Heater exploded, water still good?

[LDMF]

I was making water in my rubbermaid 44 gallon can. I added the salt to the rodi water, put a heater in with a power head for circulation. About an hour later I heard a loud bang. Immediately I ran down stairs to see what made the noise. I followed my nose and after a couple of minutes discovered that it was my glass 300 watt heater in my new water.

Should I toss the water? Hate to throw the money away but would rather be safe. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

 

[Misled]

I'd toss it.

 

[LDMF]

I just dumped the water. Better safe than sorry.

Anyone have a heater for sale?

 

[bigmatt1992]

id dump it you dont know what kind of metels they had in the heater for the coils or anything i have a heater pm sent

 

[superstein61]

shoot - just sold 3 heaters I had a week or so ago fior $5 each. Two were barely used - picked them up new when a local distributor was going out of business and just used on a couple occassions when I was mixing a lot of water.

oh well. Good move on tossing the water

 

[cloakerpoked]

I wouldn't think the filaments would be anything dangerous...although copper is a good conductor, so may have been used, in which case it's always better safe than sorry. Had 3 pennys fall into my 20 gallon nano about 3 years ago, and that's why I have a 120 now. Everything in the nano started looking stressed (didn't know why) so I moved them all to my 120 FOWLR. Only when I was cleaning the nano about 2 months later did I find the first penny, and then quickly found the second and 3rd. It was a small water column, and longer exposure, but was DEFINITELY why the corals started looking stressed.