Why Can't Someone Make A Thermometer That's Decent?

[arvlyn]

I have several different kinds and don't like any of them!

The metal ones don't fit right with the hoods on my aquariums.
The floating ones are never where you can read them.
The suction cup types never stay where you put them.
The stick on types stop working and don't show a temperature.

I'm looking at a digital thermometer in the Drs. Foster and Smith catalog for $5.59, but I'm wondering if it'd even work.

Just my early morning vent of the the day.

 

[Leitch]

Yea get a digi.

They stick on the outside of the glass and the wire is skinny enough to fit under a closed hood.

 

[loachman]

Mostly b/c people dont' want to pay the money for a good one.

 

[The-Wolf]

imho this is the best

 

[dane261]

i use my temp probe from work very accurate well should be for 180 smackeroonies go round and check them all before lights out

cheers dane

 

[mark.w.jones]

i use my temp probe from work very accurate well should be for 180 smackeroonies go round and check them all before lights out

cheers dane

You get paid to probe I'm in the wrong job.

 

[dane261]

i use my temp probe from work very accurate well should be for 180 smackeroonies go round and check them all before lights out

cheers dane

You get paid to probe I'm in the wrong job.

lol had to read it twice to get what you mean

im acutualy an air con and refrigeration engineer and have made a chiller for a fish tank with a digital display using an old mobile ac unit and other things


cheers dane

 

[dthoffsett]

I have digital thermometers on all of my tanks and highly recommend them.

 

[Luketendo]

I use glass ones with suction caps and mine stay in the right place.

 

[Musho3210]

glass suction are the ones i rely on the most since digitals could go haywire and you not knowing about it, a combination of the glass suction and the digital would be great though.....

 

[Luketendo]

I did use the strips until I found out they weren't very good.

 

[angelmouse]

anyone tryed the digitals that stick on the inside of the tank, are they any good?
Angel

 

[The-Wolf]

I think it is time to dig up an old post of mine that maybe of some use here
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=111080&hl=

 

[arvlyn]

imho this is the best

Looks nice, I haven't seen that brand here in the US but I'll look for it. Thanks.

I use glass ones with suction caps and mine stay in the right place.

Maybe I just got bad ones, I don't know. I even tried the boiling water trick to get the suction cups to stick again, didn't work.

glass suction are the ones i rely on the most since digitals could go haywire and you not knowing about it, a combination of the glass suction and the digital would be great though.....

I think I'll try leaving one of my metal ones on the gravel, like I have been, and getting a digital.

 

[Kevstir]

imho this is the best

oh need to get me one of those at the weekend

where did you get yours from for £6.99 wolf???