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11-20-2011, 12:58 AM
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Tank Crash thanks to a aqua heat titanium heater
So got a call from my wife, dead fish(sand sifting golby) in tank I get home and a bad smell was coming from the tank.
SPS and LPS are dying everything is melting other fish are missing and the snails have flipped onto their backs its a bad thing to see, but the aiptasia seem to be dying also so that is good I guess. I look at the temperature and its cold, oh that must be it I think to myself so I check the heaters both are aqua heat titanium heaters I look at the controllers both are on and showing that they are heating. I pull one out and here is what I see Heating tube no longer attached to the wire and still looking like its pumping out the juice and no GFI trip. I have started to do some water changes and bought a new heater as the water was really cold. Had this heater for less then a year I checked the other on and it seems fine at this point.
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11-20-2011, 01:21 AM
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that's bad news-all my tanks are heated by the aqua heat.don't be surprised if you get an aptasia outbreak.i had a crash and the aptasia grew everywhere in abundance.took 5 months for berghia to clean the tank
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11-20-2011, 02:16 AM
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Sooo it fell apart. On it's own? I find it hard to believe that without being pulled that it would ever happen.
Bad bad luck either way. Sorry.
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11-20-2011, 02:48 AM
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I heard a bang last night while I was in bed did not think anything of it at the time. I don't think it pulled apart I think it exploded
There was no pressure on the wire so I know it did not "pull" out it was just hanging in the sump I am running about 150Gal total with the sump with 2 300watt heaters
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11-20-2011, 02:51 AM
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oh man
 .....thats crappy news.....hopefully you dont loose too much more...
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11-20-2011, 04:00 AM
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Terrible news,sorry to hear and like fishytime says hopefully you don't loose too much more
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11-20-2011, 03:19 PM
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I am surprised they are still around
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11-20-2011, 03:38 PM
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Im not sure why we all figure we need titanium heaters???....especially when most of them are proving to be crappy.....most of us have sumps and the likelihood of a heater getting smacked around and breaking is low.....to me nothing beats and old fashioned ehiem/ebo-jeager glass heater.....in 20+ years of fish keeping Ive never had one fail.....( I do have a titanium heater too....a jali run by my ACjr....three years and so far so good)
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11-20-2011, 03:38 PM
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Running an aqua controller I checked the log and it looks like maybe an amp jump at a point but nothing else really stands out?
This morning corals are bleached, hammer is looking near the end only missing one fish now figure he is buried in the sand, toad stool is limp Trying to get the tank temp up two 300watt heaters going right now
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