My concern is forgetting the heater and it warming the tub up too much for
it to go without heat while I also maintain the temps in the hot tub. Can't
run both at once. After being plugged in for almost 2 hours at 11*F this
morning and only partially thawing the ice off the top, I guess it won't
get them too warm at these temps.

It's also the bird watering station right now, hope they don't mind salty
water of 0.3%. ;o) ~ jan


cover the tub and the 1000watt should do fine. It was 50o 2 days ago and then we
got 4" of snow and the temp is now 7o. my 1600 gallon pond has a plastic covered
lean to over it and a 500 watt heater. The water temp was 56o today, they were up
sucking like crazy so I fed em again. the lilies are still green in there. I will
see if the temp drops by tomorrow. Ingrid

~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
I don't know how warm a 1000 watt
heater can make a 30 gallon tub, but that night, in the teens, dropped it
to the point of the fish having ich soon after.

~ jan