Somebody help me PLEASE

jthomas0385

jthomas0385

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Short story: My fish keep dying, water parameters are spot on, even better than good. LFS told me to test for stray voltage. I bought a volt meter, and narrowed it down to my powerheads. Both of my powerheads are about a year old, and they both show movement on my volt meter when plugged in. What do I do? Is is possible that both of my powerheads are bad? I have the Hydro Korilia (spelled way wrong) And there both less than a year old. Somebody please help me, I'm seriously about to give up on the aquarium, and I really don't want to.
 
jackri

jackri

Active Member
Spot on meaning?
Is it possible to get a grounding probe? I'm the wrong person to answer this one as I really don't know much about stray voltage but if the powerheads are causing them can they be taken out and replaced?
 
teresaq

teresaq

Active Member
Tell us a little more about your tank. Size, water readings, filteration, water you use, do you have sand or crushed coral, stock.
look up grounding probe. That may help.
TeresaQ
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by TeresaQ
http:///forum/post/3019935
Tell us a little more about your tank. Size, water readings, filteration, water you use, do you have sand or crushed coral, stock.
look up grounding probe. That may help.
TeresaQ
+1 on the grounding probe....go get one.
 
jthomas0385

jthomas0385

Member
Originally Posted by TeresaQ
http:///forum/post/3019935
Tell us a little more about your tank. Size, water readings, filteration, water you use, do you have sand or crushed coral, stock.
look up grounding probe. That may help.
TeresaQ
I have a 72 gallon bow front, with 100 LBS of live sand, and about 150 LBS of live rock. My filter is a wet/dry canister filter, I have a coralife skimmer, and nova extreme high out put T-5's. My water parameters are as follows:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate:0
Phosphates:0
Salinity: 1.025
I currently have a Kole Tang (who looks albino today for some reason :flame) 2 chromies, 2 clowns. My dwarf angel, and Foxface died with in a week of each other, both seemed perfectly fine one minute, and died the next.
 
d-man

d-man

Member
how much voltage where you reading? did you take a amp reading? it would be nice to know how much wattage was going through your tank. dose this happen offtin? are our power heads doing this all the time?
 
dazed2040

dazed2040

Member
here is a good link about stray voltage. It should answer all your questions.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/186420/checking-for-stray-voltage
 
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