Re: does the heater bother fish?

[owner-killietalk at aka_org (by way of Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>)]

I would worry  more about the space the heaters allow open to let the fish
out if they are not the submersible kind.  Heaters are usually not a good
thing with killies.  If your room is above 72 degrees and there is a full
cover on the tank it will be at about 75 degrees with lighting.  That is as
warm as most killies like it.  Heaters can stick and cook fish, and if they
are the hang on type they allow an opening for killies to get out.  Killies
are excape artists.  I have had bivitatum get out in the little space left
by an airline at one end of a tank and the tank was a 10 only half filled.
I had some real nice killies get out of an uncovered 5 gal with only 1 inch
of water in it.I had two such tanks nest to each other with a pr in each
tank.  In the morning I found both females in the same tank, one male in a
different tank and never found the other male.  This was out of an inch of
water!
Bill Shenefelt.

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