heating

Hey gang, My fish room is unheated; the heat from the rest of the house doesn't really reach it. Obviously, this is not going to work out particularly well for the winter, and I'm already starting to have some problems with it (namely, that I've had to put heaters in a few tanks, and I had...

After reading the many accounts of power loss due to Sandy, I am motivated to put together a bit better power loss preparations... Battery powered air pumps are pretty straight-forward, just need enough D-cells to keep them going. But it is clear that heating is a challenge. Obviously the...

Well, the Fuval heater is set for 77F. Yesterday it was in a dead spot and it kept blinking "LF", so I got an extension cable and moved it to the opposite wall where there were two filter outputs. All was fine until this morning. Heater was red and saying the temp was 79F! Not too bad, but the...