flood stories

[Canadian Man]

Back in the very early days of my tank (and my reefing knowledge) I was running a fluval 404 on my 90g tank. At this point I had no sump. I was doing my monthly fluval mantainence, unplugged the fluval, disconnected the quick connect and took the filter to the sink to clean the media and inpeller. Once the fluval was clean I proceeded to put it back on line. I put the filter in place put the quick connect back on and plugged it in to the power outlet. I had to use the fancy gadget to prime the fluval a little and once it was running I noticed there was a little bit of a leak comming from the quick connect area. I looked like the compressiong fittings for the hose. I got my pliers and began tightnening the hose fittings and crack that's when the fitting broke.........Yes the plasic it self broke!

So the output fitting (the return back to the tank) was the one that broke so I had to flows to deal with. One was the output of the filter shooting everywhere and Two was the syphon created by the filters tube hanging over the tank.

So I unplugged the fluval and that stopped the one source and the other one I tried to plug with my hand witch of course worked but being under the stand and home alone I had no way of getting the hose out of the tank. I had to let it spill some more and then I just ripped the hose out of the tank.

So once that was all dont I spilled about 4" of water out of my 90g tank all over the floor and into the basement!

that's my worst spill story