My Tank is boiling.

[gklaw]

get a new stealth heater, they will never have holes.

Oh ya? My system keep tripping the GFI. Finally found fault in a cracked housing of the a Stealth. As least for glass, I cna see the crack - just my personally preference now.

I do like the "stealth" look though.

[EDGE]

I haven't been all too happy with stealth. I got one of the faulty batch number (exploding heater batch) which was 4.5f cooler then preset. I mailed the company and they sent me a replacement. Replacement did not fair too much better.. off by 3f but at least I am more at ease without the tendency to explode batch.

when I had ebo, they seems to heat the water higher than the preset temp. I like them better with the thicker glass. They do not break as easy even if a small part of the element is exposed to air for a brief second.

[Edarion]

Interesting. They issued a recall on stealth heaters

Stealth Heaters

[arash53]

[Vman]

DO NOT GET A STEALTH HEATER. Unless you like big temp drops and rises. I recently returned one due to that reason.Get an Eheim Ebo Jäger.Its about $30 for 200 watts. Well made heater.

[Aquaman]

as far as i know ich doesnt just appear out of nowhere, it needs to be introduced

actually Inc is present in most tanks , healthy or not.stays in a dormant stage till conditions are right. Rapid temp drop and then a rise will give you ich more often than not.....not sure if high temp to lower temp change would do the same as Inc dies off at higher temps.
here's a vid I just found on it ....
Video: Removing Ick in Fish Tanks | eHow.com

[Edarion]

That's interesting actually. I've always thought that one can avoid ich entirley by putting aquarium salt in the tank and keeping the temperatures right