Need a heater to go to 110 F

Catten
  • #1
Before anyone tells me that 110 F is too high for any fish, I know this! The heater isn't for fish, but I wasn't sure where else to ask about this.

I like to collect bones as a hobby and I am in the process of removing grease from a few bones I've collected, but the degreasing process moves much faster and more efficiently when the water is heated to around 110 F. My degreasing setup is a 7 quart sterilite tub full of water with several mason jars sitting in the water with more water and bones inside of the mason jars. I need a heater that can heat this sterilite tub to a high enough temperature.

My main issue with my searching has been that most heaters have a thermostat built into them that keeps the water temperature around a safe level for fish, but I want the temperature much higher than that. The ones that don't have these thermostats are usually the cheap tiny bowl heaters that don't get anywhere near warm enough. I currently have one of these cheap heaters in the tub and it's just not cutting it, the water is barely luke-warm.

Does anyone know of a way I can heat this tub to around 110 F?
 
Al913
  • #2
I think that the heater you are searching for is more of the industrial kind instead of those meant for pets. No aquarium heater will be that powerful since after all the heaters are built for aquariums, so sorry . Hope you have better luck. Most of use here are only use to the aquarium heaters.
 
UniqueShark
  • #3
Any aquarium heater would most likely break at that temperature
 
Catten
  • Thread Starter
  • #4
Alright, thanks guys. I'll look into industrial heaters then!
 
Al913
  • #5
Good Luck! I think with bones can't you get bugs that clean them (, I forget what there called just looked at them a few months ago) or do those bugs just get the meat off the bone?
 
Wraithen
  • #6
The bugs work but you don't just get them. You send the bones off to a guy that has the beetles and wait and then pay for the service.

To speed it up some you could leave the bones in the tub outside in the sun to warm it up, or fill a canner and boil the water and dump it into your tub. Are your bones small enough to fit in a canner? You could just leave it on the stove on low all day, and cancers are cheap.
 
Wraithen
  • #7
You could also sit the bones outside under a tarp or something and let the bugs do what they do if you don't have people that will mind the smell.
The smell is also a potential problem for the stove top method. Check out taxidermy. There's hundreds of ways to do this I'm sure but can't remember them all.
 

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