COOKED!!
 

Woke up this am and stepping out of the bedroom, I was hit with an unfortunately familiar smell.

:faint:

I already knew what happened, I just didn't know which tank or how.

Went to check them all and could immediately see my spare RSM130 looking cloudy.

Turns out, the stock Red Sea heater (I had just bought a few months ago from Aquariums West and never used) that I had just installed on Monday had gone into overdrive and had cooked the tank overnight.

There were only a few mushrooms in there along with some LR so no biggie...hate to see anything die in my captivity but still a best case scenario for the situation.

Now I'm going to get a controller.

ACJR or RKL.

Will have to see....everything I currently have is Apex but it's all pretty old stuff....green screens galore.

Lots of peace of mind regardless of brand.

I use a Finnex controller for my heater, I don't like to depend on the on board control that comes with heaters, $ 50ish and I bought it on Amazon.ca.
Works perfect and very accurate. :smile:

Yeah.

In retrospect, as soon as I put those mushrooms in the tank, I should have hooked up some kind of heat controller.

for 50 bucks, should have got one like yours.

I'm planning on selling this extra rsm soonish and I'm sure it'll be much more marketable with an RKL or ACJR.

I heard that someone's apex got hacked and the whole tank was cooked so there's that. And if you run apex offline, that 50% of the apex's value down the drain.

I went with a Ranco; industrial grade temp controller. Its ugly (hence industrial) but its hidden inside the closet.

Are you OK?

I use 2 or 3 smaller units...so if one sticks on full heat it doesn't anything.

do the same thing with protein skimmers so if one fails and I dont know about it.....

Most people have experienced a heater failure at least once , they are less than perfect pieces of equipment . Ive had them both stick on and off . At least you didn't loose any fish or a bunch of coral , but if you had turbo snails in there the smell wont go away for a while that's an unholy kinda funk.

nothing in there but brown hairy mushrooms and a few nicer blue ones....no cuc.

It smelled, trust me.

I've had heaters fail before, I shouldn't have put my faith in the red sea one and bought a more reliable brand instead.

I actually had the opposite problem recently, I was away on holiday and got a bunch of emails from my apex that my tank temp was dropping out of parameters. I called my dad over to unplug my tank heater and plug in the spare. I waited...but the tank temp kept dropping! WTF??? Turns out that I turned down the house thermostat when we left and my 300 watt heater wasn't up to the job. Lucky that I figured it out and called my dad back to plug in both heaters which did the trick. No damage.