OrionGirl
04-21-2003, 9:07 AM
So yesterday was tank maintenance day. Boyfriend decides to pull all the powerheads and pumps and give them a complete cleaning, check for worn parts, ect. Everything looks good, puts the powerheads back in, and adds one to the FO system to create more current across the front of the tank.
As so often happens, the powerheads don't always stay attached, so he spends a few hours fiddling with them and then decides to go out for a cruise on his bike. I stay at home, and am fiddling around on the computer, about 6 feet away from his tanks, with my back to the tanks. I hear a thunk, and a slight splash. Turn around, can't see anything unusual, so put it down to the trigger being rambunctious.
Sometime later, I get up to check the laundry, and notice that one of the powerheads has fallen off again, so decide to fix it. Flip open the canopy, and discover that somehow, the cord for the powerhead got caught on the light bulb. They are held on by clips, and the powerhead falling has pulled the bulb completely out of both clips, and it is now HANGING, half submerged IN THE WATER.
I freak. Try to locate my boyfriend, he's still out riding. Decide to turn off the ballast (there are 2 for the setup, of course I turned the wrong one off first) and wait for his return--let him fix it!
He gets home about 10 minutes later, I tell him what happened. He took the bulb and end caps off, checked everything. No water inside the end caps, just around the outside.
We've decided that the water proof end caps by IceCap are awesome!
As so often happens, the powerheads don't always stay attached, so he spends a few hours fiddling with them and then decides to go out for a cruise on his bike. I stay at home, and am fiddling around on the computer, about 6 feet away from his tanks, with my back to the tanks. I hear a thunk, and a slight splash. Turn around, can't see anything unusual, so put it down to the trigger being rambunctious.
Sometime later, I get up to check the laundry, and notice that one of the powerheads has fallen off again, so decide to fix it. Flip open the canopy, and discover that somehow, the cord for the powerhead got caught on the light bulb. They are held on by clips, and the powerhead falling has pulled the bulb completely out of both clips, and it is now HANGING, half submerged IN THE WATER.
I freak. Try to locate my boyfriend, he's still out riding. Decide to turn off the ballast (there are 2 for the setup, of course I turned the wrong one off first) and wait for his return--let him fix it!
He gets home about 10 minutes later, I tell him what happened. He took the bulb and end caps off, checked everything. No water inside the end caps, just around the outside.
We've decided that the water proof end caps by IceCap are awesome!