Emergency Question???

da1jewfish

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I just came back from work and my whole room was shocked of power. I had just finished setting up my 10 gal. sump for my 44 gallon tank. The input hose leading to the sump was not tyed up to anything (just hanging in the sump), anyways it came loose when I wa sgone and drained close to 5 gal. of water and tripped the circuit. I had a check valve type deal to prevent the whole tank from being on my floor.
When I turned the circuit back on I forgot about the heater that was in the sump, when the water drained it popped before I could get to it. My big question can I hook the sump up again like nothing happened or do I have to worry about any heater components possibly in the water? It doesn't appear that therew as beacaue I didn't see anything in it other than 1 hole piece of the glass. Please anyone respond I am leaving for vacation tomorrow morning and really want the sump to be running by then! Thanks all!!!
 
By the way the brand of the heater is visi-therm 200watt. Also, is there any way to know if there is poison in there, wouldn't I be able to see it initally before dilluting? I really want to have this sump running, what would you all do in this position?
 
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LOL, I know what you mean about the heater. I had something similar happen to one of mine while doing a water change. I forgot to unplug it. When I started adding water back into the tank, the glass broke. I just removed the glass, vaccumed the top of the substract to make sure no fine particles of glass was left in the tank and everything was fine.

HTH
Dorothy
 
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