911 Help!!

[cchomistek]

I have that same heater, did you ever find out what made it stay on?? Was it pretty old and corroded??

Thanks
Craig

[Reef_surfer]

no nothing looks wrong i think something towards the plugin end when i played around with it the indecator light would turn off and on

[Funky_Fish14]

Ahh I see way too many of those Won Brothers heaters fail. They seem terrible.

Sorry to hear about your potters! Good luck with the rest! Anything that is dead/does die you should remove immediately. I'd probably do another smaller (15-25%) water change tomorrow.

All the best,

Chris

[OceanicCorals-Ian-]

I would highly suggest that everyone run something like a temp controller or something like it. So many disasters would be avoided if these were used by everyone. I would never depend on any heater to properly regulate the temp.

Here is a link to what I am talking about.

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...Category_Code=

[Chipie]

I have a Won heater but it's on a Ranco dual stage controller. I won't trust any heater. They all can fail. I had 2 Theo a visi-therm heater stick on. Hope your livestock recover.

[Parker]

If you choose to run without a controller another good tip is to run two smaller heaters that singley can't overheat your tank. Both would have to fail at the same time in order for a tank overheat.

[sphelps]

You're on a long road to recovery at this point, when you cook a tank it has long term effects. A lot of the sponges and other live matter within the rock is likely dead again so you essentially have to re-cure all the rock. If your tank isn't well established you're better off starting from scratch.

I've been through this exact same scenario with other people before, it's not pretty.

[Reef_surfer]

ah i dont like the news people are giving me i have been doing testing. most of the corals look ok now its just the frogspawn. im going to be doing tests right away. i did do a water change and took all the casualties out.

[Reef_surfer]

just finished a test
ammonia-0
Nitrate- between 0-5
phosphate -.25

everything seems to be stable

[Madreefer]

I have an icecream bucket that I fill with water from my tank and freeze it. I just drop the big ice cube back in to my sump. Have had no ill effects and helps alot to bring the heat down. See no harm in using actual tank water. Only done this during hot summer days.