What heater are submersible?

[brendan]

I recently bought a Tronic heater and I was wondering if it was fully submersible, I mean I've seen in LFS's that they place the heater horizontally near the bottom of the tank. I also read that doing this is better for heating the tank.

35g
150W heater

 

[loganj]

AFAIK, all the Tronic heaters are submersible. It should say on the package or on the heater itself. If it doesn't say that it's submersible, I would have to operate on the assumption that it is not.

 

[Bearfan]

Agreed, and if you place it at a slight angel as opposed to horizontal you get better distribution.

 

[Allivymar]

I think my angels would get pretty cranky if you stuck a heater on top of em.

*ducks n runs*

 

[jsoong]

Ha Ha ! & this from the spelling police!


edit: only kidding.

 

[brendan]

I didn't read anything on the pakage about the heater being fully submersible but on the heater itself there's a max water line indicating mark. Should I take that to mean that I can't put the heater all the way under water?

 

[jsoong]

A max water line usually means you can't put the whole thing under water. However, I read somewhere that some submersible Ebo's also have a max water line, so I am not 100% sure.

 

[Toirtis]

In a discussion with Mark Hagen, he assured me that both Tronics and Hagen 'Thermals' are fully submersible....the water-mark is due to some strange requirement by the Canadian insurance underwriters.

 

[Aquarius]

On my Hagen brand heater, the water mark was there for a reason. It short-circuted and torched my tank... :? I had to start over.

 

[madasafish]

Hehe. Well, I was gonna say I was confused by this too (bigals says Tronics are fully submersible, other places say no), but Toirtis seems to have us covered.

 

[Enki]

My Ebo-Jager has a "Min water line". I have a 200watt in my 50 gallon and my temp is rock solid.