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Hi all,
As the title says my fiance woke up and noticed the aquarium was trickling and smelled smoke. Needless to say, my HOB CPR aquafuge was somehow overflowing and dripping water down the side into the stand of the aquarium.
Now, this normally wouldnt be a huge issue as drip loops were made for all equipment. However, one of my power strips became disconnected from the stand wall and all drip loops to that cord were undone. This caused water drainage to that chord and smoke to come out of power chord. This then caused my ATO to start up, filling with fresh.
IDK all the damage yet (AI Prime HD was plugged into this strip and adaptor is wet now) but am assessing as i clean.
I have new saltwater ready to do a water change, hopefully to balance SG (1.022 now)
What i need help on:
Best way to minimize damage to the light/ any other equipment plugged into this power source
Advice on making sure this doesnt happen in the future
How did the HOB fuge overflow? It has a large outlet, possibly my carbon bag blocking flow?
Needless to say, it was an eventful 2am wake up call, but luckily no full blown fire.
Tank inhabitants seem fine so far.
Attached are some pics
As the title says my fiance woke up and noticed the aquarium was trickling and smelled smoke. Needless to say, my HOB CPR aquafuge was somehow overflowing and dripping water down the side into the stand of the aquarium.
Now, this normally wouldnt be a huge issue as drip loops were made for all equipment. However, one of my power strips became disconnected from the stand wall and all drip loops to that cord were undone. This caused water drainage to that chord and smoke to come out of power chord. This then caused my ATO to start up, filling with fresh.
IDK all the damage yet (AI Prime HD was plugged into this strip and adaptor is wet now) but am assessing as i clean.
I have new saltwater ready to do a water change, hopefully to balance SG (1.022 now)
What i need help on:
Best way to minimize damage to the light/ any other equipment plugged into this power source
Advice on making sure this doesnt happen in the future
How did the HOB fuge overflow? It has a large outlet, possibly my carbon bag blocking flow?
Needless to say, it was an eventful 2am wake up call, but luckily no full blown fire.
Tank inhabitants seem fine so far.
Attached are some pics