weird ass titaniam pro 2 heater issue

[reefNewbie]

So i get home today and see my tank temperature on the heater readout say 85.4 degrees. I was like holy crap! 8O I shut off the lights and put fans on the tank. Still the temp wouldnt fall. I felt the water, felt normal to me. STarted thinking maybe the heaters off because ive heard of them sticking on and messing up peopl;es tanks. So i ran out and bought a glass hydrometer. (Ive gone through like 3 of them now in the last 6 months, keep breaking) Put it in and it measures a hare under 80. I unplug the heater, plug it back in.....now it reads 82.8. WTF is going on here? should i talk to the manufacturer?

 

[Anonymous]

Is it one with a separate sensor or with the sensor on the end of the heating element? I have the latter, and they are very innaccurate. Get a nice digital read-out thermometer and rely on that.

There was a big thread on the reliability of the Pro version of these heaters; after reading that I put mine on a controller.

 

[reefsnreptiles1]

I would strongly suggest purchasing a separate digital thermometer as those heater readouts are notoriously inaccurate.

Best of luck.

 

[reefNewbie]

ok, but what should i do with this one.....if it thinks the temp is that high, the heater wont kick on when it needs to

 

[mountainbiker619]

About two weeks ago my pro model went bonkers on me..guess the on switch got stuck..before I realized it, the water temp was over 100F. It killed just about everything in my tank..made my flasher wrasses jump out and die. I always thought it was a great idea...but an idea I do not trust at the moment.