Did you know that when you are doing a water change and drain the water down so that the glass heater is high and dry, it will kick on and heat up really hot so that when you add the new water in it will explode into a million pieces and cause you great panic because you:
1. realize that the GFCI outlet that you meant to install would have been a good thing since all that sizzling and popping and smoking that a broken heater under water makes can't be good or safe as you desperatly try to decipher the tangle of cords and determine which one is for the heater so you can yank it out of the power bar.
2. need to redo the whole water change and you don't have enough premixed water ready and must decide whether to let the poor fish stew in the now questionable water or risk doing the water change again with raw mixed water.
3. now do not have a heater in the tank and don't own a spare one and its not good timing because the stores are closed at this time of day and you can't get to a store to buy a new one until late the next day.
I did not know this either until I did it to my QT tank. (actually I probably did know but just didn't realize it).
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke.
Ed
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50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump.
130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium.
10 gallon quarantine.
60 gallon winter tank for pond fish.
300 gallon pond with waterfall.
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