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Xiler said:
What is the best heater to buy these days?

Went away for 2 days and came back to a tank full of dead fish :( My heater had broken and was stuck on the water was roasting! Tank was great for almost 3 years no disease and the same fish until this happened.

Using the chance to upgrade but dont want the same thing to happen again!
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Any heater can bork. I've not found one better than another. I've got old cheap heaters that were running for 9-10 years and other branded ones that fail after 1-3 years.
For my 400L aquarium, I have two (lower wattage) Eheim Jager heaters (one at each end of the tank) plugged in to one of these controllers.
I only chose Eheim as they had extra-long power leads and their CS isn't bad.

It has an audible alarm for if the set temperature goes above or below the selected temperature range.
Had it for a few years and so far so good. The alarm has already alerted me to failed heaters (at 2am which wasn't good but they just died rather than being stuck on.)
So even if both heaters get stuck in the ON position and they go above the safe temp, the external controller will cut their power.
For it all to go wrong, all three thermostats would have to fail somehow.
Always worth having a spare heater in the drawer.
 
Here's the GF's 64L tank setup,

I think it may be a little overstocked though!! but it's a well maintained tank and they seem happy enough.



Video of it in action,


The tank is currently stocked with,

4 x Endlers Guppy's

3 x Harlequin

6 x Neon Tetra's

3 x Balloon Mollies

2 x Honey Gourami

2 x Albino Corydorus

3 x Golden Barb
 
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Lowrider, that is way over stocked. Have you been keeping an eye on the ammonia?

I have a 65ltr tank and had 15 fish in there, tank was cycled but the 15 fish was way too much and found my self putting water in every other day.

Down to 10 now and it seems pretty perfect, everything is where i should be (ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate).

Now have

2 Sword tails
4 guppies
1 Plec (forgot his name)
2 albino cories
1 bloodfin
 
Thanks for the feed back guys I have told her, I think after speaking to her today she understands she may of made a mistake with her recent additions which was the 2 x Honey Gourami and 3 x Endler's Guppy's, before that though even though it was over stocked the fish seemed a fair bit calmer but atm they seem a bit 'twitchy' and agitated.

I'm thinking of upgrading to a 190L tank, there is one selling locally for £50 that I might pick up so I can take some fish off her hands and balance the tank out as I want to get into fish keeping myself.

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My current little 38L Tank that was saved from skipping a while back.



Stock,

1 x Molly

1 x Balloon Molly

3 x Endler's Guppy's
 
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I have learnt a lot over the last few months, lost fish, gave away a few. I was ignorant to how much fish need taking care of.

Fish can look fine but end up dead the next day. The Neon Tetras will die first as they are really weak fish, swim bladder then death.

Buy your mrs This. really good test kit and lasts forever.
 
Here it is almost finished, just need a background and some liquid CO2 to help the plants! :)

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Thanks,

Neil
 
If your tank is anything like mine CO2 will be overkill, my plants grow so much just with the substrate its crazy, every week im having to cut it all back. My CO2 rig rarely gets turned on anymore..
 
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Just had a conservatory put on my house, and with the added light coming in to the back room I'm now starting to get BBA growth which is a bloody nuisance. Not quite sure how to approach it, the lights are only on for 3-4 hours a day at the moment as it is, so I don't really want to drop them any lower, and I don't want to start on CO2. I've got a feeling that I'm backing myself into a CO2 related corner (moving the tank isn't an option).

Any bright ideas?
 
Do a deep clean, then a blackout. This should remove the algea totally, then you can see if you can shield the tank physically, or perhaps apply a filter to the glass of the tank?
 
Makhaira said:
Just had a conservatory put on my house, and with the added light coming in to the back room I'm now starting to get BBA growth which is a bloody nuisance. Not quite sure how to approach it, the lights are only on for 3-4 hours a day at the moment as it is, so I don't really want to drop them any lower, and I don't want to start on CO2. I've got a feeling that I'm backing myself into a CO2 related corner (moving the tank isn't an option).

Any bright ideas?
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This is what you need.

http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/FlourishExcel.html
 
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