I get to start over again

[whatcaneyedo]

This reaffirms my hatred of heaters. It seems like half of the reported tank crashes I hear about are directly related to a heater. That really sucks. Maybe you can find a good brand of titanium heater to replace the one that exploded/broke? Won bros and aqua-medic are both garbage but someone must make a good one.

[naesco]

Very sorry. It is truly sad to come home a find one of your fish lying on the sand let alone all of them.
Was it a titanium heater? I went through 2 Won failures and would not think of ever buying a titanium heater again.

[TheKid]

I have a fluval heater could this happen to me too?

[toxic111]

I put in a Titanium heater now, not sure what brand.

I do have a grounding probe in as well as the GFI plug.

[gobytron]

why not use a stealth heater?

I use them to cook rocks....almost indestructible....

[BlueWorldAquatic]

Sorry for your loss.

I actually replace all the titanium heaters in the store, The failure rate was about 30% from the ones I replaced.

I use Rena's or Marineland Stealths in the store now.

I like the Hydor Inline heaters for home.

Ken

[Delphinus]

How does a titanium heater fail? Or do you mean the controller fails? I have a Won brothers heater and yeah only got about a year on it before the controller went wonky, but I assumed the titanium tube was still workable so I cut it off, junked the controller and tossed the tube into my salvaged-bits drawer for a day I might try to pigtail it off a Ranco heater controller or other electronic (ie. Profilux or Reefkeeper or whatever) type controller...

[Red Coral Aquariums]

It is funny as I am slowly (not fast enough in my opinion) changing all my store heaters to titanium. NEVER had a problem with titanium as I use Jalli and Aqua Heat(sunlight supply).
Kevin