if there be a fish god!!!

if there be a fish god, i have managed to piss him off!!!! two weeks ago i lost all but two frontosa. then today i can in from working in the yard, to find all of my angels at the top of the tank like they were feeding. so i went to see what they were up to and i saw it......125 was the timp in the tank!!!!!! (tuff little fish!) they werent eating they were starving for air! well i did a quick water change and got the timp to 75 and took out the heater. then i noticed a dead bichardi and then another...and so on. 5 in totel. bichardi...(not so tuff a fish)!!!! that freekin sucks!!!!! so im just wandering if iv mad the gods of all fish a bit upset with me? (sorry mike205) i had no idea that brand new heater would cr@p out on me! and it was sat to the lowest setting. maby i miss the post that said ( WHATCH YOUR FREEKIN HEATERS DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!) well i guess ill just have to start over.

Sorry for your bad luck. You really do have to watch new heaters like a hawk in order to make sure they aren't defective. Can't believe how many are.

Bag up your fish (freeze them if you can't make it back to the store tomorrow) If you just purchased the heater in the last week - I'd make the LFS replace everything right then and there.

That is why I use space heaters to heat the room.

well i just tryed to keep them at 82. and the heater hasnt been cutting on and off. so t didnt think there would be a prob.im gonna go back to the el cheepo from walmart. that dang thing always works right.

aww scotty! im sorry everyone seems to be having some bad luck with fish recently maybe the fish god is just PMSing.

FishVixen wrote:

That is why I use space heaters to heat the room.

I'm envisioning 24 students per class and their comments if I used your technique

I did have a bit of bad luck recently myself. Woke up Wed morning and thought it was a tad cold. Wandered through the house to the thermostat and realized hubby had left 'cool' on. It was 45 outside, 57 inside. Talk about some cooooooold fish in all but my two heated tanks.

That afternoon I noticed that one of my male bettas was covered in ick. He'd been fine (but cold) that morning - and none of the other bettas in the divided up tank had it. Must've been more suseptable to temp stress (might be from a more linebreed line). Been battling it since. He's now healing up in an isolation tank.

Yep, Posidan's angry!

what brand of heater are we talking about?
you get what you pay for in this hobby. sorry for your loss.

"Marineland has issued a voluntary recall on the Stealth Pro Heater on sizes 100-300 watts. This product is being recalled due to quality issues. If you have this product please stop using this immediately. Unplug the heater from the tank and allow it to cool 15 minutes and then remove it."

mine was already returned and replaced. but I still only use cheap heaters for w/c's not to heat my tank.

Hey Cindy ,,,, W/C's ???

water changes. sorry its a habit. like cuc,ph,tds,gph the list go's on:)

i have about 5 used heaters and i got to knock on wood cuz i haven't got any problem with those yet...