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Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Tanks and Equipment => Topic started by: Peterhill26 on April 30, 2018, 06:17:17 PM

Title: Temperature Controller for a Tropical fish Tank ?
Post by: Peterhill26 on April 30, 2018, 06:17:17 PM

What is the best Temperature Controller for a Tropical fish Tank ?

Title: Re: Temperature Controller for a Tropical fish Tank ?
Post by: fcmf on April 30, 2018, 06:45:32 PM

Hi Peter, these threads https://forums.thinkfish.co.uk/fish-tanks-and-equipment/heater/ and https://forums.thinkfish.co.uk/fish-tanks-and-equipment/tank-heaters/ might be helpful as a "starter for ten", and there's a useful tip in this thread re a specific make of heater https://forums.thinkfish.co.uk/fish-tanks-and-equipment/e-type-fluval-heater/.

Title: Re: Temperature Controller for a Tropical fish Tank ?
Post by: daveyng on April 30, 2018, 07:25:40 PM

I use an Inkbird ITC306UK temperature controller. It has various uses including aquarium heating. It has 2 sockets for heaters.

Title: Re: Temperature Controller for a Tropical fish Tank ?
Post by: Andy The Minion on May 01, 2018, 09:48:59 PM

I use a central heating controller with an external sensor... because I work for a company that makes them. There are other reasons though, they (or at least ours) have advanced control algorithms that adapt to the heating characteristics and proportion the heat evenly rather than just cycling on/off. Any external controller will however have advantages over the heaters own thermostat because they are not 'the thing' that is providing the heat and controlling it at the same time and they give an additional level of safety to overheating if a thermostat fails.