hI I AM VERY NEW TO A TANK THIS BIG .I need some help i dont know what heater to buy or where to get it from what heater do i need to heat this fish tank The specs are 70 inch 50 inch high 28 width.It came with all the other accesories like filter lighting etc but all i need is a heater i was thinking of buying a 1000w titanuim heater or is that oTT.

Welcome to TR, ronnyv.

Wow, that figures out to over 400 gals. That is a big aquarium. a 1000w titanium heater would probably do the trick but, I think for safety reasons I'd opt for two 500w titanium heaters. First, a 1000w heater could soften, melt or even crack things it got to close to. Second, if it failed you would have no heat until you noticed it had failed. With 2 heaters you lesson the chance of cooking things and if one failed the other would provide some heat until you replaced the broken one.

The down side is the cost would double. But, anybody setting up a 400+ gal aquarium isn't going to worry about the cost of an extra heater, right?

I have a Titanium heater and think they are the way to go.

Dick

Yeah you see the the prob for me it was a gift as one of my relatives who owns a restaurant decided to change the interior of the place so he had two fish tank so he asked me if i wanted one so i decided to take it for free as it would be a chalenge and paid for its removal to my house will definetly follow up on your advice

OK, then you can well afford the expense. Go first class!!! :rotfl:

Hi Ronny and :welcome: to TR.

WOW! Great gift! I agree with the 2 heater advice. Have you kept a saltwater tank before? What are your plans for it, FO, FOWLR, reef? What is the filtration method? What kind of lights? Does it have a sump? Let us know how we can help.

the 70 inch tank which i am now relazing is actually a reefing tank as it has many features ive seen in other tanks on this forum i was going to use it for freshwater fish keeping.

It has 4 light tubes 2 yellow 1 pink and 1 blue with 3 modes of light colours

a air pump with connecting tube to a green/blue stick to which when air passes through it creates small bubbles along the width of the tank

A 30 inch filter biggest one ive seen

And now ive purchased two 500w heaters

My questions is this tank as i think for marine fish not tropical ?

Do i need other equipment to start reefing?
e.g Like some kind of filter in barrels under the cabinet which keeeps the water circulating in and out of the tank like in the fish store.Or any other equiopment other than what i alrady stated

Is the airpump i have a protein filter ?

How do i make tap water into salt water do ineed to buy it from the fish store?

Just doing some reading is a sump essential what equipment do i need to buy a sump

can i just add saltwater with the equipment i have?

Go read what I posted in your other thread.

i posted the picture pls let me know what you think

it doesnt quite figure out to be 400 gallons but close to it i have figured it out using this calculator.So in the long run might save me some money with salt mix etc


Quick Calculator for Aquariums (http://animal-world.com/encyclo/information/calculate.htm)

Thanks for that link, ronnyv. What was the gallon figure?

Dick

Its about 170 -140 gallons Not as big as 400 i tottaly belived you as well thinking that $400 dollars on salt mix when i see 100 gal boxes for like $30 .i was thinking 100 gal is very small if mine is 400 +

That's a big spread you're giving (170 - 140). the calculator should have given you an exact figure. What were the dimensions again?

Dick

this is what i got on RCs calculator ...

Using the following input parameters

Tank Length = 70 inches
Tank Width = 50 inches
Tank Height = 28 inches
Tank volume is calculated as

Tank Volume = 424.2 Gallons

Me too Bobby. That's why I'm confused by his post of 170 to 140 gal.

Scratching my head.

Dick

I am gonna go and measure it to make sure 140-170 is uk/us dont know why as a gal should be a gal and different manufacturers have diffrent labels.

I Been Measuring But Getting Diffrent Figures Even From The Makers Site