heating a res.

Im using 25 gallons rubbermaid tote as my res. whats the best way to heat it with winter coming up? will a fish tank heater that sucks to the side wall work? will it melt the rubbermaid of weaken it at all?

Any one had this issue before?

25 gallon res is huge. might want to try a bunsen burner just kidding. I have a small dwc setup i use a stealth heater. goes write in the bottom of the res.
The name of it is Marineland stealth shatter proof heater. I have the 50w good for 15 gallons you can buy the stealth 100 it's good for 30 gallons. hope this helps

^^ i remember you getting a heater in your thread koolhand. I was gonna out up a link to your journal. I guess you beat me here lol


Tom

25 gallons is not huge and yes you can use an aquarium heater, I wouldnt let it touch anything, it could melt the rubbermaid.

I have my stealth heater attached to a piece of glass that is about 8"x8" and lays at the bottom of my 10 gal. res., works great!

tom__420 said:

^^ i remember you getting a heater in your thread koolhand. I was gonna out up a link to your journal. I guess you beat me here lol


Tom

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Thanx Tom.

I think 25 gallon is huge when I'm only using 3 gallons of water per week for my DWC grow.

^^^^I just set up a three gallon DWC to start some clones. I'll let you know if it works good or not

Tom

I only use 1.5 gallon of water in my res for my dwc.

Just out of curiosity.... why is a heater needed at all? If you run the water pump 24/7 and have an HID light wouldn't that be enough to keep the res. at a decent temp?

Plus if you are doing a rubbermaid bubbler of sorts then I assume it's inside... so the grow room temp. should be warm from the house heater alone.

Maybe I just don't get it ... but my big concern... even in winter is keeping my res water cool.

When I first started my res was outside On my three season porch where my grow is now it's still pretty cold I wouldn't rely on your lights to keep your water warm. pumping it is not gona do any good. your plants will start to withdraw becasue of cold roots. so keep warm buy a heater.

Thanks for all the help guys! I think im going to try using a piece of glass and a stealth heater. thanks secret.

The res is under a custom 2'x4' flood table and sits on a concrete floor in the basement. Our winters get as low as -10deg. and the floor is a huge coldstone (somewhere between 30-50deg.), but i keep the air temp at 69deg.

i love this site and all the members

if you can get 2 pieces of 2x4 under and get the res off the floor doesn't have to be much that will help a real lot. lets the air pass underneath the res so it doesn't absorb the cold. let me know how that waorks for ya.

thanks bro, ill try and let you know in a couple days if theres a difference. it is usually the eaziest solution, that never occured to me

wow, a thread with warmth and love....no fighting, just people helping each other acting like adults. i gives me wood!!!!!! +rep to all ya'll

This is what it's all about man rep to you... here smoke this...

well it has been about 4 days since i slipped the 2"x4"s under my res. and it has risen from 50deg to just above 60deg. so in about 5 days the light and heater will be on and i should be where i want to be!

thanks for all the help, see you in the battlefields


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