Hard wood floors and Reef tanks, not good....(use of a "water on floor" detector)

[BA]

i feel your pain man, i made a stupid mistake a few days ago. i put some medication in my tank which makes my skimmer go crazy and produce really liquidy skimmate like crazy, for some reason i forgot this, and the tube i have from the waste collection cup goes to a big bucket which sits on the floor. needless to say i came home from school and found that my 375 gallon tank and spit A LOT of water onto our hardwood floors, and after we cleaned up and mopped forever, when you walked water came squirting up from where the boards meet, ya NOT good :(

[jc]

You may consider renting a large dehumidifier to help your floor dry. They work great but are hot and noisy.

[MissT]

I know some of the controller software will call your cell if the pH, temperature, etc. get outside a certain range, but I am not sure if there's a setting/add on for water detection... I'll see if I can find some info on that

[mathias]

My tank is on wood also worse thing I could of done .... ounce Im done with this tank or move tile is the only type of floor from now on...

[caferacermike]

I had my tank on hardwood floors for 4 years before we moved. We seemed to constantly splash water, make huge messes doing water changes, etc.. Well after 4 years we were ready for the worst when we moved the tanks, to be honest they were as nice as when we put the tanks down. Not a single water mark, no black ring, nothing. There were several times that I spilled so much water that it would come back out of the seams for 2 days, the edges would even curl up a bit. But by the time we moved you could not tell a tank was ever there. I used to fill up 5g jugs from my RO, I can't remember how many times I'd get a call to meet someone and leave it running for 12 hours or so. Again nothing ever happened to the floors.

I think you'll come out fine.

[SoLiD]

I used to fill up 5g jugs from my RO, I can't remember how many times I'd get a call to meet someone and leave it running for 12 hours or so. Again nothing ever happened to the floors.

That gives me a bit of hope.

His wood floors are high quality so they might be fine, but it also saturated some of his carpet. Now that may be a different story. Only time will tell -David

[DrMark]

Nice of you to come by, David. Good to see someone else with the interest and passion I have in Corpus (dont think there are that many of us). The hard wood will never be perfect, but seems it will be ok in long run without having to be torn up. Likely, will live with it. Have nice rugs that cover up a good part of it also. Carpet will be fine, had to pull up some of it and trash a fair bit of pad. I do appreciate the comments, has been a painful couple of days..........but as in lots of things in this world, could have been much worse.
Mark

[matt]

I would agree with Ace that you might be able to save the floors. One of the main reasons I was able to buy my house was because everyone that looked before me thought the old floors were completely trashed from years of animal "activity". I even found a source for old flooring to replace major sections of the floor. But, I found the right guy to refinish, and he was able to make 'em look great with very little replacement of old wood. I never would have believed it. This is in San Antonio, but I bet there's someone in Corpus who's really good with old floors.

The one thing about this hobby, it seems that no matter what you do or how careful you are, sooner or later you get a really wet floor!