anyone had this problem?

[kristis2003]

I went on vacation for a few days, and when I came back I noticed that all of my fish (dwarf gouramis, lemon and cardinal tetras, blue paradise gouramis) were almost WHITE and were not swimming around at all. We then noticed that the heater/thermometer in our tank had literally blown up- there was a big hole in the side and glass was all over the bottom of the tank. As soon as we took the heater out and did a water change, all of the fish were fine again- except for one of our dwarf gouramis who finally died today. We did not know that this could happen, and are pretty upset at the loss of this fish. We are guessing that maybe it was next to the heater when it blew up and he never recovered from the shock. Has this ever happened to anyone?

 

[Abercrombie6202]

My friend Marissa who iw as helping breed her bettas had her submersible ehater half way out fot he water, retard LOL

it blew up all the babies died, but the male still lived

 

[AmazonTankz]

Your heater blew up?!?! I've never heard of that happening unless your water level was below the heater water line and not covering it all up. Thats the only thing I can think of.

 

[fishboy]

That happened to me once, the water level was really low, and it literally blwe up! Although i was able to save my severum.

 

[depthC]

It could also be from the heater glass touching the aquarium glass. Think about it for a second and im sure youll get why.

- depthC

 

[kristis2003]

Well we figured out that the water level was a little lower than it usually gets-- guess that did it. We are still wondering why only the one fish died though...all of the others are fine. I guess we were lucky!!

 

[Laura]

Man, that stinks. I have a Red Bellied Pacu, for about a year and 1/2 he was in a 29 gal. with 3 fighting guramis, a convict, and a red jewled. The pacu was about 10-12". Well, one night he go spooked, and flipped out, and broke the heater...it could have been bad, but good thing we were there. None of our fish died. Needless to say, we got a bigger tank.