hydrofarm thermostat Question

Ok so bps will get rack and be plugged into ranco, so with my endless supply of 20 Longs, I will be keeping a few kings and milks in them. ok, So i have heard some people just pluggin in the one UTH to the stat, but can i plug a surge into it. I was thinking 4x 20 longs into the surge then into hydrofarm thermostat. would that be ok.

I would not recommend this treatment at all. I would actually not suggest a hydrofarm at all they have poor accuracy (+/- 4ºF) , a fairly large hysteresis (3ºF) and swing.

dont tell me that, i got recomended them by this sit, urghh done ordered one

Just do some research. I use this tstat to run a 17" UTH, but it's only one. Find out what the maximum wattage is that the hydrofarm can hold and stay under that. Make sure all of the UTHs are the same size/wattage. It should work OK as long as you monitor your temps well.

I currently have herpstats controlling all my UTH's but have used hydrofarms in the past and would recommend them if you on a budget. If you do use a hydrofarm I would just recommend to use a thermometer that can confirm the temp range your UTH is putting out.


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You may get some temp variation using the power strip so you will have to play with it to get a happy medium.

There are thousands of hydrofarm users out there that do not have any problems with them. ;)

Hydrofarm fell out of favor with me when the first one I bought failed after just a few months of use. I was lucky and had it paired with a uth that stayed at lower temps than most so no harm was done.

I would never plug a strip into a Hydrofarm tstat. I would only set up tanks like that with a good quality tstat.

I would feel terrible if I lost several animals because I saved $60 and went cheap on a tstat. I will never go cheap on a tstat again. Once was enough.

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Originally Posted by KMG

Hydrofarm fell out of favor with me when the first one I bought failed after just a few months of use. I was lucky and had it paired with a uth that stayed at lower temps than most so no harm was done.

I would never plug a strip into a Hydrofarm tstat. I would only set up tanks like that with a good quality tstat.

I would feel terrible if I lost several animals because I saved $60 and went cheap on a tstat. I will never go cheap on a tstat again. Once was enough.

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thanks, after searching and ready about them, atm i only have one bp and one corn, I will through put corn on hydrofarm and well bp is on ranco, I knew from the beginning i was gonna have to bite the bullet, I may get a herpstat 2, to control them all in one stat. but the hydro will be back up till i start my project. wsh could find a good herstat used :)

do they fail on or off, or is there no way to tell, id rather have a cold corn since my rep room is 80 than a scorched corn

Mine failed ON. It was blinking and displaying strange things but only sending sporadic power to the uth so in my case it didn't overheat. I also do know when it started this so there is a chance I found it soon after it went crazy and it didn't get a chance to overheat. I can not say for sure though.

I think your setup plan is a good choice for the situation.

I think Herpstat might be the only t-stat that is guaranteed to fail in the off position? Don't quote me on that but I think that's a safety feature that others can't guarantee at this point, even though they may fail in the off position some or most of the time.