Biocube 29 HQI temperatures?

[JHall651]

Does anyone here have a Biocube HQI 29g? If so how is your temperatures? I have had mine for almost 3 days now and I have no heater yet. Just from running my light approx. 12 hours a day for two days my tank got up to 80 degrees and seemed like it was still rising. I will check tomorrow to see how much it drops over night to see if I need a small heater for the night or not. FYI my house is kept at a cool 70 degrees pretty much year round and the Biocube is not at all within direct sunlight. I plan on it being a reef tank with maybe 3 or 4 small fish and a few crustaceans and snails. Looking forward to inputs.

[aqua_reef_01]

I would add a heater regardless. IMO. If your temperature has a large drop, and raise it will kill things off. I have heard that 2 degrees in 24 hours is most. but what if your bulb was to blow or the ballast to go out? I have a 150w sunpod on my 24gal aquapod and keep a heater on it. I don't know the range with out it though.

[JHall651]

cool so I guess I will get a small one regaurdless then. sorry buy I am a newbie so I have to ask this question. How exactly does the heaters work. What I mean is do they stay heated at the set temp all the time? Or do they just heat up when it detects the temp getting below the set temp?

[Mrrealmadrid]

I have a heater to keep temps steady when the lights go off.... getting the led hood tho... dont want to run a chiller in the summer

[cmac23]

he want need a chiller with this setup, the light sits high enuff above the tank, and a glass top. i have the same setup, havent put anything on yet, but i have a hyor 50 watt heater. i havent fired anything up yet so can not tell you how it works, but a 50w heater is on the small side but perfect in my opinion for this tank

[JHall651]

i just purchased the 100 watt stealth heater online. says it was made for a 30g. figured better to have more than enough power than not enough. also bought the uv sterilizer for the biocube cause all this reading of ich and how its hard to treat in a reef tank scared me into buy one. hehe.

[cmac23]

you have been dropping money in that tank. how much was that refuge light

[JHall651]

like 45 bucks. but ya i have been dropping some money into it. i would say all in all with everything i have in it so far i have spent almost 1200.00. That includes everything though (i.e. live fiji rock, live sand, saltwater, test kits, uv sterilizer, heater, stand, tank, thermometer, mag cleaner) . Just need fish and coral now. figured this is my first saltwater tank so i might as well do it right. just wish i had room and permission from the wife to have a bigger one. maybe later down the road.

[JHall651]

did some checking and yes that freshwater will work. i have been reading that fluorescent lights is all you need and that is what is in the freshwater one. the saltwater one just has one blue actinic light and one fluorescent light where the fresh has two fluorescent.

[JHall651]

well good thing i ordered the heater. last night it dipped down to about 75 when the lights where off from about 80 before i shut them off. now should i just turn the heater on at night when the lights go off or should i just let it run all the time?

[JHall651]

Hey guys I recently put in a Marineland 100 watt heater and was looking into to getting a dual stage temperature controller to control the heater and maybe a fan or two for cooling but had a few questions. Has anyone ran something like this in a Biocube? The thing is before installing the heater during the day my MH light would heat the tank to a nice 79/80 degrees but at night the tanks wants to drop a few degrees. Now that I have the heater I am worried that it might get to hot during the day from the light. So I figured I would install a fan or two for cooling and have everything run off the American Marine Pinpoint Dual-Stage Temperature Controller. Where should I install the fan(s) if I do this? I have the heater in the first chamber along with my skimmer. Do you think I should just mount the fan to the top of the right side chamber cover so that it is blowing down onto the water in chamber one once the controller decides that it is needed? Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.