RE: heating lots of little fry-rearing containers?

[<haika@drizzle.com>]

Can you refer me to a picture or diagram? I'm not moving water between the
containers right now....just air. I can figure most stuff out if I see it
(weak grin). Right now 'install PVC bulkheads' is just a series of
mysterious words (blush). This is a fish-world thingy I haven't explored
yet.

The floating jars in a larger tank and setting containers on heating
pads...now that I can handle <G>. But I do like the idea of moving water
across larger filtration pads to culture infusoria at the same time. I
just don't know how to do it....the sump set up is mysterious too. Just
gotta see one. One of my male honey gouramis is finally showing a black
head again after all the disruption of the tank as I moved his fellow
gouramis out and about. I expect he'll start spitting bubbles soon. I'm
trying to get everything ready for baby gourmais.

Betty Goetz
Bothell, WA

> Betty:
>
> Assemble your pump/overflows so that everything collects in a sump (a
> spare 10 gallon aquarium works fine.  The more volume; the bigger the
> sump.)  If your containers are plastic you can install PVC bulkheads for
> water in/out. Place the heater bellow the minimum water level so that
> there is no chance it could ever dry out.  The sump is also a great
> place to do mass water changes etc!  The best filter that I have heard
> of for fry tanks involves cutting a piece of foam the size of the
> container (fry one side/ return other) so that a large volume of surface
> area exposed and the fry can pick at inforia too!  Throw in a few happy
> plants and you should have some VERY happy fry.
>
> -Paul
>
> Subject: heating lots of little fry-rearing containers?
>
> Besides heating a whole room to 80+F or buying individual heaters,
> what's a good way to heat a bunch of little (1.5 - 2 gallon or so) fry
> rearing containers? They will have sponge filtration and I can rig that
> up to filter several tanks/containers off one pump, but I can't figure
> out how to do that with heating elements. I suppose there has to be some
> kind of in-line heating for use with canister filters, but I don't plan
> to use that kind of filtration. This would be for honey gourami fry
> (hopefully!) and maybe some threadfin rainbow fry.
>
> Betty Goetz
> Bothell, WA
>
>
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