MoxieGrrrl
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hi hi everyone!
Discovered that my Visi-Therm submersible heater has apparently been slowly cracking over the past few weeks - I had been hearing an odd noise, what sounded like piece of glass tapping once on another piece of glass, every so often from the direction of the tank. I never saw any problems with the dresser the tank is on, nor did I see any problem with the tank's glass. Today I noticed that the heater looked like the casing had cracks and then noticed that there was water inside the chamber (thought this was a bad sign).
Decided to take it out and inspect it and the casing fell apart befor I could pull it out. Recovered the pieces (reassembled the casing to make sure I got it all), and used my back up (thank GOODNESS I thought to get a backup heater!). I want to replace the backup already because it's a HOB and my top doesn't close all the way now.
But has anyone ever had that happen to them? Is this something I should write to the company about? I have a very docile community of fish - none have the stength or inclination to ram the heater (and whenever I heard the tap noise, I always watched to see if the fish were up to some mischief, but there was never any movement to suggest so).
I like the submersible because it was so easy to set and I didn't need tocut any more of the cover away to make room for it. Any opinions?
Discovered that my Visi-Therm submersible heater has apparently been slowly cracking over the past few weeks - I had been hearing an odd noise, what sounded like piece of glass tapping once on another piece of glass, every so often from the direction of the tank. I never saw any problems with the dresser the tank is on, nor did I see any problem with the tank's glass. Today I noticed that the heater looked like the casing had cracks and then noticed that there was water inside the chamber (thought this was a bad sign).
Decided to take it out and inspect it and the casing fell apart befor I could pull it out. Recovered the pieces (reassembled the casing to make sure I got it all), and used my back up (thank GOODNESS I thought to get a backup heater!). I want to replace the backup already because it's a HOB and my top doesn't close all the way now.
But has anyone ever had that happen to them? Is this something I should write to the company about? I have a very docile community of fish - none have the stength or inclination to ram the heater (and whenever I heard the tap noise, I always watched to see if the fish were up to some mischief, but there was never any movement to suggest so).
I like the submersible because it was so easy to set and I didn't need tocut any more of the cover away to make room for it. Any opinions?