Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Heaters!

There are many good heaters, I think the easiest would be a digital one.

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> From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
>To: Tropical Fish Club <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:19 PM
>Subject: [tropical fish club] Heaters!
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>The 8 gallons every two days would work for me better as my water has to
>stand several hours to cool off.
>The tank is now 77 degrees. As our house is cooling a bit as the outside
>temps go down a bit.
>I do have a heater that came with the tank but I don't like it. I turn the
>top dial until the light comes on and
>it is very hard to turn. So I try to turn it back down until the light just
>goes out. And then bump it up until it goes
>back on to get it set to heat the tank a degree or so. But no matter how I
>try this dial turns a good quarter inch
>before I can get the light to come on or off. I don't want to heat the tank
>too warm and I don't want to have to
>watch the temp in the tank constantly to get it adjusted to 78 degrees.
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>Can anyone recommend a good heater that has a better control dial?
>Thanks!
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>-------Original Message-------
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>From: mailto:sevenspringss%40wmconnect.com
>Date: 09/24/12 14:28:05
>To: mailto:tropicalfishclub%40yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Connie's cycling tank - 9-23-12
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>Connie,
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>Looking at your water parameters of late yesterday, I notice the Ammonia,
>Nitrite and Nitrate are all elevated, even if not exceedingly so. To
>maintain them less stressfully, you may need to increase the PWC quantity by
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>least another gallon if you prefer to make them every two days.
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>You may recall, that in the early morning of September 18th, that I
>suggested making daily PWC's (or 4 gallons). As I don't believe 4 gallons
>was
>enough -- although I don't remember for how long it was until you next
>changed
>the water -- you might try 5 gallons each day if your schedule allows it,
>otherwise, go to 8 gallons the next time if you're going to do PWC's every
>two
>days.
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>Ray</HTML>
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