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Old 01-05-2008, 06:53 PM
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Assume that your heater thermostats will eventually fail. Limit your risk by using 2 or more (undersized) heaters. It is extremely unlikely that they will all fail at the same time and failure in one won't be enough to kill your tank.
There's my advice! That's what I do. I've had one of the two stick on, and it only raised the tank temperature by 2 degrees because it was undersized.
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