Crash

[dragracer]

So i went in for surgery on friday and was in bed for two days..........seems I had the dreaded heater malfunction and baked most of my livestock. Which was only snails, emeralds, blue and red hermits and a coral banded shrimp. At least there was no fish right?! That was sarcasm. Any loss sucks. i few of my hermits survived but I turned the rocks upside looking for all that could have died..........ammonia is outragous. I got all my survivors in a QT tank.........but it my best bet to pull all the rock out, clean it and start over? Or do you think a 50-75% water change to clear up the ammonia.? I have a feeling what your all going to say but I thought I should ask before I go back to the drawing board.

 

[tizzo]

Don't start over, you will hafta go through a cycle again. Since this spike has already put you into another cycle, let it go and wait it out.

 

[dragracer]

Yeah you know I was thinking about doing that. I am just so disgruntled right now I had to ask.

 

[lion_crazz]

well, as bad as it is, at least it happened now and not when your tank was completely established. I am sorry to hear that it happened though...

 

[murph]

What brand of heater was it?
Need to put it on my ever growing aquarium equipment list of shame.

 

[cinders]

I'm also interested in the type of heater it was.
I just had to return 2 heaters in a row. Luckily,
I caught it before it got past 82 degrees.
Sorry for your loss

 

[gamma]

So sorry for your loss!! We also had to return two heaters when We were starting our tank (just had LR thankfully), I wish I would of wrote down the brand!

 

[mikeyjer]

Talking about heaters,,,,I was FREAKING out when we bought a new eheim heater!!! It wouldn't shut off, it was really cooking my tank big time. I had NO sleep that night observing the temperature in my tank, my corals started looking like crap then I took out that darn heater and put my old one that doesn't work well back in, at least it doesn't over cook my fish and corals. I put in the heater at 8pm, it ran well for a while, did the adjustment cause it was a bit high, I turned it ALL the way down to the lowest setting cause it wouldn't stop running, that was around mid-night. Then temp went from 77-79 Then it went up a degree at 2am to 80, then at 3am it went to 81, then by 4am, it was at 83, that's when I yanked out that heater. I had to work at 10am, I felt like crap and had to take off work that afternoon and went back and changed my heater to a different brand. It doesn't warm up that high, but at least it's not constantly running and cooking my tank!!!!!!!