Used Chiller

[newtoreef]

Hi all,

any suggestion? New or used chiller will be advisable for new hobby?

Thank you.

[braincoral]

Better buy new one

I got bad experience buying 2nd hand

[Kakani]

New will be good but if budget 2nd hand it does the work.

[Jameshong]

For 2nd chiller, I normally go for reliable one like arctica.

[Hondace]

Go for arctica if u can. It may cost 2-3x more than other brands but it's worth it for my experience as I had 2 resun before switching to arctica.

Some will say u can buy a few other brands chiller with the cost of 1 arctica but trust me, u don't want the chiller to die on u & yr corals to die or bleach.

If budgeted, go for 2nd hand but only arctica. Other brands, better to get new ones.

[JeffL]

go for artica and if you can wait, look out for used one in pasar malam, easily 50% off new pricing

have used Hailea before, in terms of noise never Arctica is darn quiet. LOL

[MadScientist]

Hi all,

any suggestion? New or used chiller will be advisable for new hobby?

Thank you.

Depends. Expensive lifestock, new. Don't care about lifestock, used. Used chillers tend to have a lot more problems and most sellers rarely detail to you all the problems, some do not even let you test. Luckily for me, my chiller was sold by a very nice reefer whom detailed me with all the problems and enforced testing. Not so lucky for one of my skimmer and return pump though.

A good point to remember, repair costs with the used chiller cost may be near or exceed new chiller cost, especially when you include livestock loss

[n2711]

in sg ...chiller its must

[hydrox78]

go for the new ones, more over these days, chillers are getting more affordable (china brand)

[建沅]

2nd hand, best to view it running in the seller's setup before taking over to prevent any disputes.

[Nic1988]

my vote would be for teco =) i have a second hand one which works like a charm!