This message is from: "Lois Berenyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a question about the fish poop, once having had an aquarium I hated to clean. What happens to the fish waste products. Do the fish recycle that as well as the algae and dropped grain?
I have a comment to make about tank heaters. When we lived in NJ we had used them for years without incident except when one of the steers pulled one out and left it on the ground. But we had an interesting incident one year with a mystery. We had run the electric underground to the heater in the tub. The horses drank from the tub without any sign of upset. The tub was near the gate for easy filling or topping off. All the horses except one would go through the gate and the one who pulled back and went slightly wild had gone through that gate before. Then it occurred to us that he was the only one shod and when we turned off the heater he would go through the gate but when it was on he would not. Rather than re-do the electric we disconnected the heater and removed it and had no further incidents. After that we insulated the tubs and covered them and did away with all the heaters since each one would run up the bill about $50 a month x 4 tanks. Lois Berenyi now horseless in sunny, shirtsleeve North Carolina The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
