911 Help!!

[Reef_surfer]

Originally Posted by o.c.d.

How about throw the piece of sh$% out! What a nightmare, this is where you get back at the company who makes it by telling everyone the make and model so none of us buy it. I hope you can resurrect your tank, good luck

well if you guys would like to know the heater its a won pro heat titanium heater. heres the link http://www.marinedepot.com/heaters_w...tanium-ap.html

Originally Posted by asmodeus

Well the ice packs are going to work, and I would probably throw in a bunch of ice cubes in the sump. I would not worry about the the tap water ice cubes getting the temp down is the big thing. In a small tank the tap water ice cubes shouldnt be a issue IE like phosphates.

just make sure that you have alot of oxygen in the tank as you know that the colder the water that more O2 is in the water, the hotter is the less I would throw in a air stone too. Good luck man......

keep us informed

well the temp has come down i had the heater out all night and it dropped to 72.5 i am turning the heater back on and keeping a close eye on what made it not turn off. so far the casualties are just the potters angel. but my acro isnt looking good and some zoa's aswell as my open brain

[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.