Tank suffered electrical shock!!!

[Ariel110G]

So it looks like my tank has suffered from a major electrical shock!!! When I got home I right away realized that something was wrong, all my corals & my 3 anemones where all closed up line never before, invertebrates/cleaning crew are in shock as well & I think some are dead, all fish are just fine and eating like all always, when I opened my stand cabinet my refugim light was in the sump in water, totally covered!!!! I unplugged it right away.
So my question is what will happen to my corals & anemones, (one of them has moved already) and do I just give them some time to get back to them self, or for something like this do I have to do a water change ASAP???

 

[jamesonwhiskey]

i would say to not do a water change if your parameters are all within normal... wait it out a day or two and see if they recover.

 

[Ariel110G]

Dose any one else have other suggestions

 

[marrone]

The question is did the light break while it was in the water or did any of the stuff in the light fixture get into the water? If it did then you probably should do a water change and run some carbon. If it didn't then I would hold off on the water change, as your animals are already stressed out enough and a water change will only make it worst. Just remove any dead things and watch the tank, if everything is good then you should be ok.

 

[under10minutes]

Nothing you can do at this point. You invented a cure for a massive outbreak of Aiptisia.

Think about it this way......lightning hits reefs and that's much more powerful then the juice coming out of your outlet.

Maybe check equipment that would be in your water. Probes, sensors, pumps. Make sure they are operating as normal.

This was the face your snail made :snail:

 

[Ariel110G]

No the light did not break at all, It was just under water.

thanks for the help

 

[duromega]

Nothing you can do at this point. You invented a cure for a massive outbreak of Aiptisia.

Think about it this way......lightning hits reefs and that's much more powerful then the juice coming out of your outlet.

Maybe check equipment that would be in your water. Probes, sensors, pumps. Make sure they are operating as normal.

This was the face your snail made :snail:

:funnypost

 

[46nBliss]

Get a ground probe too if you havent done so already.

 

[trinimaddness]

I hope everything turns out ok I have egg crate over my fuge so if my light should ever fall for whatever reason it would just drop on it.. Maybe give that a try???

 

[TUSI]

U should install a Gfi outlet so it trips the outlet. God forbid u r doing something in the sump and the light fall you will get fried

 

[Tonyscoots84]

i got blasted with 600v AC for about 10 seconds and im still alive (thankgod). I vote yes on the gfi outlet and grounding probe.

 

[strgazr27]

i got blasted with 600v AC for about 10 seconds and im still alive (thankgod). I vote yes on the gfi outlet and grounding probe.

If you got blasted w 600Vac and can write the above it must have been rediculously low amperage.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

it was a 600v service and i was shaking like a leaf for 10 seconds. finally got my hands free had to sit down cause my heart was off beating. electricity is pretty scary but thankgod it wasnt DC cause i work with solar.....

 

[strgazr27]

it was a 600v service and i was shaking like a leaf for 10 seconds. finally got my hands free had to sit down cause my heart was off beating. electricity is pretty scary but thankgod it wasnt DC cause i work with solar.....

Like I said, low amps. You don't let go of 600Vac and high amps. Your either knocked off it, blown off it or melt to it. Glad you're ok. But that may explain a few things lol

 

[Tonyscoots84]

yea i know what your talking about. something knocked me off of it cause i knew i was done for (and no one was around me). one of the few scary incidents of my life but anyways electrical safety is important when it comes to our reef tanks and lifes. Play it safe, we have our hands in our tanks alot to risk getting blasted

 

[Ariel110G]

it looks like I'll do a water change today

 

[strgazr27]

Tony here is a 480v 600amp breaker. Yeah that's a Coke can. Just some of the power stuff I work with.

And our dual, 540vdc battery banks. That's a normal stepladder for scale.

 

[Custom05Taco]

Update did you loose anything?

 

[STHILL]

Here is some of the power i work with !!!

 

[Ariel110G]

Back to the topic

Update did you loose anything?

Back to the topic:wink1:

Well I did do a water change yesterday. And today ill change the carbon that?s in my reactor.
It looks like I have lost most of my snails, and I think all pods that where in my sump and tank are gone!!!! My tank is mostly a soft corals reef tank, they all look like they are still in some stress but some of my polyp corals are opening up now. One of my three anemones did disconnected himself from the rock he was on but I got him in a net, but he looks like he is going to be ok. ALL FISH ARE IN GRATE CONDETION!!!!
I think there was more than just the electrical shock affect here, I think something was realest into the water, the bulbs did not break, but I do know that the light was under water for some time until I got home, ( one of my kids got to it, now I have a lock on the door) the light that I did use was one of the old coralife refugim lights compact fluorescent , I?m thinking if something from the light ballast of the bulbs got into the water because the water did have some white hazey color to its.
I?m so mad at myself my tank was in perfect condition, a simple lock could have prevented all this mess. Witch my wife has told me for some time to get a lock on the door of the stand.