Can You Get Zapped By A Tank?

[Robot_Rooster]

well can you? while a filter an heater are on?

 

[gaz gun man]

I would imagine (hope) the electrics would trip before any serious damage can be done, but if you value your life it dosent take much to turn the electrics off while you're in the tank, you would'nt harm the fish (just remember to turn them back on!)

personally I dont bother turning them off, but then I like to live on the edge

 

[Robot_Rooster]

hehe well i have never heard about a death by fish tank case and if it were the case wouldnt the fish get zapped too?

 

[gaz gun man]

if the heater broke or something, then yes. I'd imagine that would be the last of your worries though if you had your arm in there.

I've never heard of it happening either, but I have heard of one case of a farmer dying from handling a shot rabbit, first one ever recorded in history. So just because it hasnt happened yet (or been documented) dosent mean it cant happen

 

[Mauricia]

hehe well i have never heard about a death by fish tank case and if it were the case wouldnt the fish get zapped too?

Can fish get zapped if they're swimming in the middle of the tank? Because they're not touching the ground, and fish in the ocean don't get electricuted when there's lightning do they?

 

[Robot_Rooster]

maybe standing on a plastic bucket? but i don't think it will happen it will be too silly to have something that dangerous you gotta handle from time to time, and it'll be a pain unplugging as its through a multiplug and through my comp which is normally on at the moment as im looking in an empty tank.

hehe well i have never heard about a death by fish tank case and if it were the case wouldnt the fish get zapped too?

Can fish get zapped if they're swimming in the middle of the tank? Because they're not touching the ground, and fish in the ocean don't get electricuted when there's lightning do they?

fish can get zapped by lightning it stings them, but the ocean is such a large surface area its hardly any effect

 

[Corleone]

The tank is well insulated by glass - there isn't enough electricity going through it to hurt the fish when there's a short, until you ground the system by touching the water yourself.

 

[Robot_Rooster]

Corleone when you put your hand in a tank do you switch the electrics off? seems like you know

 

[waterdrop]

well as boring as my long write-ups can get, I should get a kick out of saying I live on the edge

but I too just stick my arms in there all the time with all the stuff still on and running..

~~waterdrop~~

 

[andywg]

You can get a hit, lights seem especially capable at imparting voltage onto a tank. For this reason SW shark keepers often ground their tanks with titanium rods.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah we got a hit from the SW tank once, can't remember exactly what happened but some sort of crisis and the tank had dumped half it's water over the floor, flooded out some electrics and stuff

 

[Corleone]

Corleone when you put your hand in a tank do you switch the electrics off? seems like you know

Normally, I don't, however, my tank is pretty heavily protected from this sort of thing. I did learn the hard way that my ground fault inturrupt plugs won't kick in when a heater is shorted out until I ground the tank trying to remove it, but at least I didn't kill myself learning that.

 

[Mikaila31]

I like living life on the edge too . So much so that nothing gets turned off when I change the water on my 55gal. I just let the canister run away, makes a lot of noise when the out flow gets above the water. My heater is suppose to "know" if the water gets too low and won't turn on when the water is too low. I don't know if it actually does that but, I've never noticed it cooking the plants that stick to it durning a WC.

I do turn off my lights when I move or handle them, but thats cuz they contain the power of the sun.

I have gotten static shocks from the water though, they always make me jump. But everything shocks me espesially in the winter, I'm like scatic central. So much so that if I am going to touch a door handle that I know will shock me, I pull my sweater sleeve over my hand and make sure I touch it with my palm first. So it doesn't hurt as much. It's like this whole process just to get through a door.

Worse thing I've ever done was plug my filter back in with wet hands, water ran from my hand to the plug and into the outlet. That hurt really really bad and really really scared me, I saw some wired spots, things where kinda spinning and, felt sick to my stomach. And yes, I knew that wasn't a smart move to make when I made it .

 

[Robot_Rooster]

Mikailia your a walking conductor....besides can a hand in the water be a high voltage to say that it can kill you?