Electricity Leaking !!! (or not)

[EricTheRed]

So, during my normal Saturday morning maintenance ritual my index finger touched the water in my sump and I got quite a shock. I kept dipping it in the various chambers to see where the leak might be coming from. Much to my surprise I could feel a sting in each chamber. I then dipped my finger in the tank...same thing!!! My finger was tingling from all the shock so I used my other index finger to keep searching for the leak.

It was then that I realized it was just a large papercut on my finger that was stinging from the saltwater....DOH!!!

 

[anicemess]

 

[Herbie]

Lol,I did the same thing when a cut on my knuckle opened while I was moving rock to my new fuge. I thought for sure I got stung by something terrible but it was just a tiny cut from the day before.

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[EricTheRed]

Yea, I'm just glad it wasn't a real leak

 

[Cubbies]

LOL! Happens to me all the time! I get paranoid but it's alway some sort of cut or something. The smallest little scrapes can make you feel it. Good to know everything's ok !

 

[yogoshio]

I think this is where the glove police chime in

 

[EricTheRed]

I think this is where the glove police chime in

Wearing gloves is a lot like using a QT tank. You never think anything bad is going to happen...

 

[yogoshio]

Yeah. I've never had a QT tank, but I've never had the room for one either. I also don't use gloves all the time, lol.

 

[Herbie]

I need to get some like they have at mcf.

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[yogoshio]

You can use any rubber long length glove. I actually like using nitrile gloves I get from work if I'm doing long-term water work so it saves my hands.

 

[lunacris]

I never use gloves how else would you find loose electricity lol ground probe people need to chime in now i usually get that feeling from my fingernail thingy the wife double checks

 

[yogoshio]

I've always used a ground probe. I just got it as part of my initial setup every time. Better be safe than sorry!

 

[ColaAddict]

Ideally each equipment should have a GCFI. You don't want to use 1 GCFI for the whole system because if one equipment gives out stray current (ie when your lights turn on, sometimes) your whole tank shuts down and you might not be around to reset the GCFI. Those darn things are so expensive though.

 

[yogoshio]

Yeah, I just throw some groun probes in different spots and call it a day. Way cheaper, and has the same effect but without shutting parts of the system down.

 

[anicemess]

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