can i ask why you need
the temps so high
when most fish like
it between 74 to 79
My aim is to get my tanks 75-80degrees. Why do you say this is too high?
my temperature has been at f74-6. only exception being, high summer, raising to 80+. but opening the lid and adding a small fan rapidly reduses that. though it does increase evaporation, well it would wouldn't it?
two reasons, I think, for keeping your fish at the lowest area of its temperature range.
first and perhaps the most important, in these straightened times, is cost. reducing you temperature by 5 degrees will save a reasonable amount, over a year. also reducing your heaters "on" time will extend its life.
second is safety. if your heater fails, normally, one of two things happens. the heater dies. in this case, for most of us, the temperature drop will be reduced. most of us will be able to keep an unheated tank at f70 (assuming the tank is in the living area). if the heater sticks on. it will take far longer for the tank to reach a "critical" temperature. giving you, significantly, more time to act.
if you think of f75( i personally think you could shave at least 3 degrees of this, for most fish) as the lowest "extreme", and f80 as the highest "extreme". in environmental terms, in between two "extremes" there is an "ideal". this, i think, is where we should aim.
