Can I Bury My Heater?

[Noahsfish]

I have a 2.5 gallon shrimp tank that ATM is empty. I had one of those tiny aqueon 10w heaters but it heated my water to 90+ every time. So now I have a giant marina 25w in there that does the job.. Wiu the sponge filter I have hardly any room and it looks very ugly. So, can I bury it under the sand? It's a glass heater.

 

[Fluval-1200]

No

 

[az9]

on the box of my heater it says not to.

 

[zoopkamol]

Nope will overheat and crack glass then short out and prolly kill fish

 

[techen]

The reason heaters never overheat and kill themselves as they always have water running over them. Burying would stop the waterflow and kill the heater.

 

[Noahsfish]

Ok, thanks guys, guess I'll just stick with a giant piece of glass than murdering my future shrimp.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

You may not bury a heater before it dies.
 
Depending on your setup, there are other options.

 

[Noahsfish]

You may not bury a heater before it dies.
 
Depending on your setup, there are other options.

You may not bury a heater before it dies.
 
Depending on your setup, there are other options.

Such as?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Depending on your setup?

?
 
What are you wanting to heat? What sort(s) of filter(s) are you using? Do you have substrate?

 

[Noahsfish]

I'm not sure what you meant by what I want to heat, so I'll just say 78 farenheight. Sponge filter. Black sand.

 

[MBOU]

You can get under gravel/substrate heater cables. You pay out for them and they aren't generally used for heating tanks as such but in such a small tank I guess it would be possible? Or maybe not.. they are about 2m long lol
 
TMC heaters are tiny but I really do hate preset heaters. (and this is assuming UK which you might not be...)
http/catalogue.tropicalmarinecentre.co.uk/Detail.aspx?sku=5761&lang=en

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Substrate heaters are the best option for your setup. But they wont be the cheapest ether.
 
Some filters have built in heaters. There are inline heaters for use with anything that has a hose for the return such as a canister filter.
 
I have seen folks get a larger hang on filter than needed and fit a heater into that.
 
I would suggest getting a 5.5 gal tank instead might help more than anything. I kept a pair of 2.5s (filtered with Tetra Whisper minis) for a while and decided one 5.5 was preferable. The 2.5s were up for under a year, the 5.5 has been up for about 8 or 9 years now. A 2.5 is so small there really isn't much room for the equipment, but you already know that