Watch tank temps

[Joker]

Just a friendly reminder to keep an eye on your tanks Temps with the hotter weather hitting. My tank hit 79.2 today before I noticed and tossed the fans on it.

 

[Cpage101]

Mine did the same I dont worry until 82. My fans turn on automatically at 80.5

 

[chadfish]

Thanks. You reminded me to install my new Inkbird with auto heat/chill control

 

[Casino]

What fans are we using nowadays? just regular fans?

 

[thrillreefer]

Good call. I need to watch my new tank this summer and probably set up a fan triggered on my temp controller. Any fan will do?

 

[chadfish]

What fans are we using nowadays? just regular fans?

I’m sure you can get fancy but air is air. I bought a cheap clip-on fan that I clip on to the end of my ReefBreeders. It’s a dinky usb fan but it works well. Doesn’t look great or integrated, but it’s not huge and awful either. Now that I have the thermostat, I’m pretty confident going into this summer

Edit:

My major issues with my setup are the shade created by the fan in that corner and the color - I should have bought a black one.

 

[srit1]

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072LDYKQ6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use these wired to an old powersupply from some long broken pump

 

[jazzsam]

What temperatures do you all like to keep your tanks at?

 

[Casino]

I keep mine at 78. Summer it goes up maybe 80.

 

[Casino]

I’m sure you can get fancy but air is air. I bought a cheap clip-on fan that I clip on to the end of my ReefBreeders. It’s a dinky usb fan but it works well. Doesn’t look great or integrated, but it’s not huge and awful either. Now that I have the thermostat, I’m pretty confident going into this summer

Yeah I agree.

 

[Casino]

I use these wired to an old powersupply from some long broken pump

Wish those came in ac. Then I could plug them into my apex.

 

[MikeG]

Luckily I didnt have an issue, but identified a stupid mistake. I have three temp probes on my system, one in sump, one in frag tank and one in display with all three tanks connected (redundancy). Sump and frag tank are in the basement. Sump and display each have a 500W heater. My display heater was actually paired with my frag tank temp probe in the basement on my Apex. My display climbed from 77 to 77.6 which I thought was odd and checked my heaters as it was still listed as being on which is what tipped me off. Should have been off at 77 degrees. One future possible crisis avoided. Checked all my programming after that...

 

[chadfish]

Wish those came in ac. Then I could plug them into my apex.

I think he’s saying he’s using an old 12V wall wart to power them. Probably spliced the wires.