what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
it to you heating it up with you talking about inline water heaters today how's
everybody doing I hope you're doing well in today's video we're gonna talk about
inline water heaters some of the pros some of the cons when you can use them
when you shouldn't use them and some of my experiences with them so here we go
okay first things first remember when you were a kid and your older sister or
brother you're in the shower and your brother sister flushed the toilet and
then all of a sudden your wonderful hot shower got cold that's because the hot
water tank in your house started to get more drain or you just drip ran out of
hot water okay that's because 99% of houses in the u.s. anyway oh that's
before Europe have what's called a tanked water heater these are usually
heated by probably gas in the most part maybe electric the problem with this is
is that when the water gets too low it has to fill back up and reheat so you're
just gonna get cold water in your shower let's talk about this with aquariums
okay let's talk about this with aquariums anybody who's kept fish for a
reasonable amount of time understands the importance of water changes there is
no substitute there is no alternative water changes water changes water
changes water changes water changes water changes water changes the easier
it is to do water changes the better off your aquarium is going to be in most
situations so you have to make it easy on yourself to do water changes this is
my 220 gallon aquarium I recommend that people do around a 50% water change you
can get away with last 2025 whatever regardless and the 220 gallon aquarium
if I want to do a 50% water change here comes the math 50% of 220 is 810 gallons
where's the problem dusty the problem is that Dusty's water tank my hot water
tank at my home is about 50 gallons I like to reference my wife in these
videos a lot happy wife happy life one of the things in my loving wife does
for me is she does my laundry sometimes I actually think to myself when she fold
my underwear and puts a shirt and then another set of underwear on top of that
why can't she put them on underwear in the same pile and then I realized I
haven't done my own lawn in about 10 years with my wife ran
decide I want to break it to you like this sometimes while my wife is being
the saint as she is and she is doing my dirty laundry she is running the washing
machine what happens when my wife is running the washing machine and I tried
to do it 220 gallon aquarium 50% water change 110 gallons guess what day no
more high water so what do you do do you tell your wife to stop doing your
laundry heck no you got to figure out alternative you got to do your water
changes late night which is what I got away with for quite a long time but the
reality of the situation is even when my wife is not doing my laundry I only have
about a 50 gallon water tank at my current house so 50 gallons pretty much
all I got for the two 20 starts to get cold so dusty why don't you just get a
big old giant tank in the greenhouse well my 1.0 greenhouse is actually very
small so to have a giant massive tank out there would be ridiculous plus I
don't have any natural gas lines ran out to the greenhouse natural gas it's
probably cheaper than electric I didn't want some massive big giant water tank
out in the greenhouse not to mention I drain it all the way down same problem I
got in the houses or any 50 gallons I'm done I got like 2,000 gallons of water
in the greenhouse a full tank water heater isn't gonna work it enter is this
stable l-tron okay inline water heater or tankless water
heater look there's a lot of fun things you can buy with your aquarium buying an
inline or tankless water heater is one of those such things however I will tell
you this inline water heaters are not perfect when it comes to their use with
aquariums I actually talked to chuck Kramer about this out in st. Louis
before I actually went and purchased one here's the deal with inline or tankless
water heaters the first problem is this they heat water on demand and when it
hits the actual inline water heater from there once it's pushed through the unit
the unit will raise it up to 86 or higher there's a problem with that okay
the problem is this while we're not actually paying to constantly be heating
a giant tank water heater like you do in your homes typically with an inline
water heater it heats on demand but these are set to be used in a shower I
should create my own in London water heater the problem is they're created to
be used in a shower sink dishwasher whatever their minimum setting is 86
degrees and guess what happens when you set your temperature at 86 degrees and
you want an 86 degree water into your tank unless you're keeping some really
crazy discus you're going to probably kill
your fish okay so you have to cut the water here I've got an entire video
about how I cut the water in my inline water heater but I think it's important
to know that just because you buy an inline water heater unfortunately even
though I have this stable l-tron tempera Plus which has a setting that makes sure
it doesn't drop below a certain temperature that bottom default
temperature is still at 86 so I still have to cut the water now here's where
it gets fun once you get the piping figured out for an inline water heater
it is a game changer folks no more do you have to worry about when you run the
water tank down to low and all of a sudden the water gets cold when you have
an inline water heater and you get the temperature mixing with the hot and cold
you can use a mixing valve I don't I use a little bit of a ball valve or whatever
but when you get the temperature mixing right and it's coming out of the inline
water heater 86 but you're cutting it with I don't know sixty degree water and
you're getting right around 70 to 78 your money your money money money money
money and you will never go back to a regular water heater which is part of
the problem I have with my 220 on aquarium let's be real about it here
folks this is a 220 gallon aquarium thus
aquarium is taking some abuse because I got spoiled that's right super duper
uber - were spoiled by having an inline water heater out in the greenhouse and
not in my home so I wish I had a little inline water heater in my house I do not
so the 220 well I would love to do massive 50 percent water changes and
just throttle the water the reality of it is the setup and the sink that I have
in my current basement sucks because I cannot keep the water temperature
straight because nine times out of 10 my wife is doing either laundry or the
dishes running on the hot water when the hot water gets out all of a sudden I
have ice-cold water coming in so instead of doing relaxed chill let it run let it
flow water changes like I do out in the greenhouse and the 220 gallon aquarium
actually have to sit there and hold it and babysit it also can't come out too
fast every now and then I have to sprint over
to the sink and make sure that the water is turned off forever because it's
coming out ice-cold so do me a favor folks drop me a comment on what you
think about inline water heaters do you own one have you ever considered owning
one what questions do you have about the sizing I kind of rush this video because
I have a meeting with the city today but driving a comment on your inline
water heater love's desires or questions tank on everybody Lena