What is the ideal water temp for a sps tank?

[nanonubey]

My temp gets up to 80 then the chiller kicks it back down to 78 and at night it gets down to 76.5ish. What do you guys run yours at?

 

[Western_reefer]

I keep my 28 gallon reef at 80-82F.

 

[scrapz]

set your heater to 77.

i swing from 76-82

 

[whipit]

I keep my 180 at 77 but it does fluctuate 1 degee either way depending on the time of day.

 

[cloak]

My tank seems to vary between 75-86 throughout the year. One side of the spectrum in the summer, the other in winter. I haven't had any problems with this sort of fluctuation.

 

[LifeAquatic]

My temp is exactly like yours. I have the chiller set to turn on at 81. The heaters turn on at 76.9 so I guess from 77-81.

 

[Dustin1300]

79-82 here. Do not have a chiller but fan kicks on across my sump when my Halides are running during the day.

 

[Bonvivant]

I have a chiller and heater set at 79 on a DA controller. I set the Hysteresis at 0.1 and my temp stays rock solid at between 78.8-79.0. I think rock steady temps are one of the keys to SPS.

 

[redhanded77]

i go from 79 in the morning to about 82ish during the day.

 

[tozzi]

Mine is from 76-84, varies from summer to winter. Everything is fine with it.

 

[mike_cmu04]

I run mine 76-79. I think as long as your temp is pretty consistent you will have good success.

 

[wickedfish]

77.0-80.1 for the past 3 weeks even when temp increased by 20 degrees without a chiller, I did turn the canopuy fans on today it got to 102 F.

 

[Dustin1300]

i go from 79 in the morning to about 82ish during the day.

Corals naturally are going to have fluctuations in the reef. Having tempss too 'rock stable' seems to make the coral too sensitive to unexpected temperature swings IMHO.

 

[allsps40]

Mine stays at 78-81 degrees from night halide on/day. Stay like this all year round no heater unless needed and I have not. No chiller at all But I have a fan over my sump if I need it. I did when AC did in summer with my old 2x 150 watt halides. With my 250 watt halide temp runs about 1-2 degrees cooler. Keeping sps in a stable range of 78-82 degrees is best for health and growth IMO.

 

[OneReef]

I am kinda surprised at some of the temp swings for SPS tanks. There are some big swings listed. With all that has been posted, it leads me to wonder what range is acceptable for SPS to do ok? Not actual temperatures, but variances. I realize no fluctuation is best, but at what point do you see negative effects? a 5* swing? or more?

 

[whipit]

the Ocean is constantly changing. I don't understand why people think everything has to be perfect nature is not or why they think SPS are so hard to keep?

 

[nanonubey]

Thanks for all the replies guys, I turned my heater up a little and it was 78.4 this morning. I think I'll keep it like this.

 

[MeVsTheWorld]

Mine runs between 76 - 78 from morning to night. During the summer when the ac is off it can get as high as 85 with no ill affects to the corals. Like stated the ocean does not stay rock solid, so I think small fluctuations are no big deal.

 

[allsps40]

^ yep to the last 3. My nano cube gets to 83 with the lights on with no problems, its my hottest running tank. I keep mostly lps and softies. You tell me does these corals look unhappy in the higher temp??

The Frogspawn is growing really well, 2 heads split into 4 and have grown out 1/4 inch in less than 2 months.

 

[seashark]

i always keep my tank 78 -79 , and my sps do well, in this temperature.