Recommend me a heater or two for my 29g.

[Burke]

I had a Stealth just take a dump on me.
I am able to control one heater using my controller, but I would like a back-up just in case.

The heater did fail in the off position and luckily the water had only dropped a couple degrees.

Burke

Thanks

[jolson10450]

I had a Stealth just take a dump on me.
I am able to control one heater using my controller, but I would like a back-up just in case.

The heater did fail in the off position and luckily the water had only dropped a couple degrees.

Burke

Thanks

i use stealth's they work good it is just better if you have a controller, the heat can never go over the desired temp unless the water is heated by your lights because it cuts the power to your heater if it goes over. also if it goes to low you can set an alarm to go off on most controllers so if it does fail in the off position it will sound an alarm letting you know that something is wrong. yeah controllers seem expensive but in the long run i don't know how i would manage without mine now. so much more fail safe and worry free.

[Burke]

I have a controller that I made. I read in temp and control it that way.

I'm not sure what size heater I should use. I just had something that was left over in there before.

Thanks
Burke

[jolson10450]

I have a controller that I made. I read in temp and control it that way.

I'm not sure what size heater I should use. I just had something that was left over in there before.

Thanks
Burke

oh ok if it is just size i use a 100w on my 29g tank with 10g sump and it works fine for me. i used to use a 200w but that was way excessive so i downgraded, if you wanted to do a fail safe get 2x 100w heaters, set one at your normal temp example 78, set the other lower at 76 so only one runs and then if the one does fail the other will turn on at 76ish.

or you can run both at the same time but thats up to you.