Uhhh, is this bad?

[fkshiu]

[andrewsk]

Very bad. Did you have a leak?

[scuglass]

Not bad if you need an excuse to go bigger :-P

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Tank busted on Sunday. Ouch!

[fishoholic]

Yikes!

[fkshiu]

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:


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?

[Rippin]

Ouch! Sorry to hear about that. It's good that you had the foresight to build the stand as you did just in case of something like this.

[Doug]

Wholley mackeral. How did it crack like that? I agree, good thing it was designed to hold water. Glad you saved the stock. I had to laugh at the thought of pj,s and everything going into the dam. But then, most of us have been there.

Is the tank framed and is the foam under the glass only or does the frame sit on the foam? Gives me the heebie-jeebies when looking at something like that and what can happen to our glass boxes full of water. I always used foam under my frameless tanks but not under a framed, as my current All-Glass.

[scsi]

As far as Wives (or husbands, for that matter) being understanding, a large degree of that dends on when the tank incident happened in relationship to the initial purchase.
I know for me after having spent... I dunno how many thousands of dollars
over the last 6 weeks, had that happened to me right now..... I'd be on the street

[cav~firez22]

Man thats scarry, im also interested on what caused that? just the weight of the rocks? or did the tumble a bit and on smack the bottom...

sorry for your loss. but atleast you saved the fish.