Are you Kidding me??!?!?!?!

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  1. ZepQuarium

    ZepQuarium Spaghetti Worm

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    Just got home from work to find a Dead

    1)Male Leapord Wrasse
    2)Scissortail Goby
    3)Fire Goby
    4) Flame Angel...

    And The Mandarin is nowhere to be seen at all...

    And I would suspect the female leapard wrasse, and the Goby with my Pistol shrimp is dead, but I won't know until I lift up their cave rocks.

    $180 worth of livestock dead for sure,
    another $120 probably dead.

    Everything was fine when I left.

    when I found the deaths I tested water, normal parameters.

    Temp... was 94.5 degrees!!!!


    MY FRIGGEN HEATER JUST KILLED MOST OF MY TANK!!!!


    Right now the only obvious survivors are the 2 osc clows, and my starry blenny, and some snails I see moving.
     
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  2. benbabcock

    benbabcock Bubble Tip Anemone

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    stealth heater?
     
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  3. silor

    silor Sea Dragon

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    ouch bro been there I replace my heaters every 9 months now due to the same thing
    I'm sorry again I'm sure the rock will be half OK and the sand half OK too just a FYI
     
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  4. mx36

    mx36 Astrea Snail

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    Sorry to hear, I can't imagine coming home to that. I think when I set up my next tank I am going to have a system built in to shut down the heaters when it gets to a certain temp.
     
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  5. reefmonkey

    reefmonkey Giant Squid

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    Man that really sucks! :(
    Sorry for your troubles. What type of heater was it?
     
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  6. DustinB32

    DustinB32 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    That sucks!! Had that happen with a hydor 400 watt heater on my fw cichlid tank. Luckily for me they are very hardy fish...
     
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  7. kornaco40B

    kornaco40B Spaghetti Worm

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    That does suck... Any ideas on how you're gonna try to prevent it from happening again?
     
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  8. IanB

    IanB 3reef Sponsor

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    A controller is a great investment for heater back up control...
     
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  9. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    I'm so sorry to hear this!!! :(
     
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  10. haloist

    haloist Skunk Shrimp

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    : ( that happened to me too. that sucks. maybe you could get a chiller next time?
     
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