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Old 01-18-2007, 04:07 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by StarLab
Had this happen in a piranha tank once. Thankfully all the tanks are on GFI's (Ground fault interrupters) which killed the power immediately. (Nasty guy bit into the heater while chasing his food! Watched him do it!)
That would have be been a good scare. I would of thought the power would of been cut off when the heater exploded, but it hadn't gone off all day and did't go off when the heater turned on the second time :/

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Originally Posted by Bear
what brand of heater was this?
It wasn't a known brand, and I got the whole tank set up secondhand off a club member. So really I probably brought it on myself, but as I said I didn't think it was that big a deal if heaters went bust.

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