Thermometer Help

[Liquidshokk]

Hi newbie here, Having just posted my introduction post I'm already in need of help please!!

Might sound like a stupid question but i got a paper-like thermometer sticker with my tank, which i naturally stuck to the inside of the tank....Having looked over the tank setup instructions again, it appears to be on the outside of the tank in the pictures! Should it be stuck on the outside and if so, surely its not testing the water temperature?!?!? also, am i right in saying the water should be between 24-26oC?? Its hard to read a temperature but it appears to be indicating around that temp...

Many Thanks in advance guys



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[Gatorbait]

I'm pretty sure they go on the outside of the tank. I don't know how accurate it is on the outside since I don't use them. I buy my own thermometer and use it if the water feels a little different by hand.

 

[xingumike]

Yeah it should be on the outside, but i dont like them either. You won't want the glue and whatever else is on it getting into your water so take it off asap and replace it with a proper thermometer they are pretty inexpensive.

And yes dependant on inhabitants 24-26 seems ok

 

[Liquidshokk]

Thanks guys, Speedy response!!


I have just taken the thermometer out! Its not really useable now as you'd expect after peeling it off so I will invest in a better one tomorrow

Thanks again

 

[TerraDreamer]

I thought I'd share my very inexpensive solution. In the U.S. we have a chain electronics store called Radio Shack. I'm not certain if you have these in the U.K. or other parts of Europe, but you may have something similar. It's a favorite for electronics hobbyists. Anyway, I purchased a small digital indoor/outdoor thermometer from them. It's about two and a half inches square with a 1" x 2" large digital read-out and has a 6' long two-strand thin plastic coated wire coming from it. For indoor reading you slide the switch to indoor and presumably there is a sensor within the unit that measures just that. For outdoor, there is a small plastic encased sensor on the end of the wire which measures the temperature there. I placed the end of the wire about half-way down the inside of my tank behind a lift tube to hide it, switched the thermometer on the outdoor setting, and viola, a highly accurate digital thermometer that measures to the 10th of a degree. It also measures in Celsius. I verified the accuracy against my old in-the-tank glass tube-style thermometer.

Cost? $3.99 U.S.; much cheaper than the ones they sell in the lfs. Uses a small watch battery which lasts about two years.

Works great, and no unsightly thermometer in the tank!

 

[vinylman]

The problem with those 'strip' type thermometers is that they read the temperature of the outside glass; if it's a warm day, or you've had the fire up high, you're not getting the water temperature.