I am wondering if an aquarium pump with a bubble tube would keep the water from freezing? (as in, moving water does not freeze unless it gets REALLY cold?)
FYI regarding electric cost
we were running four 1500 watt heaters in our stock tanks and I had $500 electric bills last winter
I changed over to the 250 watt heaters and so far, my power bill has not been over $150.
The 1500 watt heaters keep ALL ice off the top of the tanks
the 250 watt...
This is the other heater for 27.86..the only difference is it does not have the floater ring, but you can see it is advertised as a pail heater.
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-250-Watt-Heater-Floater-Safety/dp/B002QXN1EQ/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1324594073&sr=8-9
I highly HIGHLY recommend this one
I bought four of them for stock tank heaters for our horses, and had been using a fish tank heater in the 5 gallon bucket nipple waterer I made. I had a flash of inspiration and ordered one of these for the bucket.
I bought it off of Amazon and they have...