On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:55:44 -0800, "Daniel Morrow"
wrote:

Bottom posted.
Mr. Gardener wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:31:23 -0800, "Daniel Morrow"
wrote:

Summary - about a month ago one of my silver
dollars got caught between the mass of hornwort and one heater (I
felt terrible for not noticing in time and I deservedly felt stupid
for not anticipating this since I used to always unplug my heaters
when lowering (changing) water but recently stopped unplugging them
since I thought the auto-shut of feature would prevent burns but I
learned in this case the auto-shutoff prevents damage to the heater
- not any unlucky fish (in other words the heater gets hot enough to
burn fish still even with the auto-shut off feature) and that silver
dollar experienced one big bad burn,

I mentioned this item before, and I don't receive any commissions on
sales, but after I found a burned fish I discovered the heater guards
made by Tronic and I'm using one on every heater I have from now on.
They come in different lengths, but I've found that one size fits all
three or four of the brands of heaters that I use. Less than five
bucks. I have no idea how long these have been on the market, but I
guess I never noticed them on the shelves or in the catalogs until I
needed one. A couple of my heaters have the temperature setting
numbers on the side and this heater protector is designed to allow me
to see the numbers and the sliding red thing.


http://www.bigalsonline.com/catalog/...71;category_id
=2913;pcid1=3231;pcid2=

-- Mister Gardener

Thanks for the product recommendation - I will buy a few of those now that I
have at the very least some reassurances it will fit on my ebo jager heaters
which is why I didn't try one before (I have seen them in catalogs). In my
turtle tank I have 2 250 watter ebo jager heaters that are in relatively
closely fitting pvc pipe which I had drilled hundreds of small holes for
circulation and that keeps my turtles at a good temperature and the tank is
a 55 us gallon tank that is only filled up to about 5 inches including the
gravel substrate and I STILL have a hard time being confident in the heaters
as I have been running them at 93 degrees fahrenheit and I know for a fact
that even though I have good water circulation the water that has radiated
outward from the heaters is a little on the cool side so I think maybe I
just need to clean the pvc to unplug those holes I made if they are indeed
clogged after all of this time. This must be the 3rd head scratching anomaly
I have run into so far with this hobby, for better or worse I guess (not in
the marriage sense to be clear though). If anything these mysteries may
solve themselves over time anyways (through observation, etc.) and a lot of
people love to watch mystery movies too anyways, I guess I have made my
point. My turtles have never been burned but drilling so many holes in more
pvc pipe for all of my tanks would be a LOT of work and your solution is
better anyways, plus I don't want to unreliably crank up my other heaters
because of the pvc pipe as it might cause trouble and I seem to have less
temperature control with the pvc over the heaters and I am sure the tronic
sheaths are superior in design too. Thanks again, good luck and later!

I've never owned an ebo jager, so I could not try the fit of the
tronic protector, but it uses flexible plastic tabs inside for a one
size fits all. I'm 99% confident it will fit your heaters. If it
doesn't fit yours, tell them I said to give you your money back.

-- Mister Gardener