EMERGENCY in NBBY! 300G leaking!!!
 

Please help!
Dont know what to do.
Went to clean a noisy pump and saw water damage on stand.
Tank is leaking somewhere and is going through floor to basement!

Call if you can help!
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Shao

Oh no! Wish I could offer help but hardware is not my strong point. Hope you’re getting things under control.

Yes under control thanks.
Was wanting to rework my tank anyhow. Lol.

Couldnt have done it without assistance from Rich.
He was a tremendous help.

But yeah, a long way to go.

Yeah my brain got frazzled when i realized what was happening.

Oh man, sorry to hear.

I know the feeling. A month ago I was sitting in my living room and heard an odd cracking noise and then rushing water....

Turned out that my overflow had cracked.

I basically froze and was lucky that my fiance was the one to jump into action and turn off the return pump and get some buckets.

What a terrible experience.

Well now thats its over, time to move forward.
I was already thinking of reworking the aquascape, flow, lighting and inhabitants lol so time to set that in motion! (Spurred on by having challenges with sps and my lights being too heavy for my liking to do maintenance; i've had some back surgeries.)

Just meed to tend to the survivors!

Oh yeah, looking at Apex, leak started the night before.
Salinity started dropping off as per records.

Was leaking from bottom of tank somewhere, so with that in mind, this could have been a much much worse scenario.

Yeah, sounds like it could have been a huge disaster. If it was leaking from the bottom, are you still able to use the tank??

I estimate that when my overflow cracked, it ended up leaking about 10-15 gallons on the floor before it could be stopped. The damage from 10-15 gallons scares me. I had to redo about 50 SQ feet of floor as well as replace baseboard and some drywall. I can't imagine what 150G would do if my tank had drained :( Worst part is, so far insurance will not even consider it, they claim that the plumbing being used for an aquarium basically voids any insurance I had for the actual aquarium. I think they are basically saying what I did with a sump, plumbing, ect. was not in the scope of a 'normal' aquarium and the risks involved.

Good luck with rethinking everything.

So how did you save the livestock....
 

How did you fix the leak;.was it on the 300 gallon tank or sump. What was the casualties...funny, J&L Aquatics’s store display 100 gallon cube tank recently , suddenly burst from a bottom seam but luckily it was during store hours and livestock was saved.We shoUld all have contingency plans for what if scenario if ones tank burst or leaks.

Yeah from all that ive read getting insurance for an aquarium is a convoluted process. Havent really looked into it in depth myself.

No repairing it. Would appear to possibly be cracked on bottom pane. Cant see it as the bottom of tank has an acrylic false bottom siliconed on it.

No major casualties so far.

Lucky it didnt just burst, lucky i noticed it when i did, as much of a hassle it was and even with the damage to walls etc, it could have been way more disastrous.

Yes, a contingency plan in place is something i would recommend. I wss not even close to being prepared to handle a major tank issue.

Shao, how long has that tank been in that position?
I would think that for a glass pane to crack, something must have shifted. Albeit slowly.
The stand?
Or maybe a slight shift in the floor, then the stand accommodating that.
IMHO
I am only asking cause when you setup the replacement, you should think about why this happened.
I am glad you caught it in time, water on the floor is never good.

My experience with insurance was like this...I asked which insurance would cover damage from an aquarium and they told me I was covered with the insurance I have. I asked if they needed to know water volume, ect. and they said no. Then once the leak happened and I put in a claim, they said something along the lines of...having plumbing that is meant for other applications in your aquarium is outside the normal scope of owning an aquarium and was a risk that they cannot insure. I asked if I had bought an aquarium with plumbing from the manufacturer (ie. Red Sea systems) if it would be covered and they answered 'probably'.

Well, anyways, I was lucky not to kill everything but I realized after that is was crazy to have so much water in my home with no back up plan if anything were to go wrong.

So you are going to have to replace your beautiful tank? Was it under warranty? Such a bummer, hope things go as smoothly as can be expected under the circumstances.

Tank has been in place for right about 2 years.
Stand was built purposely for it by a finishing carpenter during house renovations.

Your scenario is a definite possiblity. There are a number of factors in this particular failure scenario.

Yes, very lucky i caught it when i did or it would have been exponetially worse for not only my tank inhabitants but for my house!!!! By apex salinity graph it had started leaking for not quite a day. If i had gone to bed (would've been in a couple hours) without checking i would have woke up to a dry reef and over 300G of salt water on new hardwood. The stand was built into the house permanently so the leak seped down the side of the stand, whixh is basically just a wall. The water then ran down between the floor joists and engineered beams across the room floor/lbsmt ceiling, then running down the side wall.

Better that then sitting on my hardwood lol.:mrgreen::lol:

I have been racking my brain in what measures i need to prevent this from happening again and how to have a contingency planbin place should it happen again lol. Knock on wood.

Yes tank will be replaced. Excited for a new reef. But lots of things to happen before that can begin. Bummer i lose out 2 years of what i call "coasting"; when the reef is established, stable, stocked and growing. You can do minimal work and its coming into its best as tbings are starting to fill in and have that grown in look. Oh well, i get a do over!

Pretty much all sps dead. But i was struggling keeping them happy anyways so im not too surprised with that.

Zoas, shrooms, nems and the rest are doing great tho!

But i just lost my gold hammer and my austrialian gold torch!!!
Now that was a bit of a kick in the @$$

Sorry to hear about the sps. sometimes they come back from seemingly the dead

Man, sorry to hear about your losses:sad:
If you ever need a spot to park your coral for a while, I’m open to helping if that’s ever an option. Not sure how long before you can set up new tank?

That sucks man. So sorry to hear that.

Is that a custom tank? Maker/Brand?

Hey everyone thanks for the offers, i'm good.
Sad that i lost some favorite pieces but all said in done things are under control.

It was a custom tank and i'm hashing out details on a replacement.
I'm not wanting to throw shade on anyone as there were a couple factors that may have contributed to the failure.

Yes i want my new system up asap, but i'm willing to take my time to ensure there are no future issues. So rehashing the set up is priority one.