Quote: I knew I had seen plastic waterers on cookie tin heaters somewhere!
I would be leary of it tho, would take some extensive testing of all variables before I'd be comfortable.
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I have read of folks successfully using a cookie tin heater on a plastic bucket or waterer. I would think it might work if the heat source was not too hot. Different people in different climates, different coop set-ups, different cookie tin heater designs, different wattages of light bulbs...all way too many factors to sift through to know if your setup is going to work or melt your bucket and/or burn your coop down. I personally wouldn't do it, it just sounds too risky.
The cookie tin heaters have never seemed like a good idea to me. A hot light bulb resting on dry bedding separated only by a thin sheet of metal?! Perhaps I don't fully understand the design, but all the designs I have seen look rather dangerous to me. I know lots of people on BYC use them and I am all for DYI, but I don't trust this one.
The nice thing about the stock tank de-icer is they are *designed* to be used around animals AND to be used outdoors. After just one season having used both the aquarium heater and the stock tank deicer, I can already see that the deicer is going to be longer lasting and safer.
Ditto Dat^^^
......Tho I am trying out another AQ heater, a better one this time..... if that fails, I'll break down a go with stock tank heater and 5 gallon bucket.
