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12-15-2006, 07:35 AM
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Hi,
Sorry to hear about your mishap. If you do decide to start over again. Give me a call and I'll see if I can help you get you back on your feet again. Good luck with the recovery. Paul|Reef Addictions|778-552-5673|reefaddictions@telus.net 
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12-15-2006, 07:58 AM
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I've got a couple questions for you if you feel up to it.
The "best practice" discussion on this topic is usually full of theory and conjecture so I bet we'd all like to know more about your setup. Did you have the tank on a GFCI plug? Did you have a ground probe? I'm not really sure either of these devices could have completely avoided this but I'm curious if you used them. Sorry to hear about it, I'd be pretty upset if I were you.
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12-15-2006, 12:50 PM
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i got 3 powerbars set up 2 have surge protection 1 did not guess which one the heather was pluged into. there might be a little hope i seen a crab moving around in there so maybe everything is not dead
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12-15-2006, 02:03 PM
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Seems like crabs are indestructible!
Sorry for your losses, Steve  What a terrible blow just before Christmas  One thing I have learned about heaters after reading lots of horror stories about them is to replace them every couple of years whether it looks like they need it or not.
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12-15-2006, 02:32 PM
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I had a heater do that a couple years ago. I too had procrastinated at installing the GFCI outlet, but I did have a grounding probe. There was a heck of a mess in the sump, lots of black scum and a horrible burnt smell. I did a big water change and ran a ton of carbon in it afterwards. I was fortunate to have no losses. Got the GFCI installed the next day and replaced the heaters in both tanks with titanium ones.
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12-15-2006, 02:48 PM
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I haven't had a heater blow up but I did have a mishap where my MH and Pc's fell in the tank. Not sure why but I didn't loose anything. Skimmer pulled rusty colored skum out of the tank for a couple of days from the various metels that coroded due to electrified salt water.
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12-15-2006, 06:08 PM
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90 gal cylinder tank with 10 gal sump... work in progress Last edited by scub steve; 12-15-2006 at 06:13 PM.
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12-15-2006, 06:43 PM
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Man that sucks. My theory....... If you have your heaters in your sump and have a grounding probe close by the electricity should go almost directly to the grounding probe. So none of the electricity should make it's way into the display tank thus reducing a killer jolt to any livestock. Now if you don't have a sump I would put the probe as close as I could to the most concentration of electrical things in the tank. This is just my thoughts. But man don't give up. Take this oportunity to make any changes you've always wanted to and start again.
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