COOKED!!

[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.