Titanium vs Glass Heater

[eric-c]

What is the advantage or disadvantage of titanium heaters verses glass heaters?

 

[Cherokee_Dude]

Titanium won't shatter and slowly seep undesirable elements into your tank.

Oh, and the cord melting and sending a charge through corals and fish stressing them out I could've done without. Course that's not always the case, just IME with glass heaters.

 

[JayM]

or crack, pop your GFI and shut down all circulation to your whole system....I won't say how I know that

titanium is the way to go.....

 

[nichols]

I'd have to call that one a draw. I've had Titanium heaters short our where the cord enters the heater. No mater which you use you need to check them from time to time.

 

[Miller]

TI heaters are the BOMB. Titanium has to be a better conductor of heat then glass.

 

[afboundguy]

What about plastic heaters? Greg Hiller suggested titanium and plastic over glass and I thought he said plastic was better due to the possibility of titanium being a metal in a SW tank and could leach...

 

[this is me]

Plastic.

 

[dcforester1]

I just got a tianium from Dr fosters on sale, $31 for a 300w, it is dead on, with a seperate temp probe, on sale in new cat, part# CD-70417