Heater blows up!!!

[FreeWillie]

Make sure you watch what your fish are doing to your heaters. My oscar knocked my heater around so that the bottom of the heater was sticking out of the water by an inch. I was sitting at my desk when I heard a huge POP and looked over at the tank and the heater was in flames "under water". I quickly unplug the heater and fished it out and the glass particles. No fish were hurt during this. So I replaced the heater with a better one that will not break with fish attacking it and made sure it was well below the water level. Those who have other means of having the heater in their sumps or else where are lucky.

And a word to the wise. Get the toughest heater that you can get if you are going to have big and aggresive fish. They have some now that are not made of glass.

 

[night flight]

Couldn"t agree more ,been there done that, only stealth or titanium on controllers.

 

[Mystix212]

A glass/acrylic/steel cage around it would be good.

 

[Darth-Jaguar]

Also remember to unplug it when cleaning the tank. I forgot to once, and I heard a snap and hiss, and then smelled something burning. When I looked into my tank, i noticed my heater had blown up and shattered into the water.

 

[Druu]

A glass/acrylic/steel cage around it would be good.

Cover doesn't help much. It's the overheating out of water that causes the glass to break. Best way to prevent this is to keep it totally submerged and be sure to unplug when taking heater out.

 

[Eupterus]

I read somewhere( maybe it was here?) that an oscar hit a heater, shattered it and was imediatly killed . Glass heaters were basically made for small community fish me thinks.

 

[gomezladdams]

Oscars love to play tetherball with heaters or basically bust up anything in the tank.hide the heater behind a solid piece of driftwood or use an inline heater

 

[guppy]

Oscars aren't the only ones, fish seem to be attracted to that flickering red light the heaters produce. I had a marbled goby actually swallow most of a heater on night, I had to pull the damn thing out of it's gullet.

 

[Rockbass6]

Yea I always here my fish messing with my heater. Expecially at night I just hear a loud smack from time to time. They also love to play with my floating thernometer I have in the tank.

 

[---XR---]

Oscars aren't the only ones, fish seem to be attracted to that flickering red light the heaters produce. I had a marbled goby actually swallow most of a heater on night, I had to pull the damn thing out of it's gullet.

yup, i saw somebody's 15" jaguar try to eat his 14" heater, got alot in his body before the guy got it out of him.