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Mister Gardener wrote:

I've always placed my tank
heater horizontally about an inch above the gravel, that simple
placement provides a bottom to top convection wave of sorts

That brings up a question. I always see heaters on the back wall of a
tank. Is there any reason they can't go on an end wall?

I'm planning on a rotating powerhead at the left corner of the back wall
and a stealth heater on the right end wall. This should give me plenty
of circulation past the heater.

The way the tank is going to be situated in the living room, the end
placement of the heater is the best way of hiding it with the fewest
plants. Now I just have to find the least conspicuous (and most
readable) spot for the thermometer :-).

BTW, I got some more cork to experiment with. I should have some
reportable results in another month or two.


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Larry Blanchard wrote:
Mister Gardener wrote:


I've always placed my tank
heater horizontally about an inch above the gravel, that simple
placement provides a bottom to top convection wave of sorts


That brings up a question. I always see heaters on the back wall of a
tank. Is there any reason they can't go on an end wall?

I'm planning on a rotating powerhead at the left corner of the back wall
and a stealth heater on the right end wall. This should give me plenty
of circulation past the heater.

The way the tank is going to be situated in the living room, the end
placement of the heater is the best way of hiding it with the fewest
plants. Now I just have to find the least conspicuous (and most
readable) spot for the thermometer :-).

BTW, I got some more cork to experiment with. I should have some
reportable results in another month or two.



I always put my heaters near the intake of my filters so they will
circulate the warm water...seems to help keep the temp more even...

i set up my filters on my 75 gallon with PVC pipe. i basically plumbed
the back of the tank so it would have a low wall profile. i think im
down to 2" from the wall.

i run twin magnum 350's and just run the return back up into the tank
with a pvc 90* elbow on the end. i can rotate the elbow to change the
flow direction in my tank. the nice thing is with enough teflon tape the
stock strainers from the magnums will seal in a 1/2" pvc pipe.

at the other end i just used hose barbs and plumbed the final 18" with
the hose that came with the filters.

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:22:27 -0400, "
wrote:

I always put my heaters near the intake of my filters so they will
circulate the warm water...seems to help keep the temp more even...

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. There is something to be said for
allowing uneven heating, allowing a difference of a degree or two in
different regions of the tank. Like in nature. Though there's probably
not enough to make much difference in a well filtered 55 - maybe in
much larger tanks.

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