omg soo messed up!!!!

[bighitrider45]

so this morning i left for school and my temp of water was at 78 degrees and when i go home it was about 92 degrees!!!!! i was like wtf?!?!?!??! so i quickly lowered my water down to about 80 degrees. Now everyything is good and stabel but i have a few worries. 1st will my LR rock die? and 2nd why did my heater randomly do this? its a really ghetto cheap one so that would probibly explain it lol but yeah is there anything i have to worry about?

 

[cwby416]

yes get a better heater, like a stealth. your lucky that you have nothing in there to kill other than the LR. I wouldn't worry too much, just keep an eye on your water params...the LR may have some more die off from the extreme temp.

 

[bighitrider45]

okay thanks Randy

 

[Brenden]

Def get a better heater. In the future do not "quickly" change your water parameters. It will just increase the stress.

 

[returnofsid]

I'd get that heater out of there ASAP. Don't even wait for a replacement. Your water temp won't fall much below the room temp of the room it's in. Heck, I haven't had heaters in any of my FW tanks for years and have never had heaters in my SW tanks. They stay just fine. I'd test for a small spike in ammonia or nitrites here in the next week but I think you'll be just fine.

 

[Scooterman]

Get a controller to almost eliminate this from ever happing, almost but way way better than the cheap heater controller!

 

[Brenden]

I have a ranco controller on my heaters to keep this from happening.

 

[bighitrider45]

okay so i dug up a better heater from storage, my temp is back to 78 and everything is stablized thanks for everyones help

 

[redrooster]

If you buy the appropriate sized heater even it it gets stuck on it shouldn't be able to raise your temp that much that quickly. I would also suggest getting a lower wattage heater.

 

[jezzeaepi]

Buy a ranco controller. Will be the best 80 bucks youve ever spent. Using a heater without one makes it literaly a ticking time bomb. Every heater will fail eventually. Maybe it will be a month, mabye a year, maybe 5... But you defintly dont want hundereds or thousands of dollars in livestock relying on one 15 dollar piece of equipment to survive. Its just asking for trouble.

 

[coil1002]

Ranco is the only way to go I use a dual stage one for my chiller one for the heater. By chiller I mean the small fan over the sump