TANK BUSTED

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johndirst;4406603; said:
I have to play devils advocate here:
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Look at where the heater was located (i.e. the suction cups), at the back of the tank, and look at where the point of failure is, almost to the front of the tank. If that heater caused that damage it must have been outside of the suction cups.

Please do not flame, I am NOT calling anyone a liar, I am simply pointing out what I see in the picture (and what Marineland will see). Anyone else agree?
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What I see is missing glass from the rear of the tank next to where the heater was and then the stress fractures on the glass extending to the front. What he shoudl do is take a better pic shoing that the reaf of the tank is no longer there.

Looks like what I woudl expect for the heater to be on the back of the tank, blow out the left side, glass vacates the wall and rest of glass has a ripple effect due to the force and has spider web fractures. Depending on the location and power of the initial impact you get other parts further away from the initial point to fall off hence why hela the wall is missing...
 
Since this has happened to other people Id get a lawyer who would work on commision and start a class action suite. Since your brother was hurt even though not bad you would have a good case.
 
i was a big fan of Marineland products, BEFORE Tetra bought them. i think the rash of bad stealth heaters is a direct result of that. Along with a few other changes that pissed me off and/or scared me.

lots of companies are doing that now though. look at the company that i work for. 10 years ago we "merged" (read as got taken over by another company). Changed the company's name and since then they have been reducing the workforce, and their realestate holdings. we (the company) now own 1/3 less realestate and have about 1/2 of the original workforce. most of our call centers have been moved to India, the ones that remain in the US are under fire and under staffed.

and i believe the service that customers get suffers for it also. i think this is what has happened to Marineland and what used to be their exceptional quality aquarium supplies.
 
i think this is what has happened to Marineland and what used to be their exceptional quality aquarium supplies.
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I have never liked them for a few reasons. I have never been a biowheel fan, thinking that Hagen's AC line is far superior.

the stealths are famously getting a reputation for being garbage. I remember back a few years ago when everyone jumped on their bandwagon when they first came out. I had my doubts and stuck with Ebo Jager. now, I see that I was probably right.

and the biggest thing that I don't like is that when they bought Perfecto Aquariums, they didn't improve their product line at all (and it needed it).

same thin glass (relative to Aqueon/Oceanic)
same thin seals (again relative to Aqueon/Oceanic)
same flimsy cross braces (again, relative to AQ/Oceanic).

all they did was bevel the front glass. wow.:screwy:

they had the chance to really improve upon the quality of Perfecto products and they didn't.

that was a big missed opportunity IMO.
 
Dude get a smaller tank and some cool smaller fish you like. I wouldn't leave the hobby over this. Actually you can do natives that don't even need a heater. Whatever you decide good luck and it sucks that this happened.
 
Hate to be the mean guy here....but if its truly marineland's fault with the heater, why is the area with the suction cups almost perfect,like no damage. The damage is next to where the heater was.... and there is no damage to the corner of the tank or back.......?

Is it possible that you did not have your heater in the suction cups and a fish kept banging it on the glass until it broke the glass. Without water in the tank, the heater would probably explode, not sure never tried. From what i see in the picture, the stealth had nothing to do with it and I think Marineland would say the same.

On another note, i know it sucks when something goes wrong. I have had several fluval 304 problems and soaked the floor of my 3rd floor apartment. I had a Fluval heater nuke my fish somehow ( water was really really hot) and I have several aqua clear 70 issues that involved the landlords coming in at 4 in the morning to see why water was in the apartment below me. But don't give up on keeping fish. You are angry now, but that will change.

Anyway, best of luck.
 
komodo - The back of the tank woudl look fine if the heater exploded out on the left side to the side wall. The corner is also one of the strongest areas of a tank and thus you would not see damage there unless it was one epic explosion and then you would be looking at en entire tank failure I bet with the rear and side completly seperating.
 
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