Habitat - Indoor :: Require A New Heater - Best 1 Money Can Buy

[Jagz64]

Hi There

Can you lot please let me know which is the best heater to buy
on the market as my current one is dead as a door nail.

Regards, Jagz

I'm currently looking at a Hydor ETH 300 but is there anythink better. ??


I have a 350L - 70G Tank [U.K]

[emma]

A lot of people on this forum have Stealth Heaters. They are a pretty nice brand. I don't think they are the best money can buy though.

[Cramer]

If you have substrate, these are cool:
http://www.petsolutions.com/Hydorkable- ... C1021.aspx

[steve]

Tronic heaters are also supposed to be good, though I've never used them before. Ebo Jager is good too, but some die-hard fish keepers think the quality is no longer top-notch.

The thermostat on one of my Stealths (I have a total of 4) seems to have malfunctioned and won't turn off. I think they have a lifetime warranty... gotta go dig up that info...

[Jagz64]

Looks like i will be going with the Hydor ETH 300 External Heater and the Fluval FX5 guys.

[marisa]

The older Stealth's I think say "lifetime waranty" on the box. The newer ones I'm not sure make that claim anymore.

I've never used the in-line heater you mentioned, but I've read of keepers on other forums liking it.

My newest heater is a 200-watt Ebo-Jager, and it's doing a wonderful job keeping the water in a 100-gallon stock tank with about 80 gallons of water in it in a very cool basement at the very temp it's set for (72F). I had bought two, but after reading that one is good for up to 90 gallons, I may put in the other one only if the weather gets a lot colder. I've read about the supposed decline of the Ebo-Jager quality, but the product has been taken over by Eheim, so I wonder how much Eheim would let the quality suffer. I sometimes think getting a good heater is the luck of the draw to some extent. I have a 4-year-old Tronic that still works just fine as well.

[focus12221]

Just to let everyone know, my brand new stealth heater still says lifetime warranty, and thats about a week old, so yes they still advertise a lifetime.

[erinemcgreevy]

Whatever you get just make sure that it is NOT glass. I had a glass heater for 1 day and it broke in the tank! It was a huge pain to clean and I cut my finger in the process, luckily I got Murphy out of the tank unscathed.

[Ritz]

I had a question about heaters:

What if my RES goes on and decides to bite it or something? Are they dangerous at all? I was thinking of getting the Stealth: http://www.petco.com/product/13811/Mari ... aters.aspx

I don't want Turles to get hurt

[focus12221]

The stealth is totally plastic unbreakable he can bite it, but hes not going to hurt himself anymore than biting some other thing in the tank, you definately need a heater to keep the water set at the right temp either go with the stealth or they make a heater for reptiles with a guard but its not adjustable its just set to 78 I like to have it be adjustable