Electricity in tank

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With the problem with electricity in the tank, even with a ground probe could this be changing the water chemistry?
The reason why I am asking is I have to add a declorinator daily as a drip to keep the corals alive. I have another pump ordered. Until then I have to keep the drip going. When I remove the electricity will the water chemistry become normal?
 
clorine in tank

The water parameters are

1.024 ppm salinity
< . 05 phosphates
0 nitrates
0 nitrite
10 KH
RO/DI water
90 gal tank, no subsrtate, 100 lbs live rock, ehiem calcium reactor, ETS protien skimmer. I have 4, 96 watt power compacts for lighting. I really need some help cause the declorinator drip is a pain and shouldn't be used. If I don't use the drip I get a clorine reading in 5 days.
I am using just a declorinator as a declorinator drip. If I don't use it daily the fish will die first then the corals stay closed. Soon as I put the declorinator in they start opening up.
 
how do you know there is any electrical leak in your tank anyways?
 
electricity

I checked it with a volt meter. I put the positive lead in the water and the negetive on the ground on the power strip. I started unpluging items one by one and found it to be the external sump pump. When I unpluged it the voltage went to a neg reading.
 
Hmm talking to a few other electrical engineers here kinda stumped on how electrical current in water is causing cholrine to become present.

First there shouldn't be that much free chlorine in the air and second it would take quite a bit of electricity to change the chemistry of water in such a way that a free chlorine would bind to anything in water. And even then if it did bind it would be some weird Sodium diChloride ???? This is definetly beyond me but I have a few better minds looking at it for you.

Anyone else?
 
the only possible way to do that would be converting the salt to chlorine. Which means the salinity would be changing quite rapidly also.


birdman, if thats the case you need to replace that sump pump. Thats a very dangerous hazard. Potentially fatal to you and everything in your aquarium. The grounding plug is just creating a complete circuit. But if you stick your hand in the tank, the electricity might prefer you over the grounding probe....
 
not really, dont forget our bodies are made up of mostly salt water...
 
True still more resistive than a good earth ground. Especially through shoes, slab .... We use grouding leads when working on high voltages i.e. 10K - 100K so that the platform we are working on grounds out allowing us to walk on it and touch the actual live wires. Kinda liker birds
 
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