| fkshiu |
08-21-2007 05:49 PM |
Yup, the very last thing you want to be doing at 6AM on a Sunday morning is dealing with a 120 gallon tank that is BLEEDING water from apparently no where.
This is what the tank used to look like:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...u/IMG_5261.jpg
By the time I found out, all 6 gallons or so that was left in the FW resevoir had been pumped out by the osmolator and the return chamber was down about 3 gallons. So I'm guessing 9 gallons or so found freedom.
Fortunately, the bottom of my stand is sealed with a waterproofing membrane so that caught much of the water. But it was full and the water had overflowed onto the laminate.
I had a choice of whether to safe the livestock or save the floors. I chose the livestock like any good reefer :)
So after creating makeshift dam around the tank with every available towel or piece of cloth I could find (including my pajamas) I set about draining the tank and moving everything to the sump, a 10 gallon and 25 gallon. Everybody's accounted for except for the abalone (he's probably in the big rubbermaid tub where I threw all the LR into).
I now know why SPS nanos are rare, I'm already having trouble maintaining water quality in the 10 gallon where all the SPS/clams are being housed. For light over the 10 gallon I'm using the 250w HQI with lumenmax reflector I was planning on setting up that very day!
My 5" hippo is doing OK for now in the 25 gallon.
The wife's been very understanding. She'd be a whole lot less understanding I hadn't had foam under the tank and the entire bottom pane had fallen out.
Anyone got a 6'x2' footprint tank FS? |
