Re: [GSAS-Member] Room temperature tank

[Paul M Wallace <pwallace@u.washington.edu>]

I agree with Steeve, the heating requirements are likely one of the smaller parts of 
electrical heating.  The filters (25W Eheim II, 21W 802 power-head <mine>) are 
also reasonable.  The real hog is lighting (At 2W/gal= 250W X ~10 hours)

There is a product available called "Kill-a-Watt" which goes for ~$35.  This monitors 
actual usage (between wall and plug) and might help you make decisions as to what goes.  On a side 
note, I think all but 1 bulb in our place is a screw in PC rather than the standard 
"incandescent" which saves a lot of energy too.

-Paul

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, steev ward wrote:

> If the room is 68F and you set the heater for 70F the electrical use is
> minimal if not negligable. Using powerhead type pumps also dispenses the
> waste heat into the tank.
>
> Other candidates for 68-70 degrees (I'd like to hear more):
> White Cloud Mountain Minnow
> Danios
> Weather Loach
> Bloodfin Tetras
> Corydoras
> Glass Perch
> Most Killifish
> Most Gouramis, Paradise Fish
> Some Barbs(?)
> Most Plecostomus-types
>
> Steev
>
> haika@drizzle.com wrote:
>
> > I have an unheated tank here at work with Endler's livebearers. Typically
> > the temp is pretty uniform...about 72. I have co-workers who have kept
> > honey gouramis, neon tetras, Amano shrimp, wild-type guppies and platies
> > in unheated tanks. The plants do fine as well, but we do mostly low-tech
> > non-C02 injected tanks and have mostly cheap stem plants, java moss and
> > java fern.
> >
> > Betty Goetz
> >
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