How To Hide Filter And Heater In Aquarium

Sorg67 · April 29, 2020

Is there such a thing every bit a hidden heater? A heater that looks like something else. Could await like a stone.

Even a matt black heater would be okay. Something that does not stand up out in the back of the tank.

david1978 · Apr 29, 2020

They do make heater ropes that go in your gravel. Non sure how practiced they work though.

Cody · April 29, 2020

The best I come up up with is just trying to use plants to hide them.

I call up fluval makes one that'southward more often than not black but information technology's rectangles shaped and quite large. They also have one with a mirror finish so the thought is that it reflects of plants and decor to assistance blend in. Simply it's not much of an improvement.

Marineland used to have a Stealth line years dorsum and they were great heaters and "stealth" however after a few years in that location was a recollect because they're was an outcome with leaking.They were the best I ever saw for being like shooting fish in a barrel to hide.

Cale24 · Apr 29, 2020

One play a joke on is to curl some mesh into a cylinder shape, cover with moss, and and then circle the vertical heater with information technology, leaving maybe an inch gap betwixt. Or, if you accept a black background, put the heater in the corner and slide a black piece of plastic (or box) into the substrate in front of it. Tends to disappear if done right.

Mhamilton0911 · Apr 29, 2020

I ran across a visitor that made heater covers.... I'll try to find a link?
They looked similar decorative rock

Here is just one, but in that location are lots more..

3D Groundwork Heater Cover

Sorg67 · Apr 29, 2020

In considering these alternatives, do you need to consider water menstruation?

Fisch · Jun 20, 2020

Did yous find a heater cover?
I originally looked at nether-gravel heaters, but those are difficult to arrive the US.
I now take an inline heater, but that works only with a canister filter. Two options of invisible heaters.

SinisterCichlids · Jun 20, 2020

Jungle Bob Aquarium Heater Cover Freshwater
Here is a link to a heater cover^

I don't know what tank you have or are setting upward, but the smaller all-in-ane tanks sometimes have room to hide the heater in the casing.

You could also put the heater horizontally across the bottom of the tank and hibernate it well.

Y'all could get a blackness heater and too use a blackness background, its very unnoticeable and looks clean.

Fluval Yard series heaters say their chrome somehow blends into the groundwork by reflecting the colors of the rocks/plants etc. Dont know how authentic or well information technology works ...

John58ford · Jun 21, 2020

A good style to hide one is with a section of 3d background, the cheap hollow kind. Most of those can be stuck in the tank with suction cups. If I were going that road (I almost did, had 1 in hand before I built the 3d tank) I was going to put squeegee rubber effectually the perimeter of the hollow back ground to stand it off the tank wall a bit merely keep it fry and snail safe.

Set it upwards so the intake for your hob and the heater sit behind it, drill a agglomeration of tiny holes in the nether sides of the features of the chosen background, and brand sure to distribute the holes to spread the flow across information technology.

Easy math is involved, if you lot utilize a 1/16" drill flake you need almost 65 holes to become the same corporeality of surface area to match your (likely) ane/2" intake tube on the hob. I usually double the holes if I'1000 doing a project like this, information technology reduces velocity at the intake holes and allows some room for error if some holes become plugged. Alternatively, you can cut shapes out of some features and put black coarse sponge in at that place and have a more worry free intake system.

You lot could do a 3d feature in the corner of a tank instead of the whole dorsum, or you could ready an external filter with an inline heater. Sumps work likewise. My 3d tank has the sump built in in one corner, in that nano sump I have a chamber subsequently my bio media chamber specifically for heaters. That hides the heaters for 3 of my tanks, and they estrus very evenly. My newest 29 project has the heater behind the corner matten.

In because these alternatives, practise you demand to consider water flow?

Yes, water menses is very important for the heater to run efficiently if you want an even temperature from edge to edge. Some giant tanks may exist gear up with a heater localized and set up with the flow blocked to add temperature zones for diverse species simply I don't think that'due south your goal. If you were to do a heater cover that doesn't have a concession for flow in the design, the heater will always think information technology'southward the correct temperature equally it heats a very minor area of water. That small area of water will transfer heat to it's surrounding h2o but not at a rate that is comparable to a heater sitting in a higher menstruum location. Likely information technology would rut the tank to several degrees under there target ready temperature with a hot spot the fish cannot access that is the correct temperature.

Additionally, I'one thousand non sure I've ever measured "hot" water in the hob with the heater very close past; but if you recall the thread about heater placement from last yr someone mentioned a possibly excessive temperature in the hob if the heater were as well close. I know I take always said I become the all-time performance from traditional gear with the heater i.5-3" away from the hob intake sponge, that is still truthful in my example. I have monitored temperatures in my sump chambers and in my Hobs with digital remote bbq thermometer to monitor high/low temps and efficiency. You could practise that with your new ready up and tinker until your happy.

So... Which tank are y'all making pretty? Got another thread on it?

idkausernamesoyeah · Jun 21, 2020

if you have filtration you lot tin put it near that so the heat will disperse through the tank, and u can hit to ii birds with one stone with hiding them. a problem with hiding the filter and heater is that it wont be able to effectively go throughout the tank like it needs to. i usually hide mine backside like plants or a affair of wood. i put mine horizontally ontop of the gravel which helps. i also slope the gravel at the end to make it fifty-fifty harder to see. promise this helps!

Sorg67 · Jun 21, 2020

I have removed the heaters from all my tanks. The 40 breeder with the canister heater stays between 76 and 78. It seems the canister is heating that tank a flake. The other tanks stay between 72 and 75. They accept guppies, snails and shrimp. I think that temp is okay. The only fish that might adopt it a piddling warmer is my Betta. He now lives in the 40 breeder with the Rasboras and a few guppies I could not catch. I think 76 to 78 is okay for him. Might have to use heaters in the winter. We do not use heat unless information technology gets actually cold (by Florida standards). Sometimes the business firm temp gets downwardly to mid to low 60's. We turn the heat on if it gets much colder than that. I am not certain how low the tank temp would get. I might take to put heaters in the tanks in the winter time.

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