![]() |
heating top off water?
For those who have a top off system, dyi,tunze,etc. do you heat the water? or just let it pump the water in cold? I've been heating mine since I started with saltwater but was thinking it's probably not necessary.
so what does eveyone else do? I think i'm going to ditch the heater but i'll wait to see what other people do. |
I do not heat mine. Mine tops off severall times a day, and only spits out a little bit at a time. The small amount of water I add doesn't affect the temp at all. And I would assume that if you warm up your water there would be alot more evap, and you would have to fill the ato resevoir up more.
|
No need to heat top up water.
|
I have always heated mine too. But know lots of people who do not. So I am not sure why I do...just always done it.
|
I heat mine as well, just had an extra heater kicking around I guess.
|
Heating your top off water is a waste of electricity imo.
If you added 1 gallon of ice (-5°C) to 100 gallons of 28°C water The temperature would only drop the temperature 0.3°C. Adding room temperature water (21°C) will only drop the temp by 0.069° I'm pretty sure that a change that small would be perrmissible and that your heater flucuates more than that during its cycling. |
Agree that it seems like a waste of electricity. Also, all of the organisms in our tanks will experience occ slight variations in temp in the wild. A temp variation of a few tenths of degree is not going to do anyone any harm.
|
I just never put any thought into it till today. when I get home i'm ditching the heater.
thanks everyone:biggrin: |
:mrgreen:This is a great thread. Energy savings efforts for this week accomplished. I have never heated top off water....and I was not sure why you would. Apparently there are quite a few that do. Hmmm. Interesting.
I hope more people that do heat their water see this thread. Bump for energy savings!! |
I heat mine...If I don't, the goldfish get cold :lol:
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 01:58 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.