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No I don’t. The only nerve problem I have is keeping my nerves when stupid stuff like this happens. It’s probably my return pump. It went bad and am replacing tonight, actually.

So I found out that most of the electrical readings are due to induction. The problem is, I have no cuts and I did feel it that one time. placing my fingers in salt water does not create that zap feeling. It only happened once and it was in the basement. I’m starting to think there is no leak and it was something else but I can say for sure that it was NOT a cut and it happened when salt water ran out of my DoS hose. I will continue to monitor. At least my probe is now bringing the induction current readings to 0.

Funny you are. That doesnt really help b/c each item adds some AC voltage so it's difficult to locate the actual leaking device. The video shows what I'm seeing

Thanks MODreefer. This video explains why I couldnt find it. (he has an ad in the middle of the vid, you can skip by fast forwarding)

While working on the tank, I felt a slight sting in my finger which I took as an electric charge. So I took a multimeter, stuck the red probe in the water and the black probe in the ground/3rd hole of the outlet. Sure enough, I got 30V on the multimeter!! I systematically turned off each electrical item in the tank but the multimeter never dropped to 0. Removing some pumps seems to drop or even increase the current but I'm assuming that they are acting as poor grounding probes when they are off which may explain why I see current dropping when I restore them... In any case, I'm very confused and worried that I may have a dangerous situation. I have a grounding probe which helps but obviously isn't the correction I'm looking for.

That’s what I did. I had a nice new tank and didn’t want to trade it in for a beat up one. That’s why I went to Bud. After a few years of salt on it, I’m not as married to a container plus it’s pretty much tucked away where it’s difficult to see. Thanks for the info guys. I actually had a scheduled surgery the day after getting the tank swapped. Having the calcium reactor stop working that close to being away from home is stress I didn’t need. Luckily it all worked out!! So again, thank you.

I need to renew my membership then

Thanks Piper! The Stirling location is actually closer then Buds. I'll check it out

It seems that Bars By Bud is now gone! Not only was it a well priced place to refill my CO2 tank but Bud was a really nice guy with whom I always cracked a joke or 2 during my fills. Sucks to see the place go. Anyone know of alternatives?

Zoas are starting to interfere w/my SPS. I would probably love something to get rid of them at this point!

Well said! That reply should be a sticky

They last me a bit longer but yeah they are $$. You can ask spectrapure why you’re burning through them so quickly. I know there are cases where CO2 / cloramines can prematurely cause filters to die. They can trouble shoot. Spectrapure sells a co2 test kit I am about to use myself.

I don’t have a prefilter. It’s the regular spectrapure setup for the maxcap. I have a .5 sediment, carbon, mega maxcap roughing, and enduro on the bottom 4. It’s this: http://spectrapure.com/Mega-MaxCap-90-GPD-RO-DI-System-Manual-Flush-w-Mega-MaxCap-DI I don’t need or use a prefilter.

I have their Maxcap and have just recently replaced the silica buster w/the even more expensive enduro. It seems to be working great but in all honesty I was thinking of switching over to BRS media for my next refill. In your case, I would have to say, if it aint broke, dont fix it. In my case, it's about the $. There are threads out there proclaiming that the spectrapure filters last longer but I would be interested to see if that's actually true in my case.

Boiling water. I actually got rid of 100% of all my aptasia. Took a while but I somehow won the war. I would only see 1 or 2 pop up at any one time. Sometimes in the gavel, but usually in my rocks. I know the rock they came in on so I removed that rock in spite of being a cool cave for my fish. Then I purchased a large plastic syringe. This one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P90N3BY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's HUGE. IF you do this, be VERY VERY careful. You can burn yourself very easily. First, I put some RODI tubing at the end of clear hose which came w/the syringe. It allowed for a more directed stream. Boil water in a container and carefully suck it up into the syringe. Quickly fire it into the target before it cools off. Soon as the hose goes into the water, it begins to cool very rapidly so you want to be careful 1) not to burn yourself, corals, or critters. 2) fire into the anem. The cool thing about this procedure is that it burns it completely off the rock. Sometimes you can even see the little son of a gun's corpse float away an suck it back up in the tube. PLEASE be careful if doing this.