Had a couple glass ones break. I use Finnex now connect to Apex
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is it really important to keep a constant temp? mine never goes below 75 but will always get to 79 How much is to much flux's
Finnex 500w titanium controlled by a reef keeper. This is flawless
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I thought the same thing until I just had one stick on me and cook a tank that I have set up for a friend. She ended up losing over half of her corals, but luckily I just had to reach into my frag tank and had it looking good in no time. If she had to go out and buy the corals it cooked it would have been over $600 worth! I use a controller and titanium heaters on my setup, and have never had a failure. I don't ever see me using a heater again without at least a Ranco control. 180G Mixed Reef, 90G In Wall Reef, 60G Cube Seahorse Tank, Oceans Motions, 55G Refugium, 40G Frag Tank, 125G Basement Sump with ETSS Skimmer, Dosing Pumps, GFO ReactorEheim Jagers, a little work is needed in getting them calibrated, but once done they are spot on and long lasting
I thought the same thing until I just had one stick on me and cook a tank that I have set up for a friend. She ended up losing over half of her corals, but luckily I just had to reach into my frag tank and had it looking good in no time. If she had to go out and buy the corals it cooked it would have been over $600 worth! I use a controller and titanium heaters on my setup, and have never had a failure. I don't ever see me using a heater again without at least a Ranco control. 180G Mixed Reef, 90G In Wall Reef, 60G Cube Seahorse Tank, Oceans Motions, 55G Refugium, 40G Frag Tank, 125G Basement Sump with ETSS Skimmer, Dosing Pumps, GFO Reactor
I couldn't agree with you more! The Via Aqua titanium is a fantastic heater with a great price and has been nothing but reliable. I have had mine for well over a year, now.Approaching 2 years and this this is rock solid. By far one of the best heaters out there if not downright THE best heater out there.Via Aqua Titanium, I have had nothing but problems with glass heaters, Eheim and VisiTherm included. The Titaniums come with a seperate controller and temp sensor and are extremely accurate.
Controllers are important since heaters most likely will stick on at some point. A reefkeeper or other is not in my budget so I use heaters that come with a controller or add one for about $30. These small controllers function by setting the heater to the highest setting (or just over what you want to be safe) so it is on all the time. The controller has a probe to measure the tank temperature and turns off the electricity to the heater when the temp is reached. It is cheaper to buy a good heater with controller than to add the extra cost of a controller to one but I had some old heaters that were stuck on all the time so I bought one. Read the fine print since these controllers are rated for a certain wattage, some at 300 watts so could not be used for a heater over that. Mine is rated at 1000 watts.
Thats my problem I have a glass, digital,a stick on thermometer and are a little off. but which ones?N
The question i have is.....when you have four thermometers and none of them read the same, how do you know which is right?