Re: [Killietalk] Tank Heating

["Bob Hargis" <bhargis at abcs_com>]

I live just a little south of you in Terre Haute, IN. My fish room is about 
8X12 and I use a Honeywell oil filled radiator type heater. I couldn't find 
the model number on mine but it sold for about $60. It has the digital 
temperature on it.

My fish room is unheated by the rest of the house and has two windows in it. 
I set the thermostat at 80 but with the cold weather we are having it stays 
at 70 at the level of the heater and the upper tanks in the room are staying 
close to 80. In my opinion it does a very good job.

If you were to use heaters in your tanks you would need about 12. Total 
wattage of somewhere round 800 watts total. The heater is a 1500 watt heater 
but should work out well in the room.

Hope this helps

Bob Hargis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Sedgwick" <cassidykeats at hotmail_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:29 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Tank Heating


> 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
>
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