Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!csg
From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Aquarium Design equipment -- rubbish?
Message-ID: <21623@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 2 May 88 06:06:27 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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I have a 20 gallon setup using entirely Aquarium Design equipment -- tank,
heater, pump, UGF, light, even the (plastic) plants. The price was right ($70)
so I kindof ignored the exceptionally cheap construction. Now I'm not so sure.

My second heater in six weeks is now dying -- contacts arcing so badly that
they don't stay closed long enough for the element to get hot. I can replace
it under warranty (again), but I don't want to risk thermal shock to my fish
(again). So I'll probably throw out the AD heater and replace it with the Rolf
Hagen submersible that has worked so well in my other tank.

Is all Aquarium Design stuff like this, or am I just unlucky?

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