Re: [Killietalk] Heat the room not the tanks

["Al Anderson" <augustand at sbcglobal_net>]

If the room is insulate I would heat it. If it is not design a flow thru 
system that will let you heat the water in the sump. A lot of small heaters 
in many tanks is just begging for trouble .


Al Anderson
Breed your fish today before man's
over population kill's the wild supply.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt kaufman" <igotadose at hotmail_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:09 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Heat the room not the tanks


>> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:29:44 +0100> From: "Aaron Sedgwick" 
>> <cassidykeats at hotmail_com>> Subject: [Killietalk] Tank Heating> To: 
>> killietalk at aka_org> > Hello!> > I'm just getting into killies and have 7 
>> 10 gallon tanks and 5 2.5 gallon > tanks. It's getting really cold here 
>> in Chicago and my family will only let > me set the thermostat to around 
>> 65 degrees. On top of that my killie room is > above the garage and so 
>> it's a couple of degrees colder than that. I was > about to place an 
>> order for a bunch of submersable heaters when I had the > idea of heating 
>> the entire room. The room is about 10' by 13'. Would it be > cheaper to 
>> heat the entire room as opposed to buying individual heaters for > each 
>> tank? I did a quick search online and found the Honeywell HZ-2300 > 
>> Compact Heater which goes for about 30-40 bucks and it has a seperate > 
>> temperature control so that I could reach around that 75 degree mark that 
>> I > want to be at. Any help would be greatly appreciated!> > Aaron !
> Sedgwick
>
> Visit your local Lowe's home center. I recently populated a fish closet in 
> the garage (which is normally between 30 and 45F) with a bunch of tanks of 
> killies.
> I can easily keep the closet warm enough (70's-80's) with a heater I 
> picked up from Lowe's that was recommended by the list. It's 1500w, though 
> I never run it at more than 600W. It's an electric/blower combo, I've 
> always been a bit leery of those oil filled ones, nightmares of what 
> happens if they get knocked over.
>
> Individual heaters stink. Most of them cut out or cook your fish at 
> inopportune times, the quality of the product is variable, they take up 
> room in the tank and they give the fish another escape alley (i.e., they 
> make the lid a little trickier to build.) Heat the room, not the tanks.
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