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Old 12-15-2008, 09:53 PM
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You're both wrong, you shouldn't use heaters in saltwater that can't be fully submersed. You're also better off using the titanium heaters since they don't smash and the seals are better.

Cut your losses and the arguments, buy new titanium heaters and split the cost.
I'm not sure what we're right or wrong about ?? I was agreeing they aren't designed to be submerged, yet people do.

Whats the difference using heaters in salt vs fresh ? Salt creep penetrating ?
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Old 12-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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leaky and broken heaters, another reason for a GFI
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:26 PM
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EBO Jagers are submersable heaters, the funny thing is in canada they will say not to submerse them under water but in the US they are a submersable heater, I have used them for many years in both fresh and salt water tanks submersed, along with a few other brands. Having said that I will not use Ebo Jagers anymore, when they fail they have over an 80% change of failing on, along with most other heaters you can buy. and I cooked a frag tank that way.

I do like the titanium ones, which is funny as they even say not submersable on the package hehe, but I hat ones that were sold in the US so they worked

thee is also a new one which is ceramic and so far I like that one also.

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Another opinion.
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I've gone through a couple of titanium heaters (with external controller) and both heaters failed on me so I gave up on them.

Currently using Stealth submerged heaters with no problems so far.
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Old 12-16-2008, 05:37 AM
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That is what my husband came home with today. It has an outside heat control and I feel much better about it now.

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You're both wrong, you shouldn't use heaters in saltwater that can't be fully submersed. You're also better off using the titanium heaters since they don't smash and the seals are better.

Cut your losses and the arguments, buy new titanium heaters and split the cost.
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