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Light shock from bulb replacement?

April 26, 2017bulb light replacement shock

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Light shock from bulb replacement?

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Hello Crew, I have a 75 gallon tank with one toadstool leather coral and two clownfish. Last month, I replaced four 65-watt power compact bulbs and charcoal on the following schedule: 7/2/05 13 month old 50/50 bulb replaced 7/4/05 10.7 month old 50/50 bulb replaced 7/6/05 new charcoal in 7/15/05 13.25 month old 10K bulb replaced 7/21/05 12.7 month old 10K bulb replaced I went on vacation 7/24-8/4. While on vacation, my daily fish caretaker called to say the power was out (GFCI had tripped). Power was restored, but it could have been out for as much as 24 hours. There was no canister filter or wet-dry filter to go bad with a power loss. And the fish had no problem. I’m not sure about the leather coral. On returning from vacation, the coralline algae appeared mostly gone, except less so in areas sheltered from the light. And it seemed like the macroalgae was largely gone too. The rocks looked mostly light brown. My son says t