Tank Temp...

[OrionN]

What you need is to put fans on your sump and top of tank. These fans to turn on with the light and off when the light turn out. Keep cabinet open for better circulation, this will help the sump fan to cool down the tank. My tank often peak 84 in the summer and about 80 in the winter without problem. One organism that is very sensitiv to heat is Xenia. Often Xenia is the first that will melt if you have heat problem with your tank.

 

[sunil6784]

Stability is more important... as long as it's not fluctuating more than 2 degrees or so you're good..

 

[Iguana79]

Stability is not a major factor as long as you don't have HUGE swings at one time. Say 79-85 in a matter of 1 hour. Like I stated before and some other people have too. My tank starts out at about 80 in the morning. By the time the lights go out it is sitting at 85-86 Depending on the temp in the house. So +6 degrees in a 12 hour time and at night i get a -6 or so at night.. No effects and everything thrives.

 

[teesquare]

In keeping aquaria - we deal in risks, and the elimination of them.....

Running a tank at high temps is just more risky than I would reccommend. And in my 30 years of running systems, I *have* seen the temp influence - and markedly so - the growth of algaes. This precipitates other issues: Greater fluctuations in PH, and the slowing in coral growth due to the waste metabalites produced by the algaes.

This is not new folks. Ask Anthony Calfo, Sanjay Joshi or anyone else that you may respect in this hobby.

You may get away with it. or you may get away with it for a while, then have something happen to influence the tank temp further ( heat wave, AC going out - whatever) and then you are left with very little safety margin, and a shorter time line to react to it. Capiche?

All I am saying to the OP is this: Think about the less than perfect world we live in. Things happen that you cannot predict. Running a high tank temp is adding to the risks that we take, not mitigating them for long term success.

T

 

[wrott]

If your tank temp doesn't go higher than 83, you'll be OK. Just use a heater to keep the temp from dropping below say,,78. It really depends on how well your animals will adapt to a specific range of temp fluctuation. I think 80-85 would not be bad, as long as you do not shock your system, and slowly allow the the fluctuation to occur--like over 3-4 weeks.

 

[menthol]

I'd say drastic temp fluctuations is what you need to avoid here. if i put my tank in case, i do not have nuissance algae, my PH and other params are stable across varying tmps, all my LS are not gasping for air, at 81F at night and 83F at high noon. in a power outage, with no fans running across the top of my tank and no heat from the pumps, my temp will creep up to 84-85F. happened a lot of times with no lost LS.

theorizing that i put a chiller to keep my tank at a constant 78F and the POWER GOES OUT, woooooo, it'll be like a chernobyl incident in my tank.

so i think it all depends on the actual ambient temp in your tanks location.