[AquaticLife] Prepping Tank for Betta
Gee, she’s doing so well at room temp I’m almost tempted to skip the heater after knowing all this… I’d hate for it to cook her by accident. 
-Lana
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Lenny V. aka GoldLenny wrote:
> You might want to keep a very > close eye on it and plan to replace the heater since it’s failure could be > catastrophic. > > I have an article on my blog based on an experiment I did with mimicking a > faulty 50W heater on a 10G tank…. mimicking failure with it stuck in the > off position and on position and the temperature swings are rather > dramatic. > With incandescent lighting, you may not even need a heater when the lights > are on but it would be needed when the lights are off.
> With two 25W heaters, if one should fail in the off position, the > other would still keep the water stabile. If one should fail in the on > position, it wouldn’t be able to cook your fish. It’s unlikely both would > fail at the same time. You would notice if the little pilot light was on > all the time to indicate a possible problem. >
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