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

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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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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

Ew, that's awful. You even have a back up heater? How big is your tank and how many watts are the heaters? Maybe you should buy slightly bigger heaters.

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.

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

oh man:sad:.....thats crappy news.....hopefully you dont loose too much more...

Terrible news,sorry to hear and like fishytime says hopefully you don't loose too much more

It is always terrible to hear something like this. Hope that i don't sound like an ass but honestly, everyone should really save up money and get a controller that can warn you something is wrong. I really think it is a good investment comparing how much money we put into our live stock, not only the emotion attach to some fish (maybe only me on this one). Of course controller can fail to but you still get a better chance than nothing :-)

Hope your tank will recover soon.

That sucks :sad: I am using that kind of heater right now, got it to replace the stealth heater because people had them fail/explode. Now I'm wondering if I should get a different heater.

Happened to me 3 years ago twice
I am surprised they are still around