Moon Lighting fell into water last night! Help!

Waarrpped · Jul 20, 2014

I have a moonlight strip mounted in my canopy, I woke up to finding out it fell into the water during the night, I pulled it out immediately. The lights came on finding out that a few

SaltedReefer · Jul 20, 2014

Did it kill anything? If not I'm sure everything will be just fine. I'd assume the light is 12volts?

Waarrpped · Jul 20, 2014

Waarrpped said:
I have a moonlight strip mounted in my canopy, I woke up to finding out it fell into the water during the night, I pulled it out immediately. The lights came on finding out that a few sps frags are bleached out and some colonies do not look so hot yet still have color to them. I know something happened to the tank, whether it was a electrical current running through the water or copper deposits being released into the water, or both. Any ideas where to start?

I added 2 bags of chemipure and am mixing up water to do a 25% water change.

cutterx23 · Jul 20, 2014

I dropped a fan with an exposed motor into my shark tank, slowed down the blades, didn't electrocute anything, and sharks are very sensitive to electric charges (can't even put powerheads in tank), and gave a nice little rainy breeze for a little bit but all was fine. Although now the fan makes a little bit more noise than it used to, but oh well.

Waarrpped · Jul 20, 2014

SaltedReefer said:
Did it kill anything? If not I'm sure everything will be just fine. I'd assume the light is 12volts?

Sorry I don't know what happened the rest of my post so i had to re type it as a reply. Yeah a few sps frags are bleached out, and some colonies lost color, also a lot of my zoos are half opened or not opened at all. Yeah it was on a 12volt plug.

cutterx23 · Jul 20, 2014

LED moonlights I assume? Possibly could have gotten the closest to the sps that are messed up and bleached them while underwater.

Waarrpped · Jul 20, 2014

Sorry, I was in a rush let me give a little more detail, the light is one of those led ribbon lights, one of the ends double side tape came loose and fell off. The end of the light was submerged about 6 inches. All my corals are about 12-18" under the water surface, so I don't think it got to close. Considering I run halides which are a lot more intense. I believe that the copper contacts on the back of the ribbon light released copper traces into the water. Well that's at least my theory. My gcif did not trigger so I don't think any water got into the lighting so that being said I believe no electronic current was running through the water.

I just finished a 25% water change. I will probably do another tomorrow.

saltyhog · Jul 20, 2014

Yeah, GAC or cuprasorb would be the thing to do.

Waarrpped · Jul 20, 2014

Should I run GAC with chemipure?

saltyhog · Jul 20, 2014

Chemipure is largely GAC so you're good. You may have to change it pretty quickly if there is significant copper in the tank. Do you have a copper test kit?