Marineland recall on the stalth pros

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thacarter546

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Marineland recalled the stalth pros and is replacing them with the much cheaper visi therms. this is some crap. I could either get 27 bucks back or a visitherm. I dont use glass heaters, so you may see one up for sale soon. Will be ordering a hydor or via aqua titanium here shortly.
 
Petsmart is not supposed to replace the heater. I disagree with the jagers being the best. I refuse to use a glass heater. the jagers are the best glass heater out there, but Id much rather have a titanium or inline
 
That was my second choice. I already went to big als bought a via aqua 200 watt heater, 2 litres of de*nitrate, 2 pounds of fish food, a pound of staple flake (if you dont use it start, its an excellent staple flake and cheap too), half pound of hikari cichlid staple mini pellets, and half a pound of sinking shrimp pellets, a filter sock, and last but not least a digital thermometer. All for 75 shipped.
 
12 Volt Man said:
problem is, petsmart doesn't even sell arguably the best brand, the eheim jagers.

at least, here in canada they don't. mostly garbage top fin heaters..
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Six months ago I would've agreed with you that the Eheim Jager was the best heater. After having 2 quit a 200 watt and a 150 watt I can't agree. The 200 watt lasted about 6 months and the 150 watt only 3 months. I do still have a 300 watt Jager that's working fine though. It's been controlled by a ranco controller, since I first setup the tank. The others weren't.

I won't run a heater anymore and rely on the cheap internal thermostat to control the temperature. The Hydor theo heaters I used to have were all over the place on temperature. Also on the hydors the setpoint dial was accurate within a 2 degrees when I got them. After using them for 10 months they were all off 7 to 9 degrees.

Now I'm using 3 Jbj true temps. They are great. Although the only downside is the have no out of water safety shutoff. I found this out the hard way, because I forgot to turn one off one day. I am using that jbj controller to control a aqueon pro heater now.

All together I have 3 JBJ controllers. Two of them are controlling the titanium heaters that come with them. The other is controlling an aqueon pro heater. I have 2 ranco controllers. One I'm using with an eheim jager and the other an aqueon pro heater. Lastly I have a reefkeeper elite controlling an aqueon pro heater.

I recommend no matter what heater you use to utilize an external temperature controller.

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