COOKED!!

[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.....

[toytech]

Most people have experienced a heater failure at least once , they are less than perfect pieces of equipment . Ive had them both stick on and off . At least you didn't loose any fish or a bunch of coral , but if you had turbo snails in there the smell wont go away for a while that's an unholy kinda funk.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by toytech

Most people have experienced a heater failure at least once , they are less than perfect pieces of equipment . Ive had them both stick on and off . At least you didn't loose any fish or a bunch of coral , but if you had turbo snails in there the smell wont go away for a while that's an unholy kinda funk.

nothing in there but brown hairy mushrooms and a few nicer blue ones....no cuc.

It smelled, trust me.

I've had heaters fail before, I shouldn't have put my faith in the red sea one and bought a more reliable brand instead.

[brisco]

I actually had the opposite problem recently, I was away on holiday and got a bunch of emails from my apex that my tank temp was dropping out of parameters. I called my dad over to unplug my tank heater and plug in the spare. I waited...but the tank temp kept dropping! WTF??? Turns out that I turned down the house thermostat when we left and my 300 watt heater wasn't up to the job. Lucky that I figured it out and called my dad back to plug in both heaters which did the trick. No damage.