COOKED!!

[gobytron]

Woke up this am and stepping out of the bedroom, I was hit with an unfortunately familiar smell.



I already knew what happened, I just didn't know which tank or how.

Went to check them all and could immediately see my spare RSM130 looking cloudy.

Turns out, the stock Red Sea heater (I had just bought a few months ago from Aquariums West and never used) that I had just installed on Monday had gone into overdrive and had cooked the tank overnight.

There were only a few mushrooms in there along with some LR so no biggie...hate to see anything die in my captivity but still a best case scenario for the situation.

Now I'm going to get a controller.

ACJR or RKL.

Will have to see....everything I currently have is Apex but it's all pretty old stuff....green screens galore.

Lots of peace of mind regardless of brand.

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by gobytron

Woke up this am and stepping out of the bedroom, I was hit with an unfortunately familiar smell.



I already knew what happened, I just didn't know which tank or how.

Went to check them all and could immediately see my spare RSM130 looking cloudy.

Turns out, the stock Red Sea heater (I had just bought a few months ago from Aquariums West and never used) that I had just installed on Monday had gone into overdrive and had cooked the tank overnight.

There were only a few mushrooms in there along with some LR so no biggie...hate to see anything die in my captivity but still a best case scenario for the situation.

Now I'm going to get a controller.

ACJR or RKL.

Will have to see....everything I currently have is Apex but it's all pretty old stuff....green screens galore.

Lots of peace of mind regardless of brand.

I use a Finnex controller for my heater, I don't like to depend on the on board control that comes with heaters, $ 50ish and I bought it on Amazon.ca.
Works perfect and very accurate.

[gobytron]

Yeah.

In retrospect, as soon as I put those mushrooms in the tank, I should have hooked up some kind of heat controller.

for 50 bucks, should have got one like yours.

I'm planning on selling this extra rsm soonish and I'm sure it'll be much more marketable with an RKL or ACJR.

[mrhasan]

I heard that someone's apex got hacked and the whole tank was cooked so there's that. And if you run apex offline, that 50% of the apex's value down the drain.

I went with a Ranco; industrial grade temp controller. Its ugly (hence industrial) but its hidden inside the closet.

[shrimp]

Are you OK?

[BC564]

I use 2 or 3 smaller units...so if one sticks on full heat it doesn't anything.

[BC564]

do the same thing with protein skimmers so if one fails and I dont know about it.....