candymancan
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Okay im new to marine aquarium keeping but ive been in the fresh water hobby for 20 years now. So im learning about coral types and just everything in general so bear with me here.
i recently pulled a 27g hexagon my mom bought me as a kid back in 2001 as i needed an emergency hospital tank for discus i had that were sick.. My main hospital tank cracked when a light fell on it.
Anyway i decided to reseal the tank abd try my feet in salt water.. Tanks been running for awhile and i already have my first corals which arr doing great so far. I plan to make this mainly a reef aquarium with just a few fish nothing fancy in the fish department.
Now to my question.. Ive been to a few local reef stores and read online and everyone i talk too in these stores and these websites that sell coral all say to keep reef tabks below 77f. One store the owner said 72-75f...
Now im not an idiot and im trying to wrap my mind around this... Reefs around the world the temperatures are not 72f.. or 73f or 74 or 75f... Where are people getting these numbers from. Yes im questioning everyone who says such low temperatures because i have common sense.
According to online reefs around the world actual measured temperatures average to 82-84f. Some reefs cant get up to the 90s. And yes i know reefs cab bleach from temps that high but my question isnt the 90s.
With average temperatures in the tropics for reefs being 80s why in the hell are people telling me to keep my reef in the mid 70s. Especially that one store owner who said 72-75f.
His name was Ben from a store in fairfax named supreme reefs. This guy had a beautiful setup of coral abd has an award for 2018 best in show for some convention he went too. So im not doubting he knows his stuff.. but those temperatures are down right cold... 72f is COLDDDDD... I mean it seems to me that someone came up with this genius idea that taking a harvested coral living in the 80s to put it in a tank with temps in the mid 70s doesnt know what he.she is doing. Perhaps someone in the chiller business to sell more chillers
My tank is in my bedroom along with my 135g discus tank due to having it in my bedroom my tank was getting to like 82f with a top on it. So here i am taking 140mm computer fans cutting and splicing the wires into a 3A power supply for an ild t.v cable box and mounting the fans betwern my two lights to blow on the water.
It lowered my temps by alot.. With the a.c on in the house temps dropped to 74f.. Which was cold as hell when i put my arm in the tank.. So i put my heater in and set it to 77f so now i have my heater and fans on 24.7 to maintain 77f not to mention i have no top now and the room is getting humid because of this.
Seriously.. Are you guys positive coral need temps this low ? To me it seems wrong and to me it would seem coral would do better in actual tropic temperatures of 82f.
And here you have fish though that have 78f to 82f temp requirements.. but then you got corals that need 75f.. Makes perfect sense that fish need higher temps and corals lower thats why there are 0 fish in the oceon around corals am i right ??:furious:
i recently pulled a 27g hexagon my mom bought me as a kid back in 2001 as i needed an emergency hospital tank for discus i had that were sick.. My main hospital tank cracked when a light fell on it.
Anyway i decided to reseal the tank abd try my feet in salt water.. Tanks been running for awhile and i already have my first corals which arr doing great so far. I plan to make this mainly a reef aquarium with just a few fish nothing fancy in the fish department.
Now to my question.. Ive been to a few local reef stores and read online and everyone i talk too in these stores and these websites that sell coral all say to keep reef tabks below 77f. One store the owner said 72-75f...
Now im not an idiot and im trying to wrap my mind around this... Reefs around the world the temperatures are not 72f.. or 73f or 74 or 75f... Where are people getting these numbers from. Yes im questioning everyone who says such low temperatures because i have common sense.
According to online reefs around the world actual measured temperatures average to 82-84f. Some reefs cant get up to the 90s. And yes i know reefs cab bleach from temps that high but my question isnt the 90s.
With average temperatures in the tropics for reefs being 80s why in the hell are people telling me to keep my reef in the mid 70s. Especially that one store owner who said 72-75f.
His name was Ben from a store in fairfax named supreme reefs. This guy had a beautiful setup of coral abd has an award for 2018 best in show for some convention he went too. So im not doubting he knows his stuff.. but those temperatures are down right cold... 72f is COLDDDDD... I mean it seems to me that someone came up with this genius idea that taking a harvested coral living in the 80s to put it in a tank with temps in the mid 70s doesnt know what he.she is doing. Perhaps someone in the chiller business to sell more chillers
My tank is in my bedroom along with my 135g discus tank due to having it in my bedroom my tank was getting to like 82f with a top on it. So here i am taking 140mm computer fans cutting and splicing the wires into a 3A power supply for an ild t.v cable box and mounting the fans betwern my two lights to blow on the water.
It lowered my temps by alot.. With the a.c on in the house temps dropped to 74f.. Which was cold as hell when i put my arm in the tank.. So i put my heater in and set it to 77f so now i have my heater and fans on 24.7 to maintain 77f not to mention i have no top now and the room is getting humid because of this.
Seriously.. Are you guys positive coral need temps this low ? To me it seems wrong and to me it would seem coral would do better in actual tropic temperatures of 82f.
And here you have fish though that have 78f to 82f temp requirements.. but then you got corals that need 75f.. Makes perfect sense that fish need higher temps and corals lower thats why there are 0 fish in the oceon around corals am i right ??:furious: