HCA: Hermit Crab Association

So I did a deep clean last night. My deep cleans are usually 2-day adventures. That's been causing me to put them off a bit too long lately. So I decided I could probably make it short if I just cleaned everything and put it back together the same way.This saves me the time of digging out and clean all the other potential tank decorations, and then having to stare at the tank for hours trying to design something new. In the end I got it all done in under 5 hours. Amazing!I got one lesson for you all. Don't drip water on your moonglos!I set my lights on the side of the tank during the deep clean. They were still turned on though. During the cleaning, I was holding a wet rag, and some drips of water dripped off of it and landed on one of the bulbs.The bulb immediately exploded on impact and little lightning bolts flung around to boot.Kids, don't try this at home.

Hehehe, I have a little experience with that myself. When my bearded dragons were babies, they were in a smaller enclosure (a 20 gallon at the bottom of a wire rack that we enclosed with mesh) and my mom was spritzing them. A little bit of the mist got up near the heat lamp and, yeah, it blew up. Thankfully, none of the glass got on the beardies. Scary when that happens, isn't it?

Well that is 2 lessons I have learned from you this week JMT.1. No water on moon-glo bulbs2. Crab food when left out will become cat food.any other advice I should remember?

I better be careful when I'm working with any water near my tat! It wouldn't be fun having a 150 watt bulb explode.