UV LIGHT WARNING

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Monolicious

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Hi all just thought I would share something of interest to you all.Over the last Month I had noticed my beautiful red belly pacu swimming irregularly I did all the test and then some only to find all the water parameters were perfect.
I then thought to myself maybe there is something wrong with my UV Light, I had a friend come around who is an electrician, He put his electrode metering device in the tank to find a rather strong current, I then turned off the UV light to find the current had gone. In hind site I was giving my poor fish electro therapy :cry: which he did not approve off, It would appear that on changing the UV globe I twisted the cable witch caused a small leak of electricity due to poor connection, So be warned unscrew the base of the UV not the cap that holds the cable :screwy: You will glad to know he is now swimming around just like a happy Pacu should be, Just thought I'd share my
experience.
 
Glad you found the problem!
 
wow.. thanks for the info man.. i use coralife sterilizers on both my tanks.. i never had a problem but ill keep my eyes out now seeing that your having problems..
 
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