Hello all!
So I bought a heater today to help nurse a sick Betta to health, and the heater I bought is a Marina Submersible heater, 25w. I noticed at the store that all of those heaters seemed to have some type of padding in the bottom where the actual heating area is. Im guessing its for protective purposes during transport, but for use at home, I would've assumed it would be unsafe to have packing-box type material in a live heater underwater... I just don't want to set my house on fire because of a weird packaging design! So can someone either reassure me that this is normal, and that it will just burn up slowly and safely inside the heater, or that I need to do something about it in order to get the packaging material out?
It looks like this if you were curious. Just keep in mind ALL of this line's heaters looked like this...
So I bought a heater today to help nurse a sick Betta to health, and the heater I bought is a Marina Submersible heater, 25w. I noticed at the store that all of those heaters seemed to have some type of padding in the bottom where the actual heating area is. Im guessing its for protective purposes during transport, but for use at home, I would've assumed it would be unsafe to have packing-box type material in a live heater underwater... I just don't want to set my house on fire because of a weird packaging design! So can someone either reassure me that this is normal, and that it will just burn up slowly and safely inside the heater, or that I need to do something about it in order to get the packaging material out?
It looks like this if you were curious. Just keep in mind ALL of this line's heaters looked like this...