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pinballtrader48

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I am seeking advice and opinions from some reefkeepers with more experience than I have. I have a 29 gallon tank, approx. 32lbs rock, power compact lights, clown, coral beauty, yellowtail damsel, few crabs and snails, huge sebae, several curlycue anemones (it keeps spawning new ones), very small cold water anemone, Lg red brain coral, a few mushrooms and lots of 2 different types of polyps. I know, that is too much, you are thinking, but this tank is absolutly maintenance free, and all parameters are right on the money. Only problem is a few mushrooms are not doing that great. Not dying, just not getting bigger or multiplying. I have a dual bio wheel, prism skimmer (24/7) and good sand bed. Tank just celebrated 1 yr anniversary.
On to my topic- I have a visitherm 100W heater on the far left side in the back. I have 2 perfectly good visitherm 250W units someone gave me. It seems like having a backup, just in case, maybe set 10 degrees lower would be a good idea. Or conversely, I could put the 250 where the 100 is now, since it is just rock over there, and move the 100 over to the other corner, where there is more population. My wife says "if it works, don't f*@k with it. What do you guys think?

Pete
 

CraigLampe

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I have always been a "if it works, it could probably work better..." kind of guy, but that has gotten me into trouble a couple of times...

I would think a 100W heater may be just too small for your tank, though one of the 250W heaters would be just perfect...

One word of caution, you do have to be careful to have a little flow near your heater, or some unsuspecting creatures/corals/live rock may get very hot and they would definitely not like that. This seems like it is a phenomenon which would be worse with a more powerful heater (250W).

I had a similar predicament with my reef tank recently... there was a tiny little powerhead which during the setup of the tank got accidentally buried under a lot of live rock, I decided to go fish it out one day (I think it started making a noise or something) and after about 90minutes I had the little bugger in my hand, but I had completely torn up that corner of the tank, was this worth all of the struggle... sometimes it is necessary to do these extreme re-arrangements...

good luck![/i]
 

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