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• Purchase: Immersion heater • Considerat­ions: When buying a portable immersion heater for troughs or buckets, safety is your overriding concern. Size is also important; get the correct wattage for the volume of water you’reyoure lookinglo to keep warm. • Options: Heaters for large tanks, which typically run betwbetwee­n 1,000 and 1,500 watts, are available in sinsinking or floating varieties. Smaller heaters, suitable for warming a single bucket of water, run between 250 and 1,000 watts. Both types of heaters have similasimi­lar features. Look for models that shut off automatica­lly when the desired temperatur­e is reached, when the water level is low or when they are removed from the water. You’ll also want to see heavy plastic or aluminum casing around cords and a mechanism for keeping the heating element from coming into contact with the trough or bucket itself. • Cost: from roughly $40 for a single bucket heater up to $100 for a large trough heater.

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