank at 82 is one day of no AC in my house and it will hit the point that corals start to die off a lot faster than if I started at 80. 300-ish gallons of water and wet rock gives me some buffer of how long it takes to heat up, but I'd rather shoot for 80 and risk 86 than shoot for 83 and risk 89. So when the sun goes down...I let the tank go back down to 80 if it can..before the next day of overheating in the July weather.

I also had a heater controller fail on me once so I've seen how quickly everything dies when the heat gets too high...I lost most of my corals (and inverts). That's why I'm so gun-shy of heat..I've been shot/burned before.

Either way....Peter is right...and so am I. He's arguing science (global sea temps), I'm arguing semantics (normal goal tank temps).

...and TimeConsumer...Sana didn't say he kept his tank at 83...he said it's AT 83. Mine was 84.5 yesterday and that's when I got home, it was probably higher earlier. It's only been a few days of bad heat so no bad side-effect for me either, but I'm certainly not happy about hearing my RKL beeping every time I walk by the cellar door.

Temp swings to 82 are a norm...82 as a permanent tank temp is not. That's all I'm saying. My exact words were "I wouldn't say 82 is normal...it's not...it's common, but not normal." ...it's semantics. I apologize for being semantically anal on a message board...I'm equally anal in real life.

MrIcky · 07/10/2013, 01:25 PM

Glad your situation worked out OP. Should it come up for anyone else, I found pumps can have a huge impact on overall heat- at least as much as lighting.

07/10/2013, 12:34 PM	#51
Fizz71 FragSwapper Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: West Lawn, PA Posts: 5,800	My personal experience with my tank at 82 and beyond was an increase of crap (stuff growing I didn't want) and a slower coral growth. Note: It could have easily been the temp SWINGS that caused the changes and not the final temp but I'm not planning on trying to prove it by keeping it at 82 all winter. My biggest FEAR of keeping a tank at 82 is one day of no AC in my house and it will hit the point that corals start to die off a lot faster than if I started at 80. 300-ish gallons of water and wet rock gives me some buffer of how long it takes to heat up, but I'd rather shoot for 80 and risk 86 than shoot for 83 and risk 89. So when the sun goes down...I let the tank go back down to 80 if it can..before the next day of overheating in the July weather. I also had a heater controller fail on me once so I've seen how quickly everything dies when the heat gets too high...I lost most of my corals (and inverts). That's why I'm so gun-shy of heat..I've been shot/burned before. Either way....Peter is right...and so am I. He's arguing science (global sea temps), I'm arguing semantics (normal goal tank temps). ...and TimeConsumer...Sana didn't say he kept his tank at 83...he said it's AT 83. Mine was 84.5 yesterday and that's when I got home, it was probably higher earlier. It's only been a few days of bad heat so no bad side-effect for me either, but I'm certainly not happy about hearing my RKL beeping every time I walk by the cellar door. Temp swings to 82 are a norm...82 as a permanent tank temp is not. That's all I'm saying. My exact words were "I wouldn't say 82 is normal...it's not...it's common, but not normal." ...it's semantics. I apologize for being semantically anal on a message board...I'm equally anal in real life. __________________ --Fizz Current Tank Info: Current system is 8x2x2 240g peninsula setup with a single "chamber" 100g sump in the basement with an RDSB. All corals are 100% home grown from frags of fellow reefers (low natural reef impact).

07/10/2013, 01:25 PM	#52
MrIcky Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 296	Glad your situation worked out OP. Should it come up for anyone else, I found pumps can have a huge impact on overall heat- at least as much as lighting.