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How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:50 pm
by Maddamay32
I have always had to keep my heater on all day or my temp drops almost immediately, do you guys keep it on all/most of the day as well?
I have a 30 gallon tank with 1 100w heat bulb I keep in 1 side of the tank.
Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:52 pm
by crabby33
I keep mine on all the time.
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 10:27 pm
by doth
I keep mine on all the time, but with a thermostat for if the house gets too hot in summer
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:05 pm
by Xenocrab
We have all of our heaters on thermostats
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:06 pm
by Xenocrab
Regulators are a recommendation
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2019 8:35 am
by wodesorel
Once the heat gets turned off on a tank, it'll drop back to room temperature really quickly.
Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2019 8:38 am
by crabby33
That’s why I only turn off the tank lights, but not the heater when I leave to go home for the weekend.
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:44 pm
by Overmountain1
Yep- all the time basically. Adding a thermostat ASAP too- it’s just simpler than the constant monitoring that requires.
Our power went out the other day and I covered all my tanks immediately (one is a tote for the moment) but they all still dropped to 73/75 over the next hour or so.
I was not happy with that bc of my molters but they’re hanging in there.
Point is, yes, it does drop and balance with room temp fairly quickly!
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Re: How long do you keep your heater on?
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:00 pm
by RiNiKy506
Crabs do require day/night cycles. I believe everyone that has replied has heat mats, not bulbs. I have an ultratherm heat mat that I keep on all the time connected to a thermostat.