Heating ideas

[Moon27021]

I'm currently setting up my 125.... I had a 75 with a hydor inline heater coming from my fluval 406. Is there a bigger one that could handle a 125 or do I have to put some lame thing in my tank.... can I run two heaters inline or will that not work

[Ryan925]

I'm currently setting up my 125.... I had a 75 with a hydor inline heater coming from my fluval 406. Is there a bigger one that could handle a 125 or do I have to put some lame thing in my tank.... can I run two heaters inline or will that not work

Hydor makes a 300w I believe. Two in series wouldn't work as the second would be reading the hot water coming out of the first

[Moon27021]

Yeah I figured that.....

[fishbubbles]

Are you running a sump or using a canister filter or a HOB?

[Hicgup]

See question above, and/ or keep looking. Tytan makes inline aquaculture heaters up to 48,000 watts. Also if you must or really want to run heaters in line, can you "bullwinkle" two or three of your 75 gallon tank heaters on your 125.?.

[Clawhammer]

2 x 300 watt inline heaters should do the trick.

[Ryan925]

2 x 300 watt inline heaters should do the trick.

He posted this in another thread also. My thought was wouldn't the second heater, inline, be reading the hot water coming out of the first and cause it not to heat? Maybe I'm wrong?

[Clawhammer]

He posted this in another thread also. My thought was wouldn't the second heater, inline, be reading the hot water coming out of the first and cause it not to heat? Maybe I'm wrong?

I think the first heater would carry almost all the load of the tank and the second one would only kick on when the first one couldn't keep up. One Hydor 300w may do the trick by itself if the room isn't too cool.

[Ryan925]

I think the first heater would carry almost all the load of the tank and the second one would only kick on when the first one couldn't keep up. One Hydor 300w may do the trick by itself if the room isn't too cool.

I agree it probably would but what I meant was wouldn't the water coming out of the first heater be "hot" so that the second wouldn't be reading actual tank temp but the hot water out of the first

Maybe I am over thinking it

[Clawhammer]

I agree it probably would but what I meant was wouldn't the water coming out of the first heater be "hot" so that the second wouldn't be reading actual tank temp but the hot water out of the first

Maybe I am over thinking it

If this becomes a problem, perhaps set the first heater to 80 degrees and the second to 83 degrees.. I had to do a Google search sanity check and from what I read running them in a series is the way to go.

[bluelagoon]

One 300 Watt Hydro heater will work as mentioned above.A second one if you want,can be used as a back up in case the first one breaks.The second heater is usually turned down a degree or two so it'll only come on when the 1st heater fails.I use one and it gives off plenty of heat for a 125 gal.

[bluelagoon]

Hydro 300 watt is all you'll need.I commented in the other post you made

[Hicgup]

I agree it probably would but what I meant was wouldn't the water coming out of the first heater be "hot" so that the second wouldn't be reading actual tank temp but the hot water out of the first

Maybe I am over thinking it

Why I suggested a "bullwinkle", which is one hard line that splits into three or more individual lines, each line gets in water cold, heats in its own line, and after each line is individually heated they are branched back into one individual return.

[fishbubbles]

You could run both heaters inline and plug them into an inkbird controller. The probe for the inkbird will sit inside the tank and will cycle both heaters on and off at the same time with a one degree differential.

[jim LI]

You could run both heaters inline and plug them into an inkbird controller. The probe for the inkbird will sit inside the tank and will cycle both heaters on and off at the same time with a one degree differential.

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