10 Things to Consider When Heating Your Aquarium

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10 Things to Consider When Heating Your Aquarium

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This video is an overview of aquarium heaters. How many heaters you need, how many watts, where to place your heaters, and more.
Aquarium heaters are sometimes an afterthought when it comes to setting up an aquarium, but it's one piece of equipment that can make or break a tank. Aquarium heaters that fail can be catastrophic to your fish, so we try to stick with a few types/brands that have worked well for us over the years.
We also heat each individual tank since heating a large basement and house wouldn't really be feasible. But if you do have a situation where you could heat the room instead, that would likely be ideal!
Below are Amazon affiliate links to a few heaters that we often use throughout our fish rooms.
- Sicce Scuba Contactless heater - amzn.to/3GfGpqe
- Sicce Preset Heater - amzn.to/49DP2Yb
- Fluval 300W Heater - amzn.to/3wePVYM
- Eheim 300W Heater - amzn.to/49IxSJb
- INKBIRD Controller - amzn.to/49BzFzu
- Thermometer - amzn.to/49i1ehn
Thanks again for watching!

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@CichPsyche 5 ай бұрын

Great topic yall love it!

@tubingtomtom 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for not flooding me with too much information or explaining in detail some experience you’ve had in a certain situation. Just know what water temp the fish you want can thrive or survive in is great advice for me. Also the breeding based on temp was good to know. Thanks!

@sandyloyst1811 5 ай бұрын

Great information guys. Very informative. Thanks. TEAM TROY!

@CichlidBros 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, Sandy!

@brockg6194 5 ай бұрын

TY, mine just stopped working and the Inkbird let me know.

@dwsdarius 5 ай бұрын

Great Info Guys! This winter I heated my entire basement but I think next year I'll try to heat the tanks individually to see which is more cost effective option

@mizike3854 5 ай бұрын

Great topic honestly just showing off cool things you use in your tanks or things you considered would be cool to see everyone wants a second opinion before they buy.

@99Canecas 5 ай бұрын

Inkbird for the win complete gamechanger !

@norbertthoens3561 5 ай бұрын

Sehr schöne und ausführliche Erklärung der Heizung im Aquarium! 👍

@andrewcoates4753 5 ай бұрын

I have a in line heater seems to be working great atm.

@ruthwalker5179 5 ай бұрын

It’s always fun to see your impressive tanks and how the fish are growing. The heater information was very helpful. I wish I could do a better job at hiding mine. They tend to float around here and there.

@illinoisbasketballacademy 2 ай бұрын

Awesome video

@maximusaquatics7835 5 ай бұрын

Great information guys!!

@evilone543 5 ай бұрын

I just put up a new tank (60g cube) with my first sump. The heater I had on hand is maintaining the temp, but not really raising the temp. So I ordered a new sicce scuba. I’ll get one of those inkbird controllers soon too. 😊

@CichlidBros 5 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@RogueAquariums 5 ай бұрын

Some good points you both bring up, thank you. My 600g acrylic tank with 1” panels is in my garage and have no issue keeping my temps between 76.5-78 degrees. I use my Apex to control my heaters with no problems.

@AntonioCastro-ws8uk 5 ай бұрын

Yes I heat all my tanks

@user-uf1om9gw6u 4 ай бұрын

is 82 too hot for severums? Ive had my 125 gallon at that temp and they are doing extremely well. 3 300wat heaters

@vickys.m.1173 4 ай бұрын

From Singapore. The temp avr here is 28 to 34. Which heater is good - Fluval or Eheim to keep the temp constant at 27degree celsius?

@CichlidBros 4 ай бұрын

I would recommend Sicce or Fluval

@MrPatagonianFox 5 ай бұрын

Next month I’m planning on getting an 80 gallon tank (115 total gallons w/ sump). I’d like to hide the heaters in the sump, so I will need 2 small high watt heaters. I’m considering a 150 watt and a 200 watt Aqueon Preset Heater. According to the manufacturer the 150 watt heats 30-55 gallons, and the 200 watt heats 50-75 gallons. I am also considering 2 AquaMiracle Super Short 300 watt heaters. The company says they heat between 40-60 gallons. I question whether this information is correct since the 300 watt heaters don’t heat as many gallons as the other brand, which has a lower wattage. Is it because they are smaller, and there is less surface area for the heaters to warm the water?

@KoltonDrum 5 ай бұрын

Day two of asking to do a mbuna breeding tank

@ranjanty 5 ай бұрын

I've been trying to figure out how to fit a 125 gal in my room and it would be my last tank. I live in a very small house and have small tanks except for the two 55's, and seem small now. I'm new to this hobby and my electric bill has doubled the past month. The wife isn't happy. Will the mbuna suffer if I turn down the heater to 70? Maybe I should wrap the tanks with insulation during the winter, except for the front of course. Anybody ever try that?

@AntonioCastro-ws8uk 5 ай бұрын

Two heater what. I been heating my 180 with one heater I never used two. I checked my tanks after day so need for two I you check your tanks everyday

@CichlidBros 5 ай бұрын

If that works for you, great. We'd still recommend two so that you have redundancy and not relying on one heater.

@Bakedea87 5 ай бұрын

@@CichlidBrosYeah I'd agree, great topic thought I was only one who thought like this, glad to see I'm not. I definitely believe anything bigger than 40 gallons needs at least two or more heaters specifically for colder places