What a day . . . Tank Fiasco!!!

[chwkreefer]

Well, this morning I was awakened by my wife telling me that there was water on our carpets!. It turns out my skimmer went nuts and the drain line somehow didn't work according to my "fail safe" drain method. It always has for the past 2.5 years. (I'm modifying it now) I'd like to know what made my skimmer go that crazy.

I assume my skimmer pumped out between 12 and 25 gallons of water into my house. My tank is an inwall tank and divides my living room from my family room. The water managed to make it's way through the floor and ruined some of my drywall downstairs. I have a silent floor system which is all insulated and has soundboard and resilient metal strips for sound proofing.

So I had a restoration company come out and looks like I'm getting new laminate flooring in the family room. We are not sure how the carpets will turn out yet in the living room. . . and I just had a company come in last Friday to clean all our carpets!

The drywall, soundboard and insulation is all coming off downstairs. Thank goodness for insurance.

Because I have a water replacement system in place, my salinity dropped to 1.018. . . . which I'm slowing bringing back up now. So far only one species of sps shows signs of stress. The rest look fine. Me on the other hand. . . I think I showed some signs of stress too!



Bill

[niloc16]

man i'm really sorry to hear that man. i cant imagine the stress. i guess 'fail safe' is a pretty light term to use. good luck with the repairs

[Tangman]

SORRY ,to hear about your trouble Bill...... water messes are the worst!
If there is any thing that I could do to help just let me know..


Ron/ Tangman
BTW, the frags I got from you are doing great

[GMGQ]

Hey, I just had a skimmer overflow accident recently too! Two days ago, I came home from work, looked at my tank, then tweaked the knob on my CSS120 a twinge. I go to the back computer room for 1-1.5hrs. I go back to the kitchen area where the tank is, and the floor is drenched! Sure enough the 2L skimmate coke bottle was overflowing :S My salinity went down below 1.020 as well, in that short time.

Lucky i was home. I assume you didnt tweak anything before you went to bed though?

[chwkreefer]

Originally Posted by GMGQ

Hey, I just had a skimmer overflow accident recently too! Two days ago, I came home from work, looked at my tank, then tweaked the knob on my CSS120 a twinge. I go to the back computer room for 1-1.5hrs. I go back to the kitchen area where the tank is, and the floor is drenched! Sure enough the 2L skimmate coke bottle was overflowing :S My salinity went down below 1.020 as well, in that short time.

Lucky i was home. I assume you didnt tweak anything before you went to bed though?

I didn't do anything with the skimmer last night. I've never experienced a skimmer blasting that much skimmate before in my 13 years in the hobby.

Bill

[Murminator]

Wow that sucks

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Dang. Good luck with the clean-up.

[chwkreefer]

Originally Posted by Tangman

SORRY ,to hear about your trouble Bill...... water messes are the worst!
If there is any thing that I could do to help just let me know..


Ron/ Tangman
BTW, the frags I got from you are doing great

Thanks for the offer Ron. I think everything is under control. The house should be back to normal in about 7 days!

Bill