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anybody know of any? like i pad you can place a small 1.5-2G on top of?
just thinking of some ideas :lol:
just thinking of some ideas :lol:
Of course anything can malfunction. That isn't the point. An item not designed for being around water has a higher risk from getting wet than something that is designed to be in water. You never know what can happen. Dropping the water bucket, a tank or bowl breaking, even if you think it's not possible, could have much more severe consequences from a heating pad than from a tank heater. Waterproof does not mean watertight. I now have 4 tanks, and each has a submersible heater. I would never set any of them on a heating pad, especially after my 10gal started leaking.Certainly any man-made heating element could malfunction, whether an external heating pad or a submersible heater. You can find all over this forum people whose submersible tank heaters have malfunctioned and their fish have died. I don't think an external heating pad is at any higher or lower risk of this, in fact since the pad/cord is not moved at all during water changes I think it is safer than taking a heater in & out twice a week. Now if all you have is one tank, then certainly a submersible heater is the way to go. But, if you have 7 individual containers like I do, I can put 3 on each king-sized pad and 2 on the regular sized ones. Also, getting small amounts of water on them is no problem since they are completely sealed and enclosed in a waterproof cover.
please just get a small submersible heater with a thermostat.anybody know of any? like i pad you can place a small 1.5-2G on top of?
just thinking of some ideas :lol: