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02-05-2012, 04:53 AM
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That sucks christy hopefully things.are sorted out now. I was on rc the
other day a saw a bunch of peeps had heater issues too, maybe there's a bad batch out there hmmm. I'm concerned as well, i picked up an aqueon 150 for my 33, today the temp dropped from 77 to 74??? so in order to get the temp back i had to turn up the heater to 86 and it has remainned there because if i dial it back then the light goes from green to red, now im freaked that im gonna wake to see bubbles an steam!!!
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02-05-2012, 06:33 AM
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Don't ever buy TOP FIN
I had two TOP FIN heaters. 200w each for my 55G tank. One of them was faulty. It over heated my tank. I lost 6 fishes and 4 expensive Australian SPS. Piece of ****!
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02-05-2012, 03:33 PM
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I would think that is a small heater for that much water.
I have a 300W on 100G of water.
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02-05-2012, 04:47 PM
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big heaters are more prone to fail, I run four 100watt heaters in my 90g with a temp controller, if one fails I probably wouldn't know except my controller tells me the amps so I would know, if more than 1 fails then the temp might start to drop a bit but you would have time to troubleshoot, the odds of all 4 failing at the same time are pretty high.
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02-05-2012, 07:03 PM
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Tank held steady at 78.8F last night which is better than its done for over a month (usually drops to 76-77).
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02-05-2012, 08:48 PM
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Well that's good- holding is better than what i have.
My heater reads 80 now-86 yesterday  to give me a temp of 76 in tankSo i picked up a second glass thermo this am, after 5min in the tank one says 76 an the other 82-what the hell! now what 
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02-05-2012, 08:49 PM
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ps sorry Christy didn't mean to mow your lawn
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02-05-2012, 09:23 PM
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LOL, no worries. I never believe what the heater says, I always have another thermometer and go by that. Once you hit your target temp, turn the heater down till the light goes off and keep an eye on it.
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