I agree,ick is evil
You might have broke your heater,but I did one better,I broke my hydrometer

.I'm not going to try the hyposalinaty(I want to treat with as little stress as possible)The fish are eating so much garlic,they're starting to smell real good

.I think I figured out what caused the problem,I had unplugged everything during a tank cleaning a week or 2 ago and foregot to plug one of the plugs back in(yup the heater

)by the time I noticed,the tank dropped in temp.
Jim