Just a warning to all....I had an heater in my tropical tank a few years
ago....it gets cold up here in NH and it was maintaining the temp for my
mollies and catfish while I was at work and the temps in the house would go
down to high 50s......until while at work it malfunctioned and I came home
to green water, a disgusting smell and 12 dead fish....the temp went up to
175F.....the poor things......moral of the story....buy a good
heater....check it frequently.....and keep the environmental temp in the
room close to where you want the tank to be so the heater is just for
emergency cold snaps......I learned the hard way.....

Sneaks

"Gunther" wrote in message
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In article ,
uter says...
Does anyone have any thoughts on using a heater purely for maintaining
a
constant temperature. Any comment would be most helpful.

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Goldfish don't really need a heater as they like the cold water. If the
water
gets too warm, they get lethargic. Heaters are mainly used for tropical
fish.

This is absolute rot. As any goldfish keeper will tell you, as the
water temperature goes up, so does goldfish activity. When it
goes DOWN they get "lethargic" as do all cold-blooded animals.

If you raise the temp high enough, yes, your fish will be
dead = very lethargic.

Heaters are mainly used where ever one desires a constant temp
for the protection of the fish.
~~~~Christine~~~~
Did you know that "a lot" are 2 separate words? Yes, really!

So is "bad advice."

Gunther