After having the heater upright for two days and set at 75F, it's kept the
tank at a steady 76 degrees, according to my thermometer. I do have an
AquaClear MINI running on this tank and providing good circulation. I
thought I liked submersibles, but I've discovered that all of my Hagen
Compact heaters eventually get condensation inside, which sort of scares
me. In addition to this, there's the diminished aesthetics with the
electrical cord running through the background. AND, sometimes the suction
cups fail, which is a pain in the butt, but the Ebo-Jager ones stick on
mighty strong! I had problems moving it around, actually, because the
suction was so hard to break. In the long run, that's probably a good thing.
I put my plants in this tank on Tuesday. I'm already seeing marked
improvement! Many of the stems I added were so ragged and hardly seemed
worth saving, but I have hope for them, now. I even saw a bit of pearling!
YAY! I LOVE pearling... And there's little doubt in my mind that I'll be
able to grow the L. inclinata 'green' dense enough to hide a good portion
of the heater. My planties look so much happier!
On a side note, I noticed in my shrimp tank that one of my bumblebee shrimp
is now carrying eggs! Looks like tiny caviar. You can tell that there's not
hundreds of them, like with Amano shrimp. I do hope they hatch. I lost a
second bumble bee shrimp a couple of days ago. I bought five from The
Aquarium several weeks back. Now I only have three. I don't know what it is
about these guys... I don't even add fertilizer to this tank, so it's not
metal toxicity. Hmmm..... I have one Amano shrimp with eggs. If I can empty
out one of my 2.5-gallon tanks (move the contents to 10-gallon), I may try
to raise the larvae, increasing the salinity to 30g/liter and everything.
Should be interesting...
Hope all's well with everybody. Happy planting! :-)
-Naomi
At 05:19 PM 10/1/2003, you wrote:
| | Naomi,
The one thing I like about Ebo Jaegar (besides the fact that they are one
of the best heaters out there) is that you can turn them on their sides
when they are submersed. The benefit of this is that the thermostat is on
one end, and the heater coil is on the other. This way the thermostat can
take a more factual reading of the surrounding water, without being
affected by water heated by the heater. When you stand the heater up
vertically, the thermostat is directly above the heater coil, and can be
affected by heated water as it rises up (because the warmer water will
rise...) pass the thermostat.
If I am wrong on this account, I would sure love for you to pass my
thoughts onto your friend at Ebo Jaegar and send me a reply.
Thanks.
Michael Laflamme
| | Hi Naomi,
You don't *have* to submerse the Jaeger heater. If you look at the heater,
near the top, you'll see a horizontal stripe on the side for the minimum
water line. The heater will still work fine if the water line is slightly
below this line, but since the sensor is there, the temperature may not be
entirely accurate, as it may be also influenced by the ambient room
temperature.
I'm good friends with the Jaeger manufacturer, and he confided that he
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would
| | rather have people use his heater "standing up" as a regular heater, rather
than only submersed, because the rubber won't harden as quickly as when
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it's
| | used submersed. The heater is so well constructed, that it can be submersed
indefinitely, but it's more than OK to also use it as a conventional
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heater.
| |
Hope this helps
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Naomi Mizumoto"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 16:37
Subject: [detritus] Ugly heater
| | Hi, All!
I apologize - I'm probably going to be posting a lot for the next couple
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of
| | days while I'm setting up my 10-gallon tank. Again, I really appreciated
the help I got with the slippery stand top situation. That grip liner is
really somethin'! I had to lift UP the tank to adjust the positioning
because it wouldn't move side-to-side. It's perfect.
Right now I've got the tank filled halfway with water and my AquaClear
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MINI
| | trickling away and homogenizing (it's making me want to go to the
bathroom)... I'm also using my old 50W Ebo-Jager, but I just noticed how
ugly it is. It'll take some dense foliage to hide that thing! I'm almost
tempted to use one of those cheapo Hagen heaters you hang vertically off
the rim. I know Ebo-Jager is like the Volvo of aquarium heaters, but I'd
like something less bulky. What do y'all use, and where do you place it?
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Do
| | you remove the heater when you take photographs or are they just
well-hidden by the dense vegetation? I was looking through the "small
tanks" category of the 2002 AGA aquascaping contest, and I don't see any
heaters at all. There's no mentioning of them anywhere, either.
Thanks. I'm grateful for all of the help I'm getting, here. Erik,
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good to
| | | | hear from you! Hope your move goes quickly and easily. I despise moving.
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If
| | you're planning to rent a moving van during the weekend, be sure to make
reservations well in advance. We learned the hard way... :-O! Thank
goodness we have or Odyssey ;-).
Sincerely,
Naomi
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