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RE: does the heater bother fish?

Why Bill, I think that I have discovered your problem, you don't keep enough
water in your fish tanks. Maybe if you kept more than an inch of water in
your tank your fish would not jump out and your heaters would not cook your
fish......Sorry Bill, I was just kidding, I've been up for a couple of days
with very little sleep and my sense of humor is just slightly askew.

Actually I use a dremmel tool and cut the heater openings in the hood to the
exact dimensions of the heater for my small tanks. I have only two larger
tanks which are not sealed one contains Nothos which just don't seem to want
to jump and the other is heavily planted and none of the fish therein jump
either. None seem to want to. All my tanks have heaters and I have not had a
jumper in at least a couple of years. And you are right if you keep the
temperature in your home high enough many killies will do well without
heaters. But most people turn the heat off or at least down when they go to
work or to sleep these days. And these days with the cost of heat I'm not
sure how many people heat their home up to 72 degrees anymore, even when
they are home.  If you have a fish room which can be heated efficiently it
makes sense to heat the room. But for those of us who can't heat the air the
electric fish tank heater is the only viable option. Although I have seen
heaters cook fish I currently have 14 tanks in my basement right now. Some
are very tropical South American Annuals.  It is not much over 60 degrees
down there right now and it will get colder by sunrise.  My killies would
not much appreciate room temperature tonight.


Peace,

~RJ~

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:35 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: does the heater bother fish?


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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