Quick Poll: What temp do you keep your reef tank?

[wayne]

Or maybe what temp do you try to keep your reef at

 

[Larry M]

80 to 85 degrees.
Take a look at this:
http://www.reefcentral.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/19991109-1-000031.html


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[Joez]

79 - 82 (on some summer days it goes as high as 86).

 

[horge]

Dunno...
The thermometer bulb keeps blowing out.

Seriously... it's running at about 88 right now, and there's a nighttime low of 84 and a 3pm high of 90.

 

[Psyduck]

Mine is 75-79 depending on time of day and season of the year.

 

[FOX]

My tank goes from around 81-82 in the morning to 84-85 in the evening.

Horge,

Do you keep sps in those temps.? I recently had my tank go up to about 89 a couple of days and I lost one acropora and one other bleached a little but recovered.

FOX

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[horge]

Hi Kory:
Acroporids (and Pocilloporids) don't seem to appreciate rapid temp changes or higher temp ranges for that matter. (Real funny for stereotypical crest animals, ja?)

But aye, I husband a number of Pectinias, Stylophoras, Porites lobata and Porites cylindrica, etc. They're all growing at rates comparable to or better than their clones in the wild. I couldn't do squat with Heliopora coerula at the higher 80's temp, though.

My corals zoox-puke/bleach with some regularity (once a week maybe, haha). The trick seems to be providing the params that allow them to recover, and obtaining frags from very close to shore

 

[golfish]

79-80

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[TheDonger]

Average about 83F, hits about 84 something in the day, doesn't go below 82 at night.

Check out the great temp debate...this one will last forever it seems.
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/reef_temperature.html

Keith



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[Staceon]

80 to 82

 

[Frisco]

82-85

 

[Doug]

Hi Wayne,

75 gallon - 78 to 80.
29#1 gallon - 78 to 80.
29#2 gallon - 76 to 78.
10 gallon - 82 to 85.

HTH

Doug

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[Nathan]

81F (+/-1F)

-njm

 

[J]

80-81 in the night and morning
82-84 during the day

 

[horge]

Keith:
Given the staggering amount of pride and utter hogwash being put out to dry on that over-wrought thread, I'm glad this one is just a poll.

 

[ReefDad]

78.811345 +1.00000 / -.332110

 

[cjdevito]

Hmm, my tank probably doesn't get any cooler then 81 and probably doesn't get any hotter then maybe 86 or so.

I am, as you may be able to tell, a firm believer in Ron's points regarding temperature/salinity.

 

[npaden]

Somewhere between 79 and 82. But this is based on a glass aquarium therometer. I have heard that they can be off as much a 4 degrees. I have 2 that read about 2 degrees apart and I take an average on them to get the temp above. Plan to let it get up around 84 during the day this summer. Later, Nathan

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[Flatlander]

79.7

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Doug Lowey

 

[turbo]

81-82