Ken,
I'm so sorry to hear about your bad luck. I had the same thing happen with a Rio
powerhead a couple years ago, it exploded in my sump. My whole tank smelled like an
electrical fire for over a week, even with massive water changes... Lost some animals,
but many of the corals I thought were goners eventually did recover.
Visi-therms are good heaters - very accurate - but also very fragile. Either it was
defective or something bumped it. In additon to the polyfilters, you might also want
to add a bag of CupriSorb for a while, for extra help in case of copper contamination.
I keep an extra 40 gal reservoir of RO/DI water that you're welcome to if you're
in/near NJ. I could throw in some salt and mix it up for you, if you can use it.
Nancy
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>Subject: Re: Please Help!!!!!!!!
>From: "Ken Ziggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:54:56 -0400
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>When I left this morning for work I have a habit of checking the temp and
>the sump water level every morning.The water level was exaxtly were I have
>it set for my top-off system and the temp was 79 degrees and the heater was
>on.I went to work at 6 a.m. My wife called me at 9 a.m. at work and sayed
>something was wrong with the tank it smelled and still smells like
>electrical burning.You should see the heater both ends were blown out .The
>top of the heater were the control knob is was burned to a crisp.The metal
>wrapping under the glass were you read the temp was burned and charred like
>a metal can in a burn barrel.I think that is what what poisoned the
>tank,lots of metal deposits from the burnt coils and metal covering????I
>wish I had enough saltwater mixed up to do the whole tank.The goby just
>died.Thats all my fish gone because of a faulty heater.I will post the brand
>name later.I lost a beautiful sailfin Tang,watchman goby.diamondback sleeper
>gobie,cleaner wrasse,flame hawkfish,purple bicolor blennie,green spotted
>mandarin and cleaner shrimp.The only upbeat note is that my corals about 15
>of them are showing signs of opening a little.I have done a 10 gallon water
>change and I am waiting for 5 more gallons of ro/di water to get
>done.Depressing.I just got done hardplumbing my tank with an iwaki 40 rlxt
>and I was going to get my refugium going this weekend and now this.I just
>can't explain how bad my tank water smells now like electrical burn.The
>heater itself smelled so bad I had to put it in a ziplock bag.I thought
>Visa-therm was a good quality heater?Does anyone suggest a good fully
>submersible heater?
>Thanks for the info and I'll keep ya informed on my progress.Ken.-----
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