Brad,
I, too, have read about horror stories regarding faulty heaters and, yes, I still use heaters but feel pretty sure I am safe because my tanks are grounded.
Anyway, can you tell me if a heater, or anything else electrical, in one of my tanks malfunctions, what kind of damage I would incur with a grounded tank? I know if the malfunction happened during the night, my tank would completely shut down. With lack of O2 and water movement, I would assume some/lots of stuff would die. But if it happened during a time I was home and the down time would be only a couple of hours, what would the initial electric shock, before the tank shut down, do to the inhabitants of my tank? In your opinion, that is.
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