ADCISCO
Aquarium Advice Freak
On my qtank I had one of those little heaters you get at walmart for about $10. It didnt have a temp control on it that you could read what the temp was but I had a thermometer in the tank but you could adjust it. Things have been fine. My kissing fish died this morning and after she died I changed the water to get ready to get some new fish. About an hr later I went back in there to notice that the light on the heater was blinking and then it was bubbling on the inside and then it just exploded. The whole end just blew off. Has anyone ever had this to happen to them? I know I will not buy another one of these because this thing was red hot when I tried to take it out of the tank so I just unplugged it and I'm waiting for it to cool. It looked like it had like green stuff bubbling in it.....Should I just totally dump the contents of the tank and rinse everything before getting new fish? This was just so weird. The whole bottom end of the glass tube just blew off.