wrightme43
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How hot do you keep your tank? And why?
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wrightme43
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At home I keep mine at 82f for quick growth, and my clients tanks I keep at 78f for safety.
iamjosh
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I keep my tank @ 80.6 durring the day w/ MH it climbs to 81.7
House AC keeps everything else perfect.
House AC keeps everything else perfect.
Woodstock
I <3 clown fish!
80-83... but usually 82.
Witfull
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79.5 is average. chiller set to 78.5 but has a 1.5 engage, so it will touch 80.
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Gads - I would love for my tank to stay below 81ºF, but due to the cooler temps, my air conditioning isn't running as much, so I'll get up to almost 84ºF. A chiller is in the near future for me. I feel that higher temps increase metabolism too much, and therefore lower the oxygen due to increased respiration. Not to mention, heat stress enzymes that could cause a bleaching event.
As a nice supplement, here is another thread: What Temperature is Your Tank?
As a nice supplement, here is another thread: What Temperature is Your Tank?
Chiller is set at 79F ... It comes on at 80F and turns off at 78F ... works out pretty well.
cheeks69
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Mine stays between 82-86 degrees don't have a chiller nor AC 
With the amount of flow I have in the tank I'm not too concerned about oxygen levels plus most of the corals especially from the Indo-Pacific area are from waters that stay in the mid 80's.
"Temperature
Temperature impacts reef aquarium inhabitants in a variety of ways. First and foremost, the animals' metabolic rates rise as temperature rises. They may consequently use more oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, calcium and alkalinity at higher temperatures. This higher metabolic rate can also increase both their growth rate and waste production at higher temperatures.
Another important impact of temperature is on the chemical aspects of the aquarium. The solubility of dissolved gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, for example, changes with temperature. Oxygen, in particular, can be a concern because it is less soluble at higher temperature.
So what does this imply for aquarists?
In most instances, trying to match the natural environment in a reef aquarium is a worthy goal. Temperature may, however, be a parameter that requires accounting for the practical considerations of a small closed system. Looking to the ocean as a guide for setting temperatures in reef aquaria may present complications, because corals grow in such a wide range of temperatures. Nevertheless, Ron Shimek has shown in a previous article that the greatest variety of corals are found in water whose average temperature is about 83-86° F.
Reef aquaria do, however, have limitations that may make their optimal temperature somewhat lower. During normal functioning of a reef aquarium, the oxygen level and the metabolic rate of the aquarium inhabitants are not often important issues. During a crisis such as a power failure, however, the dissolved oxygen can be rapidly used up. Lower temperatures not only allow a higher oxygen level before an emergency, but will also slow the consumption of that oxygen by slowing the metabolism of the aquarium's inhabitants. The production of ammonia as organisms begin to die may also be slower at lower temperatures. For reasons such as this, one may choose to strike a practical balance between temperatures that are too high (even if corals normally thrive in the ocean at those temperatures), and those that are too low. Although average reef temperatures in maximal diversity areas (i.e. coral triangle centered Indonesia,) these areas are also often subject to significant mixing. In fact, the cooler reefs, ( i..e. open Pacific reefs) are often more stable at lower temperatures due to oceanic exchange but are less tolerant to bleaching and other temperature related perturbations.
All things considered, those natural guidelines leave a fairly wide range of acceptable temperatures. I keep my aquarium at about 80-81° F year-round. I am actually more inclined to keep the aquarium cooler in the summer, when a power failure would most likely warm the aquarium, and higher in winter, when a power failure would most likely cool it.
All things considered, I recommend temperatures in the range of 76-83° F unless there is a very clear reason to keep it outside that range"
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
With the amount of flow I have in the tank I'm not too concerned about oxygen levels plus most of the corals especially from the Indo-Pacific area are from waters that stay in the mid 80's."Temperature
Temperature impacts reef aquarium inhabitants in a variety of ways. First and foremost, the animals' metabolic rates rise as temperature rises. They may consequently use more oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, calcium and alkalinity at higher temperatures. This higher metabolic rate can also increase both their growth rate and waste production at higher temperatures.
Another important impact of temperature is on the chemical aspects of the aquarium. The solubility of dissolved gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, for example, changes with temperature. Oxygen, in particular, can be a concern because it is less soluble at higher temperature.
So what does this imply for aquarists?
In most instances, trying to match the natural environment in a reef aquarium is a worthy goal. Temperature may, however, be a parameter that requires accounting for the practical considerations of a small closed system. Looking to the ocean as a guide for setting temperatures in reef aquaria may present complications, because corals grow in such a wide range of temperatures. Nevertheless, Ron Shimek has shown in a previous article that the greatest variety of corals are found in water whose average temperature is about 83-86° F.
Reef aquaria do, however, have limitations that may make their optimal temperature somewhat lower. During normal functioning of a reef aquarium, the oxygen level and the metabolic rate of the aquarium inhabitants are not often important issues. During a crisis such as a power failure, however, the dissolved oxygen can be rapidly used up. Lower temperatures not only allow a higher oxygen level before an emergency, but will also slow the consumption of that oxygen by slowing the metabolism of the aquarium's inhabitants. The production of ammonia as organisms begin to die may also be slower at lower temperatures. For reasons such as this, one may choose to strike a practical balance between temperatures that are too high (even if corals normally thrive in the ocean at those temperatures), and those that are too low. Although average reef temperatures in maximal diversity areas (i.e. coral triangle centered Indonesia,) these areas are also often subject to significant mixing. In fact, the cooler reefs, ( i..e. open Pacific reefs) are often more stable at lower temperatures due to oceanic exchange but are less tolerant to bleaching and other temperature related perturbations.
All things considered, those natural guidelines leave a fairly wide range of acceptable temperatures. I keep my aquarium at about 80-81° F year-round. I am actually more inclined to keep the aquarium cooler in the summer, when a power failure would most likely warm the aquarium, and higher in winter, when a power failure would most likely cool it.
All things considered, I recommend temperatures in the range of 76-83° F unless there is a very clear reason to keep it outside that range"
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/index.htm
wrightme43
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Very good post Robert, thanks. Steve
Katchupoy
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steady on 80 here.
snobanker
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79 to 81, but it climbs to about 82.5 on hot days...no chiller yet
lovesalt
zoanthid
78-80 in the summer it can get higher, I have to run fans to keep it cool, one day I will have a chiller or AC!
tslawinski
Reef Doc
Chiller set to 80. Turns on at 79 and off at 81.
LakeEd
Achilles
I try to keep mine between 79 and 81 as well. Had some hard times at that this summer, when my poor un-airconditioned home was close to 95 when I got home from work... but emergency bags of RO/DI Ice seemed to help.
sherm71tank
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80-83. Use a Ranco controller on a Honeywell fan over my sump.
