Fitting A Rena Smartheater.

[fishstick]

I see PFK is offering a Rena SmartHeater as freebie with a new subscription. I bought one as they sound a good idea in that water is drawn out of the tank to an external filter and heated at the same time. However I could not make the Rena connect to my Fluval 305 without a (not included) connection piece. With it, fixing was easy and it works perfectly.

 

[DarkEntity]

I see PFK is offering a Rena SmartHeater as freebie with a new subscription. I bought one as they sound a good idea in that water is drawn out of the tank to an external filter and heated at the same time. However I could not make the Rena connect to my Fluval 305 without a (not included) connection piece. With it, fixing was easy and it works perfectly.

I thought you put the heater on the outlet not the inlet. The way you have described it above is you have the water pulled out of the tank through the heater and filtered....or am i reading it wrong?

 

[fishstick]

I see PFK is offering a Rena SmartHeater as freebie with a new subscription. I bought one as they sound a good idea in that water is drawn out of the tank to an external filter and heated at the same time. However I could not make the Rena connect to my Fluval 305 without a (not included) connection piece. With it, fixing was easy and it works perfectly.

I thought you put the heater on the outlet not the inlet. The way you have described it above is you have the water pulled out of the tank through the heater and filtered....or am i reading it wrong?

I think so - there is a grid thing on the lowest part of the heater to stop fish being sucked up the heater. Anyway you want the water re-entering the tank to ripple the surface to help get rid of CO2.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Ahhh so thats how that one works (was curious about it myself). The pipes on the fluval externals are rubbish and ugly which is the main reason I dont use fluvals anymore. You cant fit anything "inline" on them unless you either modifiy the inlet/out to take 22mm pipes and then use a 16mm reducer in there somewhere.

I got a ehiem with the built in heater and it does work really well but the inline heaters do the same trick and cost a lot less (especially if you already have a filter). With the ehiem the water is pulled to the bottom of the filter (where the heating coil is) and then up through the filter media to the outlet so is working in exactly the same way (heated before being filtered).

 

[woodej]

I see PFK is offering a Rena SmartHeater as freebie with a new subscription. I bought one as they sound a good idea in that water is drawn out of the tank to an external filter and heated at the same time. However I could not make the Rena connect to my Fluval 305 without a (not included) connection piece. With it, fixing was easy and it works perfectly.

The connecting piece you used, was it the rena connecting kit ? or a diffent piece ? As the connecting kit states it only works for a pipe upto 16 mm, and I'm sure the 305 tubing is more.
I have the smart heater and a 305 but unfortunately due to the tank's naff design (Juwel Vision 180) the gaps for the inlet outlet pipes are to small to fit the tubing AND the connecting clamp so I just have them feeding into the tank without the clamp in place. So I need to make sure that the connection between the heater and the piping is very strong so the pipe doesnt flip out

 

[fishstick]

I see PFK is offering a Rena SmartHeater as freebie with a new subscription. I bought one as they sound a good idea in that water is drawn out of the tank to an external filter and heated at the same time. However I could not make the Rena connect to my Fluval 305 without a (not included) connection piece. With it, fixing was easy and it works perfectly.

The connecting piece you used, was it the rena connecting kit ? or a diffent piece ? As the connecting kit states it only works for a pipe upto 16 mm, and I'm sure the 305 tubing is more.
I have the smart heater and a 305 but unfortunately due to the tank's naff design (Juwel Vision 180) the gaps for the inlet outlet pipes are to small to fit the tubing AND the connecting clamp so I just have them feeding into the tank without the clamp in place. So I need to make sure that the connection between the heater and the piping is very strong so the pipe doesnt flip out

I did use the Rena connecting kit and it works very well, I really don't get the feeling that the Fluval tubes and the Rena bits are going to part company, the push fit is positive.