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Cougra · 01-06-2004, 10:58 AM

I would tend to concure with Brucey on the stick on thermometres. They are very unreliable. Use either an electronic thermometer or the good oldfashion glass ones that float in the tank. You really shouldn't have a problem keeping the temperature of your tank up at nights with a couple 200W heaters!

When using more then one heater in a tank, it's difficult to have them both set to the same temperature and one heater may be over working while the other isn't doing much. Don't rely on the markings at the top of the heater neither as those are just general guide lines and some heaters can be off by 5 or more degrees.

When I set the heaters for my tanks, I never set them inside the tank and play around with the temps there as I feel that method is a little too risky. I take a small bucket of coldwater (about 2 to 5 gallons) and place a heater in the bucket. Let the heater warm up the water and and turn off and measure the temperature in the bucket to see if it's working properly and what the temperature is set at. I do this with every heater I have and usually do a bi-monthly check on to make sure the temp doesn't drift ( I have one heater that is bad for that and only use it for heating water before adding to the tank now)

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Cougra Dragon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 2,216 View Gallery Karma Komment	I would tend to concure with Brucey on the stick on thermometres. They are very unreliable. Use either an electronic thermometer or the good oldfashion glass ones that float in the tank. You really shouldn't have a problem keeping the temperature of your tank up at nights with a couple 200W heaters! When using more then one heater in a tank, it's difficult to have them both set to the same temperature and one heater may be over working while the other isn't doing much. Don't rely on the markings at the top of the heater neither as those are just general guide lines and some heaters can be off by 5 or more degrees. When I set the heaters for my tanks, I never set them inside the tank and play around with the temps there as I feel that method is a little too risky. I take a small bucket of coldwater (about 2 to 5 gallons) and place a heater in the bucket. Let the heater warm up the water and and turn off and measure the temperature in the bucket to see if it's working properly and what the temperature is set at. I do this with every heater I have and usually do a bi-monthly check on to make sure the temp doesn't drift ( I have one heater that is bad for that and only use it for heating water before adding to the tank now) __________________ Michelle Just because something CAN be done, it doesn't mean that it SHOULD be done!