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Do you have to turn off your canister filter when you are making a partial water change? I don't right now, but from several posts it sounds like others are. Why?
mattrox said:If I am really lazy....... I turn off the filter.... then put the outflow into a bucket and turn it back on..... hehehe.
If I am doing a regular change I leave it on.
sdveirs said:mattrox said:If I am really lazy....... I turn off the filter.... then put the outflow into a bucket and turn it back on..... hehehe.
If I am doing a regular change I leave it on.
WOW thats a great idea, I don't see any reason why that can't be done normally. Just pull the output out of the tank and stick it in the bucket.
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Am I the only that's paranoid about putting my arms in water when electrical equipment is running?
catwumman said:Thanks Tony. I will sleep well tonight!!!! HeHe
(I'm still paranoid)
Surge protection and ground fault interruption are two different things. A surge protector is to stop large voltage and amperage spikes going downstream into sensative appliances (tv's, computers). A GFI is to shut the circuit off if the current returning is not the same as the current going in, for example: if the current was going through you instead.I made a huge mess and spilled about a gallon of water all over my surge protector with everything plugged into it. Absolutely nothing happened.
Thank goodness. I have actually had wiring related shocks on 110V 20 amp circuits. That's how I discoverd the fact that two circuits can share the same nuetral? wire, and the unbalanced? load can be, well, unbalancing Ouch. The old construction had been wired goofy, so even turning off the breaker for the light I was working on didn't protect me, since the nuetral wire was common with another circuit that was still on. I had to turn off all the breakers to be sure since I didn't have a meter. Now I test the wires with a meter rather than my fingers! This topic came up once before, and very few people had experienced even minor aquarium related shocks, let alone bigger ones. I"ve never even had a tingle with the aquarium.For me, it was not bad at all.
TomK2 said:Glad you didn't get bitten.
Me too Tom, me too.