Pailines Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 So recently due to the decline in atm temperature, i decided it was a good time to add a heating unit to my 20Long. Long story short, i bough a Eheim Jagger 3614 100watt Heater. Now here comes my question. Will a Model: 3614 Eheim Jagger 100Watt, rated at (26-40) gallon tank, be appropriate for a 20long tank? I know it says it's rate for 26-40, but i was told that it can be used for any tank "UP TO" 40gallon. Just want to get a second opinion. Thanks ARC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaJohn Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 (edited) Sounds good to me. It always seems better to add a slightly bigger heater than needed or it may not be able to keep up depending on how cold the area is. I have my sump in the garage and and had to run 2 300 watt and another 100 watt just to keep my 150ish gal of water at 77 when it got really cold last year. I then found if I placed towels around and over the top of the sump on racks so they could not fall in it really cut down on how many watts I had to run. I would also add that the glass marine land heaters suck as far as as I am concerned they seem to always come on even when the tank is over what they are set on. If I had kept them I would have added an external controll to turn them off and on. but I went to an 800 watt titanium with external controll. Edited October 30, 2011 by AquaJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pailines Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 oh ok, Thanks AquaJohn I was just hesitant to plug it in since i had a close call before, almost fried my tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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