What heater are you using?
 

SO, what are ya'll using for heaters? I'll be needing more heat capability once I fire up 300 gallons of water and looking for input on heater brands. ANy thought's?

I'm not using any heater on my 300g tank, I put glass lids on instead :mrgreen:

Most of my heaters are Jager or Visitherm. Both have a good reputation in my tanks. All are glass tube heaters placed in the sumps.

Aqueons so easy to set and a hard plastic outer tube and lifetime guarantee

I've been using nothing but Jagers, but one just spazzed out in my LR holding tank yesterday and stuck on. It was like a hot tub in there.

I'm honestly leaning towards the JBJ Truetemp 1000W for my new build. I think it would be nice to have the controller with a seperate probe (for those who don't have a reef controller).

Since they worked out their early temp probe issues, they seem to be doing well.

Thanks for all the input so far. I'm truly surprised not more people are running titanium heaters! When I had 2 Jager's crap out on me and stick on I bought what I could find locally and got 3 - 300W Aqua Heat Titanium heaters from a hydroponics/plant place. They have an external temp sensor and controller and I've been pleasantly surprised by their performance. Their actual calibration is a bit off (difference between actual water temp and the numbers on the dial), but I have a stand alone digital thermometer that I use to set their temp and it's worked really well.
I was hoping to get more feed back on Finnex and Blue line. I thought they were supposed to be decent heaters but so far only one person on here is running the Finnex. Hmmmm...
I like the idea of running several heaters that no one heater can cook the tank if it fails.

Aqueons as well in my main tank and titanium in my mantis tank. The thing that I really don't like about titaniums, at least the one I have, is that it is electronic and when the power goes out it resume the temperature of 79F always, not what it was set at before (77F). So when ever I unplug it it's changing the temperature. I had to put it on a controller to keep the temp at 77F.

Aqueons are shatter proof.

I am not so worried about cooking the tank if the heater gets stuck because I put them on an aquarium controller, I am more worried that the heater would shatter and electrocute everything in the tank, possibly me in the process, that's why I stay away from glass heaters.

I was looking at the Finnex titanium with controller as well. They look good, and are decent for the money. I just can't tell wether or not the controller comes with an external temp probe. If so, the only thing they are missing is a digital readout. Those knobs scare me. :lol:

From what I have read, the Finnex have reliability on their side.

i run 2x300watt ebo jager heaters and 1 800 watt jalli titanium heater on my 500G

I run 3 x 250w Jager heaters on my 180G all running through my controller.

One of the nicest units I have seen are these:

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/cobalt...le-heater.html

Lots of added safety protection on the units but you pay for it. No worry about glass breaking or being stuck in the on position.

2 x 150w Jager heaters on my 67gallon controlled by the Apex.

There are also limited by the built in thermostats set at 80° just in case the apex goes wonky or I forget to put the temperature probe back in the water after cleaning it.
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Neo-Therm by Cobalt Aquatics. I have a 50w for my QT, and 2 75w for my display and for heating up water for water changes. Work great,a and I love how they aren't glass/are so slim!

Fluval

Jager heaters. I find they are very, very accurate.

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I run all Jagers right now
I use 9 between my DT, QT, NSW, ATO (I know, not needed) and a spare for acclimating

If I ever redo my sump, I'll look into titaniums for the DT

ive used almost all of these and all have crapped out excluding my titaniums. i have had them for a year or so and temp has never changed even when changing from different sized tanks.

I've got 6 Jager's between my QT, DT and SW mixing barrel and they've all stuck on now. I think the oldest one is about a year and a half old. Now they are all just mixing barrel heaters, lol. I have 3 Aqua heat ones in my DT tank now and they seem to be working ok, but they're not very old either. I guess time will tell.
There's been great participation in this poll, Thanks everyone!

I love the Aqueon Pro and I'll be replacing my Jagers with them over the summer.

The Finnex are nice but I don't know of any Canadian distributors.

I'll add this;
No submersible aquarium heater I've ever seen is 'totally' waterproof, besides titanium, and even some of them are not

I keep my heaters verticle and the seals out of the water ...
Only the glass is in the water and the control heads are dry

I have a couple of old Jager heaters that have moisture inside, so nothing is totally 'waterproof'

Reef supplies sells Finnex