Heater question/ multiple heaters??

Lynsey

Lynsey

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I have a 75 gallon long tank, which is only 16" tall. _I have/had an Ebo-jager 250W heater in the tank. _The problem is that it is about 18" long so I have to tilt it. _It looks ugly, and I recently noticed my Oscar was attacking it. _Today, I took it out and replaced it with two Ebo-jager 125W heaters. _They are only like 12" so they fit nicely in the corner of the tank behind the powerhead. _My thoughts were, that one it would be harder for the Oscar to get at them in the corner (I also put plastic heater guards on them), two if one heater malfunctions or dies it would be less of a problem/disaster as long as the other heater is functioning, and three, it looks much nicer when the heater is not going across the back of the tank. _

Is there any problems with this?? _The fish store guy said it would be fine, but they say lots of things that arn't true:)
 
You ought to be able to be lay the heater down along the bottom of the tank, along the back. On the thought that heat rises, I would presume that you could only get better temperature circulation by having the heat source low. Plus, you can hide it that way.

As to doubling on the number of heaters, it seems like a waste to me. Since heaters seem to fail most likely by getting stuck "on" and overheating the tank, you're not correcting for the problem at hand and just requiring more stuff to be in your aquarium.

You've already done the best thing which is get an Ebo. As far as I'm concerned, it is the single best aquarium product out there.

Val
 
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