Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: heaters
Message-ID: <3833@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 05:37:01 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <24179@bbn.COM> sjencso@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steve Jencso) writes:
>
>I have recently discovered the discounts available through mail-order.
>The magazine 'Freshwater and Marine Aquarium' has ads from several
>mail-order houses. I was amazed at the markup in the retail pet stores.
>For example, the Hagen AquaClear 200 sells in stores around here for
>$28-$30, I found it for $15. 

Yeah, Diatom XL filter, locally $90, mail order $45. GAK.

>As for heaters, there are cold winters up here in the NorthEast and without
>heaters my fish would end up doing the back float. As a warning, I have had
>problems with Supreme heaters. The thermostat occasionally gets stuck and
>you end up having boiled fish for supper.  The tank has to be monitored
>closely when you use a heater to prevent this from happening.

I guess the reason I got away without heaters in canada was that
after an errant home made airlift outside filter dumped the contents
of a 10 gal tank all over my hardwood bedroom floor and caused it
to heave, dear old dad and I sectioned off a part of the basement,
put up walls and piped in a heating duct. *poof* instant fishroom.

The water stayed about 72 al year round, a little higher in the summer.

Here in california, it's not unusual for the tanks to get down to
65 in the winter; nobody seems to mind. Indeed fish live longer
at lower temperatures.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard