glass breaking experience!!!!!

[blackangler]

:beatdown:

well i finaly hooked up my 400 watt mh last night, and well i thought it was working out good, untill the glass under it exploded,

i have gone and bought "heat resistent" glass not but when it happend the glass it was stiiting on was red.

so a word of advice, make sure your mh are properly postiond from the glass or you will have a problem

[Zack]

:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: yikes man!!!

[paulsreef]

oh man... how much ended up in the tank? Did it break the bulb? :cry:

[blackangler]

no the blub and everthing alse is ok but i got a lot of glass in the tank. which took forever to get out. but that just shows you to be careful.

[jman785]

:eek2:
Be careful now when digging in your tank, there have got to be some shards and little pieces hidden by reflection and waters depth perception

- Jared

[Zack]

don't want a tank full of blood now just because you cut yourself on glass :shock:

[Telco Guy]

I second that on the glass shards in the tank. They can be very hard to see in the water. I had a similar thing happed when I first set up my current tank. I had it set up and wanted to put the LR in that I had been cycling in a separate tub, but I felt that the water temp was too low in the tank. I decided to try to help heat the water by placing a Halogen spot light above the tank. I know, I know, what was I thinking!? Anyway, the glass on top of the tank broke about 30 minutes after I set up the light.

So, how far above the glass was your MH light?

[blackangler]

less than an inch

[Telco Guy]

You have raised the MH up now I hope. I've always heard that 8 inches in the minimum distance above the water that a MH light should be placed.

[winnona15]

to get more class out u could turn off the lights and shine a flash light in there and when ever u see a rflection ... GLASS!!

[jman785]

blackangler,

So the bulb glass broke, or the 'uv filter' glass broke?

[dono]

dooooooode... that's crazy!

[Condiman]

I know the feelin of breaking glass. I work in a glass factory and man you should see the glass breakage there. Only benifit is that I can get any amount of glass I need for cheep. Anyways be careful. :?

[cich1]

to get more class out u could turn off the lights and shine a flash light in there and when ever u see a rflection ... GLASS!!
good idea and worth a try