Chihiros Heater Pro - any thoughts on this product?

[Calamardo Tentaculos]

I am getting tired of having an in-tank heater, and am thinking of switching to an inline heater, the Chihiros Heater Pro in particular. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be much by way of comments or shared experiences that I can see online.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

I own two, but haven't had extensive enough time to give a review. They seem well-made and accurate in terms of temp readout. Would love to hear from someone who has more experience witht his newer product!

 

[Koan]

Use an Inkbird

 

[Calamardo Tentaculos]

Use an Inkbird

I don't think it will help with my goal of avoiding an in-tank heater.

 

[Calamardo Tentaculos]

repeat message

 

[Calamardo Tentaculos]

I own two, but haven't had extensive enough time to give a review. They seem well-made and accurate in terms of temp readout. Would love to hear from someone who has more experience witht his newer product!

I hope someone else can chime in with their comments as well.

I originally thought of getting an Oase biomaster, but it is pricey and seems wasteful to get a new heater when I have a perfectly working Fluval 307. My thoughts are it will be more economical to just add an inline heater.

 

[Koan]

I don't think it will help with my goal of avoiding an in-tank heater

Let me rephrase that:

Recommend

Use an Inkbird

with that, then you can safely experiment with whatever in-line heater you like

 

[TimmyO2]

I hope someone else can chime in with their comments as well.

I originally thought of getting an Oase biomaster, but it is pricey and seems wasteful to get a new heater when I have a perfectly working Fluval 307. My thoughts are it will be more economical to just add an inline heater.

I hope someone else can chime in with their comments as well.

I originally thought of getting an Oase biomaster, but it is pricey and seems wasteful to get a new heater when I have a perfectly working Fluval 307. My thoughts are it will be more economical to just add an inline heater.

I definitely think an inline heater would be the best option for what you want. I have 2 of the Aquael Flow heater 2.0s and they work great. I’ve been running 1 of them for well over a year now.

I was looking into the Chihiros ones and it looked like they only fit up to 16/22mm tubing and my Aquael Ultramax 2000 uses 19/25mm. The Bluetooth control that lets you set the wattage is really cool on the Chihiros but Aquael recently released a BT version of the flow heater. I don’t think I can get them yet in the U.S. but you may be able to in the UK and they have a longer warranty than the Chihiros. I really don’t think you could go wrong with either though.

As for the Biomasters, they are really nice filters but i don’t think they’re worth going out and buying if you already have a good reliable filter. My Ultramax 2000 has a prefilter, pushes 50 more liters per hour and I got it + the heater for $100 less than the Biomaster 2 Thermo 850 is going for. Now if you’re starting a tank from scratch, then I think the biomaster thermos are definitely worth looking into.