How you feelin? Hot Hot Hot

[BeefyG]

I got up this morning to a near total tank wipeout. I went to pull out a fish to look for the cause of the death and the water was warm... very warm. 98 degrees to be exact. The slightly oversized heater had gone into runaway. I knew I should have had two or more lower wattage heaters but outlets are at a premium and I've never had one break on me like this. I knew better but... The only survivors were some angelfish, a bala shark, and a clown loach. The death toll: 2 Burmese Border Loaches, 3 Coolie Loaches, about 10 Corydoras, 4 yellow labs, and 1 peacock. I couldn't account for 1 clown loach, 1 yellow lab, and I could've sworn I had more cories in there. I removed the dead fish, unplugged the heater, turned off the light, and double dosed some Prime in there. I think the Prime may have been a mistake but we'll see if anybody is still swimming when I get home tonight.

[freespool]

ouch, sorry bro

[imagirlgeek]

Oh man....that sucks. I'm so sorry. I've had that happen before too, but I was lucky in that I was here and it was one of the tanks in the living room so I noticed it in time. The tank had heated up to 96 degrees.

The only thing I did different was that I added several air stones to add aeration while the tank cooled back down.

Again, so sorry to hear about your losses.

[supadave]

The only thing I did different was that I added several air stones to add aeration while the tank cooled back down.

+1

[jhenry]

my poor corys.

[fshfrk]

Sorry about your loss. That is one of the only disasters we can not control. Except with a temp controller. Next time no prime it will remove oxygen. Like Traci said oxygenate the water. At that temp there is very oxygen anyway.:sad:

[electricblue]

sorry to hear that feel your loss, i recently lost half my demasoni and only 1 simo is left out of the colony i had

[BeefyG]

Well it looks like I have some survivors. Everybody that was left was still alive when I got home. I already had a sponge filter in that tank so I think thats what saved the few I have left. I forgot about Prime taking oxygen out until I was already on my way to work.