Very STUPID story from yesterday.

[Beverly]

Thank heaven you survived

You serious DIY big tank reefers would laugh your *sses off at how I have my tanks set up. No sumps, no refugiums, no skimmers, no calcuim reactors, just Hagen powerheads with Quickfilters filled with foam. It's the "keep it simple" approach

I'll bet I've saved hundreds of gallons of water from the floor over the years. The closest I've come to stupidly harming myself was not unplugging a heater and keeping it out of water while doing a water change on a 7 gal nano. Just as I put the heater into the water, it exploded. No harm was done to the tank or me, but obviously the heater was a goner.

Holy cr*p, Jonathan, you are one lucky dude

[Doug]

Glad your ok Jon.

[titus]

Hello,

Wow.
The house breaker should have tripped when the whole ballast is submerged. But yes, you do need to have GFCI for the water floods and other occasions.

Titus

[TANGOMAN]

Glad to hear you are here to post this !!! Are you challenging me for this months "Darwin Award"...?

[DiscusZ]

Jon Jon Jon.. Now if the baby was here you could of used the "New Father Syndrome" as an excuse Ya have to be careful.. . I had something similar happen once, my glass canopy broke on my 77g while I was working in my freshwater tank.. luckily the light was facing upside down.

Glad your fine dude.. we still have to hook up so don't kill yourself

[Delphinus]

One truly frightening experience. Maybe ballasts should be strapped down if they are elevated and nearby to a body of open water (in addition to grounding probes and GFCI).

Having felt 175W once when I was too lazy to turn off my halide ballast when putting in a new bulb (all of week ago ... you'd think I'd know better by now), I don't even want to begin to imagine how much one would feel (or not feel ) 400W.

Anyways as I spoke to you already about this Jonathan you already know that I am glad to hear you are still around to speak of this, but I'll say it publicly too. Glad you are still around to speak of this. For pity's sake be careful, you have others to think about! And please never hesitate to call on me if you need an extra set of hands.... You know I'm here for ya buddy ..... Methinks you need a spotter in that tank room when you do work in there!!!!

[DiscusZ]

Same goes here if you need a "spotter" and I am only 5 mins away from your house so call on me if need be.

Jim

[Canadian Man]

Thanks Everyone.

Wendell, I think the Powerbar would have tripped. I do have all my stuff plugged into powerbars. Now that I think about that I guess it's a good thing I do.

Doug, Yea I think I win November's Darwin award.

Regarding the RC thing, Can anyone post a link to the thread and I will post my story there too.

[ABreefkpr]

Glad to hear your OK Jonathan. Ya maybe the power bar might of tripped but it's good to hear that you didn't have to test that theory.
Where's the sweating bullets Emoticon

Keith

[Quinn]

I think to win a Darwin award you have to actually die... maybe Jon gets runner-up.