MARINELAND HEATERS

[Fern]

I had posted in the "TANK, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLY" section a thread "Heater malfunction" on 10/05/07 my first loss of Discus. It just happened to me again and lost 3 new discus due to heater jamming. Believe it or not, it happen to me twice with 2 different Marineland heaters. I do not recommend these heater, they are cheap and unreliable.

Fernando

[guille2007]

I had posted in the "TANK, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLY" section a thread "Heater malfunction" on 10/05/07 my first loss of Discus. It just happened to me again and lost 3 new discus due to heater jamming. Believe it or not, it happen to me twice with 2 different Marineland heaters. I do not recommend these heater, they are cheap and unreliable.

Fernando

It happens with any brand, I have a 50W visitherm de luxe that does not stop so Im using it to warm stored water for WC, it had killed my fish if I had not detect that bug. The 200 W one seems to be safer.

[fishmama]

That's terrible..sorry to hear that Fernando.

[Fern]

I am having some serious heater issues. I recently purchase this WonBrother heater 250W and guess what just happened. The end of the quartz pop off. It appears that there was an electric shortage inside and so it produced pressure gases creating enough pressure that it snapped end of the quartz. I am happy tho, did not loose any fish. Did not want to start a new thread under Wonbrother beacuse i just realized how unrealiable heater can be.

[alxjss]

yes, i hate heaters. I can't find any that work good either. i have the hydor in line heater for my main tank. That works great so far, but the others, i check them often just in case....so much about quality huh?

[jczz1232]

Try the ehiem heaters Fern. They might work better.

John

[Kindredspirit]

And make sure what you get can bump up to 92 degrees and is shatterproof

[wolvy]

Just to add myself never had a problem with the visi-therm stealth heaters in all 8 of my tanks.I really like the safety shut off if it does get dry,just my 2 cents well 1.8 US lol

[discus bob]

It happens with any brand, I have a 50W visitherm de luxe that does not stop so Im using it to warm stored water for WC, it had killed my fish if I had not detect that bug. The 200 W one seems to be safer.

I had the exact same heater, Visi-therm 50watt set to 75 degrees. It froze on and sent my 15 gallon Cherry shrimp tank into overdrive. I noticed it at 85 degrees and shut it down. No heater at all now in the tank, stays at 72 - 74. I wouldn't buy this one again any way, the cone shape of the control knob is impossible to grab underwater.

[alpine]

I am just ordering ten new visi-therm stealth heaters from fosters ..I am replacing my High Tech digital controler - titanium heaters.Have had a very bad experience with them .
I will be using two lower power heaters per tank from now on.

roberto.

[Fern]

The day I found the end piece broken I decided to contact WONBROTHERS. I forwarded an email with the same thread pictures. Today I followed by calling their customer service since I have not received any reply. I spoke to a lady and she told me she did not receive my initial email. I forwarded a second to her then called a few hours later to confirm receipt. I was happy to hear that they would be sending me a new heater along with instructions as to how to use it. I also received an Email with the details.

Now, I am glad that the replacement heater is not costing me a penny. But, they are under the impression that I broke the heater by not shutting it off while doing w/c. What I do not like is the fact that they think I broke it and the answer is no. I did not do any w/c that day or the day before. The girlfriend was in the kitchen and heard a poping sound minutes before i notice the broken heater, so bitter sweet.

[Green Country Discus]

I do not like any from the past and do not trust any I now own. I have tried most and use quite a few different ones now and hate the fact that one can not buy a quality heater! (...period!). Controllers do eliminate some of the problems.

[alpine]

Andrew, what are those problems in your opinion controlers eliminate ?

roberto.

[fredox]

Touch wood I've never had a problem with the standard Visitherms. I've only ever bought the 300W heaters as I've always planned on getting bigger tanks and never had. I'm fairly sure I've still got my original one from 7 or 8 years ago and as far as heaters go it's had a fairly had life with at least 3 years of traveling to uni and back where it was left in the drained tank and put on the back seat of the car for the journey.

[namasgt]

why dont you buy a jager i have one thats made in 1990 and it still works awsome, sthealts are good heaters too.