For those who have fish rooms.
Do you heat the room, tank, both or other?
Do you heat the room, tank, both or other?
chriscoli
Administrator
In the old house, I had fewer tanks and no door to the fish room, so I heated the tanks. In the winter the house had a very comfortable humidity level.
In the new house I heat the room but I don't try to maintain a really warm room. I aim to keep the lowest level of the racks at at least 70.
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In the new house I heat the room but I don't try to maintain a really warm room. I aim to keep the lowest level of the racks at at least 70.
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mchambers
Former CCA member
I do the tanks. Most of the year, I only heat two of the tanks. In the dead of winter, almost all the tanks have a heater in them.
Leffler817
CCA Members
My growout tanks are in the garage so I heat them with heaters.
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dogofwar
CCA Members
My fishroom is in the basement. I heat a few tanks but leave most of them at the temp of the room...
Matt
Matt
Becca
Members
I heat the tank because my ************ husband won't let me heat the room.
Also, I do keep some cold water fish, so they probably appreciate that I'm not heating the whole room.
Also, I do keep some cold water fish, so they probably appreciate that I'm not heating the whole room.
JLW
CCA Members
I heat the room because no line on earth could support that level of amperage.
CichlidAddict
Members
I don't have a fish room, but have 2 tanks in the living area, 2 tanks in the heated section of the basement, and 2 tanks in the unheated section of the basement. All my tanks have heaters, but I only sized them to raise the ambient temperature by no more than 10F. The difference between heating the tank versus heating the room is the evaporation rate. In winter time, the evaporation rate is highest in the unheated basement, next in the heated basement, and least in the living area corresponding to increasing ambient temp or decreasing temperature differential. In summer time, there is no difference.
cabinetmkr39
DavidG / CCA Member
Heaters in Tanks in a finished heated room
Reed
Very Fishe
Heaters in the tank
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DiscusnAfricans
Past President
I heat the room; rotating between a dehumidifier and a space heater. All but 4 of my tanks are in an enclosed room; the rest are in a part of the finished basement. Those tanks don't have a heater unless temps get below 70 in the house, but most don't seem to mind.
for the dehumidifier that also adds heat. 
rich_one
Members
Well, I don't have a "fish room", but I have 4 monster tanks and 2 40 breeders that border my basement. All of my tanks are individually heated.
-Rich
-Rich
