EMERGENCY in NBBY! 300G leaking!!!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Oh man, sorry to hear.

I know the feeling. A month ago I was sitting in my living room and heard an odd cracking noise and then rushing water....

Turned out that my overflow had cracked.

I basically froze and was lucky that my fiance was the one to jump into action and turn off the return pump and get some buckets.

What a terrible experience.

[smokinreefer]

Well now thats its over, time to move forward.
I was already thinking of reworking the aquascape, flow, lighting and inhabitants lol so time to set that in motion! (Spurred on by having challenges with sps and my lights being too heavy for my liking to do maintenance; i've had some back surgeries.)

Just meed to tend to the survivors!

[smokinreefer]

Oh yeah, looking at Apex, leak started the night before.
Salinity started dropping off as per records.

Was leaking from bottom of tank somewhere, so with that in mind, this could have been a much much worse scenario.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by smokinreefer

Oh yeah, looking at Apex, leak started the night before.
Salinity started dropping off as per records.

Was leaking from bottom of tank somewhere, so with that in mind, this could have been a much much worse scenario.

Yeah, sounds like it could have been a huge disaster. If it was leaking from the bottom, are you still able to use the tank??

I estimate that when my overflow cracked, it ended up leaking about 10-15 gallons on the floor before it could be stopped. The damage from 10-15 gallons scares me. I had to redo about 50 SQ feet of floor as well as replace baseboard and some drywall. I can't imagine what 150G would do if my tank had drained Worst part is, so far insurance will not even consider it, they claim that the plumbing being used for an aquarium basically voids any insurance I had for the actual aquarium. I think they are basically saying what I did with a sump, plumbing, ect. was not in the scope of a 'normal' aquarium and the risks involved.

Good luck with rethinking everything.

[msjboy]

How did you fix the leak;.was it on the 300 gallon tank or sump. What was the casualties...funny, J&L Aquatics’s store display 100 gallon cube tank recently , suddenly burst from a bottom seam but luckily it was during store hours and livestock was saved.We shoUld all have contingency plans for what if scenario if ones tank burst or leaks.

[smokinreefer]

Yeah from all that ive read getting insurance for an aquarium is a convoluted process. Havent really looked into it in depth myself.

No repairing it. Would appear to possibly be cracked on bottom pane. Cant see it as the bottom of tank has an acrylic false bottom siliconed on it.

No major casualties so far.

Lucky it didnt just burst, lucky i noticed it when i did, as much of a hassle it was and even with the damage to walls etc, it could have been way more disastrous.

Yes, a contingency plan in place is something i would recommend. I wss not even close to being prepared to handle a major tank issue.

[hillegom]

Shao, how long has that tank been in that position?
I would think that for a glass pane to crack, something must have shifted. Albeit slowly.
The stand?
Or maybe a slight shift in the floor, then the stand accommodating that.
IMHO
I am only asking cause when you setup the replacement, you should think about why this happened.
I am glad you caught it in time, water on the floor is never good.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by smokinreefer

Yeah from all that ive read getting insurance for an aquarium is a convoluted process. Havent really looked into it in depth myself.

No repairing it. Would appear to possibly be cracked on bottom pane. Cant see it as the bottom of tank has an acrylic false bottom siliconed on it.

No major casualties so far.

Lucky it didnt just burst, lucky i noticed it when i did, as much of a hassle it was and even with the damage to walls etc, it could have been way more disastrous.

Yes, a contingency plan in place is something i would recommend. I wss not even close to being prepared to handle a major tank issue.

My experience with insurance was like this...I asked which insurance would cover damage from an aquarium and they told me I was covered with the insurance I have. I asked if they needed to know water volume, ect. and they said no. Then once the leak happened and I put in a claim, they said something along the lines of...having plumbing that is meant for other applications in your aquarium is outside the normal scope of owning an aquarium and was a risk that they cannot insure. I asked if I had bought an aquarium with plumbing from the manufacturer (ie. Red Sea systems) if it would be covered and they answered 'probably'.

Well, anyways, I was lucky not to kill everything but I realized after that is was crazy to have so much water in my home with no back up plan if anything were to go wrong.