low electricity heater?

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knifemaker

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Hi guys, I am going to be moving this summer to a house that is "off the grid" we will have no electricity at first and then eventually what we can get from a wind generator and small generator. The inside temperatures will likely get below 60 degrees at night since this is Alaska and we will be heating with a coal stove. Does anyone know of a tank heater that could keep my tank warm enough to keep my tetras alive and healthy? How cold can tetras get? I have black skirts, serpe and some little ones with a blue back and red fins in a 29.
Or do I need to just get rid of the tetras and set up a tank with cold water fish like dollar sunfish? Actually I am planning to set up a tank like that anyhow but am looking for a way to also keep my tetras.
Thanks,
Josh
 
I don't know how cold they can handle (some mad scientist might know...RTR? :laugh: ) but I wouldn't be surprised if they survived well enough. I would be surprised if they acted normal and had normal coloration though. There is one way to find out... :hang:

Alternatively, maybe you could rig up a heat exchange of some type out of small tubing (likely copper) that would be filled with water that was heated somehow by the coal stove. Run the pipes back and forth in a pattern the size of the bottom of the tank, fashion a protective layer between the pipes and tank and you'd essentially have an under gravel heater...under the tank! Might take a little trial and error. :D

Where there is a will...there is a way :idea2:
 
Another fish that would work is White Cloud Mountain Minnows. They'd survive at 60 and well below without a problem from what I've read.
 
maybe have another smaller tank sort of like a sump near the window and let the sun heat it up and circulate this warm water in copper tubing so the heat exchanges into the aquarium. or just get white cloud minnows and 1 gold fish lol.
 
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