heaters= the weakest link?

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chirojosh

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Okay you can spend thousands creating the setup you want. You can find multiple filters of different brands that work well and are quite reliable. Seems strange to me that reliable heaters, which can also kill your fish, seem to be hard to come by. Seems that nowadays that every heater from Ebo-Jager(heard over and over that they're not what they used to be years ago) to Stealths,heard multiple people complain about them especially around the one year mark. Anyone else find it frustrating to spend upwards of $1000 or more only to play russian roulette with your fish over 20-30$ pieces of equiptment?
That's where I'm stuck. Not knowing which to get, I only want reliability! I dont want this 30$ piece to screw everything up!:(
 
I have NEVER!!! had any issue with ANY Visi-Therm heater. They rock
 
chirojosh;764525; said:
Hopefully its as good as it sounds and costs
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Me too. :)

But like you said, after spending a couple thousands dollars you don't want to have a fish fry on your hands. So hopefully I got what I paid for.

I read many good reports on them and only one bad report versus many many bad reports for virtually every other heater on the market.
 
But what I have done is simply done away with heaters once and for all.
I keep mainly lungfish, which are at room temp, and are perfectly happy in such. The rest ... are simply put, relatively hardy and flexible temperature wise. Moreover, in a dorm room, I simply keep the room itself warm, and that's that.
 
Bud8Fan;764515; said:
After pouring over tons of information from a few fish websites. I decided to go with a Bio Therm controller, controlling two titanium heating rods.

http://www.tsunamiaquatic.com/catalog/item/1972015/3218782.htm

and two of these:
http://www.tsunamiaquatic.com/catalog/item/2648792/3227991.htm


I don't have a history on it as it is not set up yet, but after my reasearch on the subject that is where I invested my money.
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Well I have a 75g tank and only the 250 watt and 500 watts to choose from, would the 250 watt be enough you think?
 
It easy to find high quality heating equipment. Temp. controllers with titanium heaters from www.jehmco.com . Many people including myself, have used these without problems for years. The problem with most heaters you find in a LFS, is they are made cheaply to keep costs down and appeal to the masses. The low cost thermostats built in to these types of heaters just won't hold up to years of use in most cases. Some are better than others. Some will say " I've run my $20 heater from Walmart for 5 years without problems". Well, I say you are lucky, and I would replace it soon, before it craps out on you while you're at work frying your prized fish. Since I run multiple heaters in sumps for the most part, a dual stage controller works best anyway. Won heaters are OK, but watch out for the controller that comes with them. I have had 2 of those fail. I replaced the controllers with a 2 stage Ranco controller from jemhco, and still use the heaters in a sump. You can buy Ranco controllers at other places of course, but they will cost you more.
 
That's why I typically don't use heaters but I do on some. For my oscar's tank I use an Azoo brand titanium heater. Have not had a problem with it and is was pretty cheap, $20 something bucks online.
 
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