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A few notes (and to expand on what Randy has already stated):

1) In an ideal world, you would have a GFCI per device. In that way a single faulting device or nuisance trip has no effect on any other piece of equipment.

2) While AFCI circuit breakers have come a long way, they are extremely prone to nuisance tripping when used with motor or ballast loads. Using them on your aquarium will certainly buy you some safety but will put hte aquarium at a fairly hifh risk. It may be better to follow best practice with ragard to protecting your electrical plugs and receptacles. Use drip loops. Plug plastic child protectors into unused receptacle locations (to precent salt creep). Use plastic bubble covers. Use METAL high quality plug strips with SIMPLEX receptacles and stay away from the molded plastic plug strips. Better yet, build your own GFCI power snakes with bubble covers to distribute power. In this way you get a GFCI per device or two, a high quality receptacle, a metal box and a bubble cover.

3) If you use a ground probe YOU MUST have gfci protection on ALL devices in or near the aquarium. If you do not, then you are creating a danger that DID NOT exist without the ground probe.

100% +1 on the wiring practices mentioned above. But I do disagree that the modern AFCI is "extremely prone to nuisance tripping". While this may have been the case when they were first introduced, this is not the case nowadays. I don't think they put your aquarium any more at risk then the power company or mother nature does with power outages. Today's aquarium pumps run pretty damn clean, and couple that with electronic ballasts that most aquarist use and this really is not a problem. I will take the added safety over the small added risk any day. I have been running an AFCI's on my aquarium equipment for 4 years + along with a few others I know of. I have not had one nuisance trip in that time. In any case, I was just offering up how I go about setting up power for a aquarium system. Is a AFCI an absolute must? Nope, but I would definitely say YES to GFCI's and some common sense on the wiring.

Bean,100% +1 on the wiring practices mentioned above. But I do disagree that the modern AFCI is "extremely prone to nuisance tripping". While this may have been the case when they were first introduced, this is not the case nowadays. I don't think they put your aquarium any more at risk then the power company or mother nature does with power outages. Today's aquarium pumps run pretty damn clean, and couple that with electronic ballasts that most aquarist use and this really is not a problem. I will take the added safety over the small added risk any day. I have been running an AFCI's on my aquarium equipment for 4 years + along with a few others I know of. I have not had one nuisance trip in that time. In any case, I was just offering up how I go about setting up power for a aquarium system. Is a AFCI an absolute must? Nope, but I would definitely say YES to GFCI's and some common sense on the wiring.

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