It was on the side facing the back too, so I couldnt see it until I took it out. Smoking and hissing at me until I shut it off.
I guess check your heaters folks?
Posted by Hatandboots
It was on the side facing the back too, so I couldnt see it until I took it out. Smoking and hissing at me until I shut it off.
I guess check your heaters folks?
Posted by Hatandboots
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How long did you have it in there for? Wonder if this is a common thing, just curious since you still had the box was it newish?
I once lost a beautifully-plamted and stocked 29 long to a failed heater. The vegetation was luxurious, the assorted community fish were thriving. The tank was near the door to my apartment.
I came home from work and immediately sensed the excessive heat. All the poor fish but two were almost literally boiled, white and floating. An angelfish and a clown loach survived, barely.
I placed them in a 1-gallon quarantine tank with half fresh water and half old tank water, scooped the dead fish out, did three 25% water changes back-to-back, vacuuming the bottom as much as I could without disturbing the plants, put the new heater in and added the angel and loach the next day.
I had three years invested in that tank, felt so bad for my fish!
I am genuinely impressed by this. This is a terrible, but fascinating, heater failure.
Once again, very sorry for not thinking of this before on the old post and going after just water chemistry 🙁
I’ve seen pictures like this a lot. Thats why I have one of those flat plastic heaters sandwiched between the glass and one of those pink insulation foams. Works well, if it fails it doesnt happen inside the tank
Always run 2 heaters that’s rated for half your tank size done this for year after my first failed heater experience
Another day of me thanking Cthulhu I don’t need a heater
I think heaters have shorter lives than we realize, but buying one is so overwhelming.
This terrifies me. I haven’t moved mine in like 2 years. I better check when i get home lol.
I lost like half of my Congo biotope from a broken heater😕 my baby whales, my red cap moon tetras, my microsynodontis school, my microctenapomas, over like 400$ in fish and I searched high and low for these fish. It was terrible
My old Hydor in a shrimp tank did that just recently, thank God it didn’t shock me or any shrimp died from it.
This is why I get a heater controller – like an inkbird. It only turns on when it needs to. An investment of around $30-$40 can save you hundreds of dollars in fish tank maintenance and fish