Whats your Temperture & why

[Reef Pilot]

I just use the temp probe that came with my Apex. Seems to be very accurate and shows degrees down to one decimal place. The temp is displayed in nice large font on my display in the sump room, as well as on my my computer, and can also check it remotely away from home on my phone or ipad.

Plus being connected to the Apex I also use it to control my heater and my DIY chiller (better and cheaper than anything you can buy) in the summer.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

I just use the temp probe that came with my Apex. Seems to be very accurate and shows degrees down to one decimal place.

Unless you use a NIST thermometer to calibrate, accuracy is just speculation. Maybe it is accurate, maybe it isn't. How long is it accurate for? Not forever.

[Reef Pilot]

I have only calibrated (although not recently) with other regular thermometers, and at the least it has always been consistent. Have there been reports of Apex temp probes being inaccurate or changing?

I do have a 2nd Apex temp probe (spare) that I could try to see if it is the same.

But like I said, hard to beat the functionality and usefulness of the Apex temp probe. Not to mention, it comes with the Apex, which many people use as their controller.

[Reef Pilot]

I have a thermal imaging thermometer in my shop. I should try that on my tank and see how its temp compares to the Apex.

[kien]

In the winter my tank runs between 77 (night) to around 80/81 (daytime).
In the summer it runs around 79 (night) to 83 (daytime). I don't do the temperature shifting on purpose. Mother nature does that for me

why? Because my tank likes it?