Types of Aquarium Heaters

As we saw previously, the temperature of our aquarium is vital for the development and correct maintenance of our animals and plants that inhabit the marine ecosystem that we have at home.

The vast majority of tropical fish, which we put in our aquarium can live correctly in an aquarium with a water temperature It ranges between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius. Even some animals may need warmer waters than this, so it is important that we know the fish that we have in there and their needs.

It is important that we bear in mind that to achieve the necessary temperature, for the correct development of our aquatic animals a heater or heater that we can graduate to achieve the required temperature.

It is for this reason that we bring you some characteristics that we must take into account in the heaters that we put in our aquarium.

It is important to note that the most common heaters have a type of resistance found in a glass tube that has its own thermostat regulator so that the temperature is constant and there are no variations in cold or heat. This type of heater, generally, is submersible and can be fixed in one of the glasses.

Remember that if you have a very large aquarium, it is important that you have several small or medium-sized heaters instead of one very large and powerful heater, which, as we have already seen, could be harmful to the animals that live inside the aquarium.

If you are going to use two heaters for an aquarium, it is important that they are 150 watts, and that they are placed at a certain distance, that is, they should not be glued or too close together. In the same way, I recommend that the place where you put them is the place with the greatest movement of water, either at the outlet of the filter or near the diffuser, in this way there will be a uniform and balanced diffusion of the heat radiated by the heater.