POP goes the heater

Hi,

just mixing up a new batch of water, and my heater just started smelling, i turned around and it went pop started fizzing and sparking like crazy.

that sucks i know, but i guess a very gradual fill from the sump will over come this problem for now, plus a sit in the sun for the bucket of water.

Question is, after i get the heat and glass out of my bucket, will the heater have left anything in the bucket that will contaminate the water?

only reason for asking is it takes a long time to fill up my ro/di container that i use, and i almost empty it when i got water changes.

Cheers.

 

i wouldnt think so, its just has a heating element and probably ceramic in the middle.
next time go titanium or plastic so a sudden change in temp wont shatter it

 

thanks, i didnt realise they did titanium ones?
i've got a plasic one at the moment in my main setup, this was just a cheap one to heat up the water for changes, obviously didnt pay off.

 

Oh man!
It is something to keep in mind now...
Sorry to hear that !

 

sux man, just make sure you get all the glass.

 

all done and water changed, luckily it only exploded into 3 large peices, which i pushed back together to check there wasnt any small bits fallen off, as far as i can see there wasn't. slowly filling up in the sump pint glass at a time was a bit of hassel, but only had half a degree max temp difference which im happy with, fish and coral all seem fine .

Do we ask for threads to be closed here?

 

i dunno, good question.

 

may just always be open thread for future refrence

 

no they dont get closed unless they go too far off topic or break the rules

 

IMO...keep this thread open so others can see and learn about heaters. Maybe protect someone from getting shocked. Glad you were ok!!!