faulty heater oh my

nearly fried Elvis yesturday
I thought he looked a bit frazzled
he was performing and looking uncomfortable.
looked at the temp 80
the rubber unbreakable heater i got a few weeks ago malfunctioning
so now looking to see if we still have box to take it back.£30 this heater

so now he has my spare standby GLASS

Back down to 76 now so chilling nicely.. phew.
if We had gone away for the weekend he would have been
fried..........................

Chez, I've just got a titanium one for my Oscar/Clarias tank, and just to be on the safe side a full length heater guard too.

thanks indi im taking this back if i can find the box.
this glass one is too small for his tank anyway its only 200w
but its just a standby one i have..

The titanium with digital thermostat sell for about £20-25 for a 300w on ebay (they are foreign but ok so far) I got this as not only do the big fish tend to be destructive but the clarias likes to sleep on the heater and gets burnt.

PFK are giving away heaters with a subscription - another oscar proof solution could be one of those heaters that you fit to an external filter oputlet pipe (assuming you use external filter)

Crikey, thank goodness you noticed. I've had three heaters fail on me in the past couple of years:

- one got stuck on but luckily I noticed
- one failed to come back on again after a water change so had to change it
- one stopped working altogether, tank temp went down to 14C but alas, I never noticed and the guppies in there succumbed to the cold temperature

Now, I make sure that I check the tanks as regularly as I can, at least every other day and I have an LCD strip on the front of each tank just to be sure.

Ive gone through a few in two years as well - im seriously thinking of one of those external (in the hose) versions or one like they are giving away with PFK

hi chez poor elvis good job you noticed bit of a lesson to everyone check all equipment
everyday if poss. - nice to hear he's chillin now.


dekker

Oh poor Elviis!! So glad he is ok chez.

the other lesson is to have spares

It may seem madness to have a £30 'spare' heater sat in a box doing nothing - but as I found out (on good friday) its sods law that something fails on the least convenient day

I have to fess I only have 1 soare heater for my main tank and smaller tank (a 70liter tank supplied with a 150W heater is unusual)

Whilst not the same subject but related - this is one reason internals are slightly better than externals - less to worry about going wrong

nice tip rich yeah a few bits and piece's is a great idea.

preact instead of react


dekker