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Thread: DIY grounding for aquarium equipment

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    Alright, here goes..I have a blue tub with gold fish which i keep outside my flat, while i was doing some regular cleaning, I felt that there was some minor electric shock which bites.

    I took out my multimeter and tested that there were some current leak in the water, as we know, most of our pumps comes with only 2 pin plug which do not have any grounding.

    What it did next was I bend a piece of stainless steel wire (where i can attach it to the side of my tube submerge in the water), connect 1 end to some length of electrical wire using heat shrink, the other end of the wire to the Ground of the 3 pin power plug, after i plug in to the wall socket, the leaks are gone

    I will try to take some picture and post here later, you can use steel for this application but not copper as its poisonous to our pet, I am not too sure about aluminum but do know that some use titanium for their marine tank.

    This is a very simple project and a good measure if you have pumps in your tank.

    Let me go take some picture now, be back later.

    Cheers,

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    Thanks a lot Razorblade!!! That will really help.

    Cheers,
    I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?

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    Here are some picture :



    Another view :



    To the wall plug:



    Attached to the side of the tub :



    Another angle :



    Happy DIYing

    Cheers,

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