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Heaters
- Thread starter joeb558
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Eheim Jager
Never had a problem. Very reliable. Very accurate. Only brand I use.
Never had a problem. Very reliable. Very accurate. Only brand I use.
I should have mentioned that the heater has to go in the tank. I don't have any room in my sump. Not sure glass is safe? I remember an owner of a LFS in Manalapan was killed by a broken glass heater years ago.
+1
Jager's have glass twice as thick as other glass heaters. They are the best. The only potential negative is that they are long.
I'm happy with my Fluval E-Series
I actually have two of the fluval E series and I am not 100% happy with them. The LCd screen was nice at first to see the temperature but now i just cant stop staring at the two bright green glows in the tank. A couple times too, one heater would say 70 and the other would be at 78 so im not sure what the deal is there. the water temperature isgood but i cant speak for a variance. I will probably be going with either the hydor inline heater or the eheims. the inlines are much more efficient than regualr stick heaters but Im just always worried about the leak.
I use JBJ heaters on my tanks. Work great so far, just over a year on both tanks. Got a new 500W for the 120 and they now come with suction cups instead of the magnets. The magnets were one of the reasons I got the heaters in the first place.
Edwardw771
NJRC Member
tagging along I need new heaters too. Those Cobalt heaters look nice to bad they didn't sell them for big tanks.
Big tanks = no good heaters. I have been asking how the big systems do it and never get answers. I saw an inline heater mentioned on tanked once, but could never find any such thing.
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Edwardw771
NJRC Member
I asked the Zen Masters in Reefing on Facebook. Lets see what they all have to say. So far its titanium heaters with a Ranco Controller[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]. I have never heard of a Ranco Controller anyone here use one? [/FONT]
Check out Aqua Logic Inline Heaters. Expensive, but can handle large volumes.
I think they make them in stainless steel and titanium.
The only inlines Ive heard of are the Hydor Eth.
http://www.hydor.com/prodotti/show/famprod/9/list/3
Anyway you look at it I can only see an inline heater working for a larger tank. They are going to be much more efficient than a stick heater just because of the water passing over them.
Just to bring up the jäger again, if you have 1"between baffles they will fit nicely right between them since they are quite thin.
These are the inlines heaters they make for bigger tanks.
http://www.championlighting.com/home.php?cat=1507
I thought about it but 1k for a heater just seemed excessive.
http://www.championlighting.com/home.php?cat=1507
I thought about it but 1k for a heater just seemed excessive.
I will probably go with the jager. Unless I can find a titanium heater with the same reliability as the jager. I am currently using an Aqueon Pro. I just want to replace it before it fails. From what I hear that is very common.
Good choice!
Now my two cents. If you have a working heater, I would advise that you spend your money on buying a controller. Regardless of the brand of heater you have, they will fail. And the failure you need to protect your tank from is the heater getting stuck on. A controller will keep that stuck-on heater from cooking your tank.
Oh, and still buy the Jager as a back-up when that Aqueon Pro craps out.
