you never know when having an empty 400 gallon will come in handy

[lastlight]

I'm glad my tank is still in my basement because last night sometime a copper water pipe developed a pinhole leak in it and started flooding the ceiling above my old fish room. You can see the waterproof paint I used holds water too lol. I had used the kids' sled to funnel it into my old tank until I knew wtf was going on. I am very glad the reef was not still around for this. as it would have caught the dirty water into my overflow box undetected for some time.

The random hole in the pipe is not even where a welded connection is. Anyways it leaked about 80 gallons in the past 8 hours into the makeshift plumbing I setup that is feeding the tank. The feed lines for 4 other condos run thru the ceiling this is not even my own water pipe! And I thought the hot water tank blowing up on the other side of the basement last month was bad.

In preparation to cut my tank apart I had removed all of the silicone in the tank not directly between pieces of glass so this tank cannot be trusted to hold 400 gallons. This morning I must bail out this water into a drain so that it can continue to hold until a plumber gets here today!

The joys of post-reefing!