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Act this week: Winter is when aquarium heaters fail, usually overnight when the room is coldest and the heater is running hardest. A stuck or dead heater can crash a tank before morning.Brisbane nights are dropping into single digits, so your heater is doing far more work than it was a month ago. Older units, cheap thermostats and heaters running near their wattage limit are the ones that give out now. Both failure modes bite: a heater that stops heating lets the tank slide cold, and one stuck on can cook it.Your winter heater checklist Add a second thermometer that...