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juancho24
01/22/2009, 08:24 AM
What heater do you guys use most? I will not be using it much probably 1 month in total as I live in South Fl. I have a chiller and wanted to add a heater to the sump for the cold days.

I have a 60g any recommendations will be appreciated.

kretzkiller
01/22/2009, 08:34 AM
If you are running a 60 gallon tank (what's your total water volume?) I would go with a 200 watt. In Miami what's the coldest temp? a 200 watt can raise the temp in your tank about 10* above room temp. If you are hardly going to use it just buy something relatively cheap. FWIW I use the cheapest one I could find off of MD :)

lizardarm
01/22/2009, 08:34 AM
Ebo Jager, now Eheim Jager have been a popular choice for a decades; reliable, thick-walled heaters. The Visi-therm stealth heaters are not bad at all either (based on recent experience with them).

juancho24
01/22/2009, 08:47 AM
kretzkiller - The exact water volume would probably be hard to get exact with sump, corals, sand and live rock but I estimate it to be around 65. It normally does not get too cold down here but last night I left the heater running in the house as it dropped to mid 30's!

seagirl
01/22/2009, 11:31 AM
jager

bradbmbj
01/22/2009, 07:30 PM
Eheim Jager also

ssamick
01/22/2009, 08:06 PM
I have two stealth's. They seem fairly accurate. I use mine with a finnex controller.