My tank randomly crashed a while back and I just got rid of all of it except a power head, filter, and the lights. Well, I got the itch again and started a new reef aquarium from scratch. Then, a few months into it, the fish randomly got weird and one died. Then, they were all randomly fine again. Eventually I noticed that my power head wasn't running and when I went to remove it the wire fell off. The power wire was broken, corroded and disconnected. I am guessing that it was leaking electricity into the water - not enough to shock me but enough to make it hard for the fish to swim. I trashed it, bought a new brand name power head, and the fish have been fine.
Would a GFCI have tripped in this situation? My breakers are AHCI and they clearly didn't do anything helpful.
Would a GFCI have tripped in this situation? My breakers are AHCI and they clearly didn't do anything helpful.
(if the thing was wired correctly)
