Don't do what I just did....

[Clown79]

Thanks everyone for all the encouragement.

 

Tank is fine, so I am too.😁

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2 hours ago, Christopher Marks said:

 

We've all been there! On my last water change I did the opposite and forgot to unplug my heater. It ran dry for a good 10 minutes and got insanely hot before I realized what I did, fortunately it didn't shatter. I'm thinking that I should add some kind of visual reminder to myself, a big sticker on my water change bucket, inside the gear cabinet door, or something like that.

Are you using a glass?  Ime, they eventually let water in one way or another.   I like titanium heaters but I know your set up is a little small for one.  Speaking of which, I need to get a new heater.  I think mine is around 5 years old.  

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2 hours ago, flypenfly said:

Huh?

He works for Amazon and they give him free cars to drive 

[Goldenreef]

I've done it once, pretty scary

[scrappy34]

after reading this thread, I just realized that I NEVER have turned my heater off during a water change.. never even thought about it until now, my heater has never done anything weird *knocks on wood* 

 

guess I'll need to start doing this lol 

[Clown79]

45 minutes ago, scrappy34 said:

after reading this thread, I just realized that I NEVER have turned my heater off during a water change.. never even thought about it until now, my heater has never done anything weird *knocks on wood* 

 

guess I'll need to start doing this lol 

I learned to turn my off because of 2 scenarios

 

1. 55g tank, during some maintenance I took the heater out, put it on my carpeted floor and yup, it burnt the carpet cause I forgot to unplug it...dumb ass moment of mine. lol

 

2. once again, forgot to unplug my heater in my 10g, this was during my back chamber clean out - heater started smoking from air contact. Caught it in time to do no damage.