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I bought a heater for frankie...its one of those long bulbs kinda things, that you dump into the water. I put it at 27degrees celsius...should i leave it on all the time...the water gets down to 22 degrees if the heater is not on at the moment...
i heard somewhere that the filters can fizz out and fry the fish? is that true?

ps frankie is doing SO well <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> im so happy he's recovered... <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

pps i have a 3.5 gal tank and a 25W submersible heater...

You need a thermometer, as long as the water stays at 84 or less that would be 29 Celsius he is fine to have it on all the time. I would think it would be better for him to have stable temp 24 hours a day than have it climb during the day and fall at night as long as it is not climbing too high.

Glo

well yea..thats right, i was thinking that too...only thing is, i cant be checking the thermometer all the time!
im just scared of it overheating for some reason...
but he had it on all night last night and he's very happy atm, and the temp is 80 degrees farenheit (lucky my thermometer has the farenheit temps too hehe..)

just make sure you r check your thermometer regularly, like when you feed or when you siphon...make it regular. When it starts to fritz (could be a year, or two or three, depends on a lot of things), then you just replace it.

cool <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
puts my heart at rest, so i wont worry constantly about fish soup <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> cheers!
jazz

Just since we are talking about heaters, i thought I would mention that I am using a reptile heater under mine. It is a huge heater, so I covered most of it with a wood cutting board and just a small amount under my fish tank. It brought the temp to 78, so it is better than where it was........72.