Who has flooded their place?

[Henry]

This should be fun. Just a simple question. Who has flooded their home/apt/dorm/business or whatever? What happened?

I think we've all been guilty of this, just thought we could all get a good laugh out of this.

My first flood was.........yes its coming back to me. I was setting up my 65gal w/the tidepool 2 and S.O.S and I underestimated how much water would continue to flow when I shut off the pump. Man that sump was small. But I guess live and learn.


Henry

[Bbristow]

I have had a small clown fish go into the overflow box and stop up a pipe on a couple of occasions. Not very fun. This sent water out of the top of the aquarium. The last time was when I placed a new pump for extra circulation in the tank. It was so much more water flow that the clown fish got in front of the stream and was sent into the overflow and down the pipe where it hit a union that was connected to the skimmer and then stopped up the pipe. I usually have a mesh screen over the overflow box but I had it off to clean algae and had not put it back on yet (not smart, always put back immediately). I now have another route for the water if that pipe gets plugged. :x :hammer:

[Isis]

At this one pet store I used to work at, I used to flood the floors all the time because of the drain, or forgetting to turn the water off!! :-o That was always fun to clean up!! :?

I also really loved it when I was doing a water change. I would point the return pipe up so the the water would stop going into the sump, but when I would turn the return pump back on, after the tank was filled, I managed to forgot (a few times) to point the pipe back into the water instead of at the wall or straight up in the air. I had my own fountain going!!

[witecap4u]

I had bubble curtains on both ends of my old 55 freshwater tank. My wife decided to unplug the hoses from the airpump for some reason, and just let the hoses hang. I gave her a HUGE lecture about back syphoning and all that, and went an hooked the hoses back up. As I was walking out the door to go to work, I noticed the tank was about half empty. I looked in the stand, and one of the airlines had came off the pump, and back syphoned into the stand and on the floor. Luckily, the tank was on the same wall as the garage, and most of the water ran out into the garage, but I really felt like an *** after that. That night, I got some check valves.....

My other occasion, my fluval started leaking out the top seal, I couldnt figure out, how I was evaporating that much water, untill I walked over to the tank with no shoes on.....

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[RedDragon]

well my first time is when I did not stick the out take spray bar to the glass right and I left to go on-line when I came back to the den my whole floor was flooded more than half the tanks water came out,good thing I have tile :-D

[utmachete]

When I first got into reef keeping I had a glass tank. I set the tank up and then decided to build a refugium. So instead of taking everyones advice and drilling the tank I got a syphon set-up. The first day I started the siphon and the tank was running fine. when I came home that night there was some water on my floor. (siphon broke suprise suprise) I took everything out of my tank and got a hole drilled in it the next day. I didn't have any problems with it after that. I have my 180 gallon tank on carpet now and have had no problems but there is no way it can flood even if the pump is off or the overflow tubes are stopped up. If you design a tank/refugium correctly you can eliminate these problems.

I would be interested in discovering how many glass tanks have leaked because of the silicon degrading with age. I know lots of people that have had well established tanks and then the seals break and there house is flooded. Usually this results in thousands of dollars worth of coral dying. :(

[Jeff Post]

I always build my stands with sides around the bottom that are reasonably water tight so that minor to moderate goofs are contained. I have fortunately not had major goofs yet.

[TexasState]

utmachete and Reddragon is talking about the same exact tank. That tank must've had some bad luck. :lol: