Aqurium Water Heater????

[woodmort]

OK, you're going to do what you want anyway but I still will not recommend using them for nonaquarium use (there are many I wouldn't recommend for aquarium use either) and I probably have as much experience with aquariums and their heaters as anyone. That's why I built a room for my aquariums that I heated with a propane heater rather than individual tank heater--had close to 2000 gallons with African and S. American cichlids as well. Bred, sold and wrote about them.

 

[destinduck]

Didnt the cost of propane eat you alive? you are right there are horrible heaters but also a bunch of great ones. I also had close to 2000 gallons of Africans, for many a year if you bought really rare african cichlids in n.w. florida they were from me

I would still recommend them to the O.P. It would be up to him whether or not to use the metal ones that wont break or the glass ones,it just depends on your application.

 

[jmagill]

Yes you had experience. The problem is it is not current and ongoing. I am assuming that from what you have posted.

The newer products on the market have moved past those old problems and are very capable of doing the job we ask of them in a very cost efficient way. I had one of the heaters in my farm equipment box all summer.
I was in an out of that box several times a week and it has been knocked around lots. Still works great.

 

[destinduck]

thats one of the best things about them as opposed to others.VERY COST EFFECTIVE

 

[woodmort]

Quote:
I had the room--12 by 36--so well insulated it could have been heated with a couple of candles plus this was back in the 90's when propane was a lot cheaper. I got most of my cichlids from African Imports in NJ--used to go down and wait for them to unload shipments from Malawi or Tanganyika--or American Cichlid Assoc. breeders. A lot of the SA ones came from breeding stock that friends that brought back from fish collecting trips.

 

[destinduck]

Woodmort, you lucky dog! I had a friend that would get them shipped to us from a big importer from up there named Peter (same place if memory serves me). Ill never forget when I got my first furcifers(moliros) and "blue Zaire" fronts when they first came in the country. Still have a pr of their babies from that last colony in my only tank left(Frontosas in 150 gl) Although now they are huge! Dang, Im getting old and Im getting off topic but that brought back good memories.

Now Im obsessed with ducks instead of fish even thiough Ive been a charter boat Captain most of my life.

 

[Organics North]

Ive been a charter boat Captain most of my life.

so another words you are really full of fish stories...

(I personally do not mind the talk about the fish..)
I always dreamed of a tropical tank...

However more down to earth, I have considered a large tank in the greenhouse to raise feeder fish for the chickens and use the water for the plants...

(Kind of a little closed loop system, plants, fish, chickens all in a symbiotic relationship.)

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[kgriffith]

I just set my waterer up with an aquarium heater. My waterer is a pvc j that uses atmospheric pressure to maintain water level. I could not use any of the poultry water heaters with this setup. I put a rubber cap on the top spliced the heater wire and ran it through the rubber and sealed it with silicone. Hopefully it will work. The heater is a solid epoxy style that will kill the heat if the waterer is empty. Its 50w bc i figured it would work less to maintain temperature. Its also plugged into a gfi as are my lights.

I had a 120 gallong reef tank for a while and i used to use the crappy glass heaters to keep my restocking water in 35 gallon trash can the saim temperature as my display tank. They broke often and shocked me a lot. The newer epoxy/titanium heaters are coming with more safety features so i would not automatically dismiss them for certain set ups.

 

[destinduck]

I bet funonahonda has alot to ponder now. Organics I love your greenhouse idea. They used to call me" The fish guy" now its "the duck man". I tend to go "overboard" on a hobbie.

 

[Organics North]

Oh ya I love byc..
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