Disaster

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

Well tonight when trying to work on overflow. I had to place an old heater in the tank to maintain temp. Well just so happens that the heater had a short. Went to grab something out of the tank and ended up getting electrocuted, making me grip the tank and couldn't let go. Causing me to have the tank tip over on me. Broke the tank.

What can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again....if my dad let's me have another tank

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

And what does my dad do when all this happens? Worry about the house....pays no mind to his son

always reefin · Nov 4, 2015

Yikes, gotta love this hobby sometimes

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

This sucked

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

What can I do too not let this happen again?

drstratton · Nov 4, 2015

Oh wow, looks like that needs to be stitched! This could have been so much worse! Do you have your equipment plugged into a GFCI?

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

I had it plugged into a reef keeper lite. Into an outlet....bad mistake....

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

Also did a decent number to the carpet. My dad is not happy and he says there's not going to be another fish tank...which ticks me off because this doesn't happen often and it was an accident that couldn't have been helped.

drstratton · Nov 4, 2015

Any time you have electrical equipment around water, it needs to be plugged into a GFCI outlet. I'm no expert and probably someone else here can explain it a lot better than I can!

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

Well at first I did then got excited when I acquired a reef keeper and didn't think about it

drstratton · Nov 4, 2015

domination2580 said:
Also did a decent number to the carpet. My dad is not happy and he says there's not going to be another fish tank...which ticks me off because this doesn't happen often and it was an accident that couldn't have been helped.

I don't know your dad, but being a parent, this probably really scared him! This accident could have been much worse!

domination2580 said:
Well at first I did then got excited when I acquired a reef keeper and didn't think about it

Don't forget again, okay! :)

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

If my dad will even let me have another tank

drstratton · Nov 4, 2015

domination2580 said:
If my dad will even let me have another tank

Hopefully he will, in time!

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

I don't see it....he is a jerk...like I said before he didn't care about me, he was worried about the house.

jetmaker · Nov 4, 2015

They have the inline heaters they say they don't do that

Reefhunter007 · Nov 4, 2015

domination2580 said:
Well tonight when trying to work on overflow. I had to place an old heater in the tank to maintain temp. Well just so happens that the heater had a short. Went to grab something out of the tank and ended up getting electrocuted, making me grip the tank and couldn't let go. Causing me to have the tank tip over on me. Broke the tank.

What can I do to make sure this doesn't happen again....if my dad let's me have another tank

Sorry for your loss hope you heal fast "if you need any help with restocking your tank I would gladly contribute!

domination2580 · Nov 4, 2015

Thank you very much sir. I had a friend who is housing my fish and coral I could scramble up before taking off to urgent care...so far I lost my royal gramma, my small clown isn't doing to hot and one of my green mandarins isn't doing good either. I hope my coral make it