I recentley decided to buy a fermenter heater ive been told that aquarium heaters do the same job! Im wondering if most of you guys use them and what your thoughts are on them?

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My basement is a constant 63*f so I too had to find a heating solution.

First thing I researched was a heating pad like for sore muscles..(I use 6gal buckets for fermenters)
Can't use these because every one I looked at had a 1 hr auto shut-off.

Next I thought about an electric blanket like for your bed but discarded this because of the mess around the buckets especialy doing sugar washes.

So I went with the Aquarium heaters... the small sized ones... and other than a few pieces of rubber coming off them they work pretty good. The 15w (for 5 gal aquariums) keep the bucket at about 85*f and the ferments realy took off.

The little bits of rubber worry me but my wash will finish at about 10% and with filtering I'm hoping all will be well.
And since it is all going to be distilled I should be ok.
V..

----Update....
After 3 days use...
They seem to be fluctuating a bit more now.. between 75 and 80*f
cost was $12 for the 15w (only had 1) $17 each for 2 of the 20w.
V"