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    Posted: May 18 2013 at 12:42pm
Changed my filter sock and got shocked when my fingers touched the water. All the water in the aquarium is electrocuting me. What's going on and what do I do?
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Never mind I unplugged things one by one and figured out it must've been something wrong with one of my pumps.
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I would get a grounding probe.
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Get a new pump... Not a grounding probe. Usually means the pump is bad or going there. Same with anything else.
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Sure. That was a given. Get both. :)
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Aloha,

Thumbs Up It's awesome that you knew how to check it by unplugging things one by one. Thumbs Up

One difficulty I have with grounding probes is that when electricity is grounding into the tank it goes to the Ground and the hobbyist may not feel it with a shock. Undetected, the electricity runs through the tank for who knows how long, possibly causing weird problems with the animals.

I've seen some awesome looking tanks with grounding probes so please take what I say here with a grain of salt. (pun intendedSmile) As a matter of fact, today my wife and I saw DMowers awesome tanks. I didn't ask which ones had grounding probes, but it didn't matter. They were all awesome. Thumbs Up

Another difficulty is that grounding probes also disrupt the operation of GFI outlets, though I recommend GFI's for lights and heaters only, not pumps. We don't want pumps shutting off for any reason other than a real emergency, a problem that has happened with hobbyists here who lost a lot of animals when the water stopped.

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Mark  Hug


Edited by Mark Peterson - May 18 2013 at 5:28pm
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