Skimmer overflowed and leaked on electrical cord!

yea i think i have some lying around the house

what's weird is though, i still have the same amount of water in the collection cup and it's wet on bottom of the outtake side, and i have the electircal cord on the back of my tank underneath that.

 

OMG!!!!

 

so i found another electrical cord, plugged it in so i can run my powerheads and as soon as i plugged in my second powerhead the GFCI*or whatever it is* completly shut off everything. So i reset it, it turned everything back on, except the powerheads, and the powerheads aren't running at all. And the powerheads shouldn't be affected by anything

 

another update, so on the electrical cord, i just flipped the red switch to turn it off and that made the GFCI unit shut off again, now this one shouldn't be affected at all because it wasn't by the tank

 

were any of the plugs wet????

 

so i moved the electrical cord to another place and now i finally have flow in the tank, so i'm just going to let everything sit for now and wait until my dad comes home later tonight to find out what happened

 

Hope you can figure it out so you can prevent it from happening again.

 

the plug that i have the electrical cord plugged into is located on the wall behind my puffer's tank so that area wasn't affected. But the electrical cord that did get wet was sitting vertical becausei had it taped to the back of the tank, and i talked to my dad and he said it should be ok because it was vertical so water should not of been able to leek into the plug, but with it still being wet i got a different plug just to be safe

 

Ack sorry to hear about all that that happened... Hopefully it all gets fixed, Goodluck!

 

Just be careful with your clean-up and please toss that electrical cord