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08-21-2007, 08:38 AM
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Tank busted on Sunday. Ouch!
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08-21-2007, 01:15 PM
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Yikes!
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08-21-2007, 05:49 PM
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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?
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08-21-2007, 05:56 PM
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Ouch! I'm glad your wife is so understanding.
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08-21-2007, 06:00 PM
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Wow, thats brutal
Hope you can find a new tank quickly!
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08-21-2007, 06:19 PM
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OH man. That's so uncool
 Good luck finding a tank.
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