A Warning To Others

[fish mad]

Im sure noone has done this but be warned. To save on plug sockets i wired both my heaters up to one of those cable tidy thingies. Stupid i hear you say. Why? Well because the beauty of having 2 heaters is youve got a back up right?
No not me . Yesterday i thought the temp had dropped a little but then the fire wasnt on in the room and it was just slightly.Today im off sick and just glanced over to the tank and oh my god oh my god it had dropped alot.
Panic set in my poor fishes . Grabbed the spare chucked it in while suffering with the flue.
To cut a long story short temp is on the up. It was the fuse.
So now everything has its own plug lol

 

[@ombomb]

If I'm being honest the biggest problem my fish have with their heater is me forgetting to turn i ton after water changes. Having said that I've never noticed any problems even when it's been off for over a week!

Lucky I have a warm flat I suppose

 

[Nim]

I Live in a warm flat as well and infact I have one of the tanks without a heater and it still maintains temperature at 24C (we have a fan in every room ) courtsey the heating of the ones living below

A More dangerous situation: An extension cord plugged into another extension cord (the main one with switches for every socket).. one day asked my other half to turn off the spare extra light (That I switch on sometimes to encourage flowering) from its ballast ... Not a very difficult thing eh!... she switched off the switch that was connecting the second extension cord from the main one er... hmmm... my freakin Filter was also on the same cable .. woke up next day morning to a very quiet tank... luckily did not even have a mini cycle after switchig the filter back on but thats probably due to the juwel filter (as a secondary one) still running all the time.

Now I do the light myself.. main ones are on a timer though.. its just the halides and the extra fluoro that needs manual intervention.

Nim

 

[@ombomb]

I know what you mean about the extension cables, which ever idiot wired my lounge put in 4 plug sockets! 4!!!!

 

[Nim]

4 I have 3 and its for a Lounge + Diner. The socket that runs my Juwel 240 is also having a floor lamp, TV, Sky, Mediacentre PC and all AV stuff on it. The second socket runs another tank and a floor lamp and a front projector.. 3rd one runs the broadband, printer, phones and er.. couple of more things that I cant recall... I live on extension cables and a very Anti health & Saftey enviornment

 

[trace1]

I know what you mean about the extension cables, which ever idiot wired my lounge put in 4 plug sockets! 4!!!!

all i can say is your lucky, i only have 2 single 1s in my front room.

 

[steelhealr]

It's a common booboo...you unplug everything to do your water change, then, replug the filter to get things going and then remember the next day that you forgot to replug the filter as you stroll by the tank and notice the LCD thermometer strip reading 70 degrees.

Overall, many people ignore the electrical aspect of keeping an aquarium safe and it is one of the simplest things (putting in a GFCI plug) to prevent shock and/or fire. SH

 

[Tolak]

I strongly secong the gfi outlet or strip. You can get gfi circut breakers, protects everything. Electricity & water are a bad mix, I'm surprised people in the aquatics hobby don't get zapped more often.

 

[Jules H-T]

I'm terrible. I have 4 plugs running:

TV, VCR, DVD, PS2, PC, Monitor, router, modem, phone charger, lamp, laptop, two tank strip lights, two filters, a powerhead, two air pumps, and two heaters.

Nothing gets switched off for a water change, unless it's a 50% which is infrequent.

 

[Soaup]

If I'm being honest the biggest problem my fish have with their heater is me forgetting to turn i ton after water changes. Having said that I've never noticed any problems even when it's been off for over a week!

Lucky I have a warm flat I suppose

I have that same problem.. Stupid heaters lol faulty humans..