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My 200 watt visitherm stealth burned up last night
It killed my prized pair of Angelfish (Breeding constantly but eggs were either consumed or someone had birthing issues) and a few growing bosemani rainbows and a pictus catfish trio :(
The heater stuck on raising the tank temperature to 93 degrees :irked:

The story. Upon joining this site I asked and researched and 99% of folks recommended Marineland visi therm stealth heaters almost no one had issues it seems back then. I promptly bought 5 one for each of my tanks including a 50 watt for my 10 gallon (The only remaining one that works... It will be replaced anyways)

First a 200 watt on another 55 gallon had stray voltage . No deaths but I got shocked a wee bit

Second occurrence a 100 watt on a 20 gallon just plain stopped working (no heat) No deaths

third occurrence a 200 watt on a 90 gallon stuck on and nearly killed my prized bichir tank it raised the temperature to 91 degrees and luckily I caught it in time. After some rehab all the bichirs made it.

Now my FOURTH!!!! occurrence
200 watt stealth stuck on again (New unit but not the newest model) killing the fish mentioned above.

ALL of these heaters mentioned were less than 13 months old :screwy:

Visi therm stealth is GARBAGE in my experience. Be warned

I have since switched every heater over to Ebo Jager as per 12 volt mans suggestion and could not be any happier.

Taylor Carswell


PS Should have mentioned all heaters were sized properly to the tank. None were allowed to run dry ever and were never abused or dropped...

Also the models mentioned were all purchased within a week of each other and were not the newest model where they finally broke down and dropped an extra .10 cents each unit and installed a little light to let you know when the heater is on. Just the black units with the red dial on top.
 
lol I sure did ! I sent you a PM ... Your ears must have been burning :)

I also mentioned using them successfully so far as per your suggestion.
 
12 Volt Man;3956070; said:
sorry for your loss.

pick up an Ebo (Eheim) Jager as a replacment. they are (and always have been) the best heaters on the market IMO.
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I agree with go with the ebo's. it really sucks when you lose fish to crappy equipment.
 
I had my Stealth almost cook my $600 group of Tropheus the other day lol, Called Marineland and they sent me a brand new one for free, you could always call them and tell them how many have burned up and just sell the new ones they send you :-)
 
I used to be an run all Ebo Jager heaters. No complaint with their heater except that it is made of glass. Now, I'm still running Visi Therm stealth on my tank. I need to hook up my temp controller just in case the heater malfunction.

Sorry to hear about your fish dude. 93F shouldn't instantly kill your fish if you got good aeration. In my summer my tank is 92F daily.
 
Sorry about your losses :(.

On another forum, someone had something similar happen with an older model, and Marineland sent them the Stealth Pro as a replacement. I've only heard good things about the Pros...although I understand if you wouldn't want to risk it again.
 
Yeah they are sending replacements watch the FS section here 5 of their new "pro" heaters will be up for sale cheap lol

There will be a disclaimer :)

Thanks for the support guys.

And yeah I thought 92 would have been tolerable for a short period but it could have been higher at times during the day. I caught it at night when the ambient temp was around 63. It took me around 12-24 hours to catch it as its in my guest bedroom/ fishroom :)
 
o.O

I have one of those heaters...luckily my thirty gallon isn't set up right now...

Scary stuff that be
 
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