Ed Hahn
Life is A Highway...
last week I awoke to find one of my Rios shooting water out of the tank. I lost a considerable amount of water. I grabbed my wooden dowel with a hook to pull power plug from the wall to prevent being shocked. I own a few pieces of carpet cleaning equipment. I put them to use as quickley as possible. I took a day off work to solve this issue. I removed water daily after that. I was concerned with a leak coming from somewhere else. I checked all my plumbing. I tore each piece of plumbing apart to find out or make sure it did not leak. I was totally baffled. I removed my sump from my tank and checked it for leaks. I looked over my prefilter. I thought that is the culprit. I also took it completely off. I was running my system with just powerheads.
I put a line on the outside of my tank to monitor water volume.
I did the same with my sump.
I still had water coming from under the tank. I was completely horrified. I have a lot of life inside my tank. My wife knew how much I loved my tank. We decided to tear it down last night at 8pm.
I put all my coral in two Rubber Maid trash cans. I removed the water from tank into trash cans. I was very upset. I was like a bomb waiting to explode. I have some pretty large pieces of live rock. I had spent time being picking looking for shelfs with holes. In the process my 1/2 Sea Swirl feel into the water. It no longer works. I held my breath as I kept removing coral trying to stack it so it would not break in trash cans. I placed heaters in each trash can with powerheads. I had help from Father in law removing tank to front lawn. My wife was crying, My Mother in Law was crying. I was crying on the inside not wanting to let it show.
I cleaned my tank. I filled my tank with water. I let it sit in my garage.
I removed my Tank stand to find about 5 gallons of water under it. My wife and I had bought a rubber place mat under the tank to prevent damage to carpet and flooring. If not for the rubber place mat I would have had a lot of water damage. I used my carpet machines to suck up water from outside the matt.
I was now a little bit more comfortable. I had found the source of water leak. It was from the first issue, the power head shooting water from tank. My tank sits in my garage. My stand on bricks. My fish and coral and invertebrates in two trash cans.
The plan is to move my tank into the den by the PC. I will try to do this as fast as possible. Today I have to buy a new PC desk. Our other desk is way to large. Film at 11. Any of you moving your tank I would highly suggest a clear floor matting. It could have been a lot worse.
I put a line on the outside of my tank to monitor water volume.
I did the same with my sump.
I still had water coming from under the tank. I was completely horrified. I have a lot of life inside my tank. My wife knew how much I loved my tank. We decided to tear it down last night at 8pm.I put all my coral in two Rubber Maid trash cans. I removed the water from tank into trash cans. I was very upset. I was like a bomb waiting to explode. I have some pretty large pieces of live rock. I had spent time being picking looking for shelfs with holes. In the process my 1/2 Sea Swirl feel into the water. It no longer works. I held my breath as I kept removing coral trying to stack it so it would not break in trash cans. I placed heaters in each trash can with powerheads. I had help from Father in law removing tank to front lawn. My wife was crying, My Mother in Law was crying. I was crying on the inside not wanting to let it show.
I cleaned my tank. I filled my tank with water. I let it sit in my garage.
I removed my Tank stand to find about 5 gallons of water under it. My wife and I had bought a rubber place mat under the tank to prevent damage to carpet and flooring. If not for the rubber place mat I would have had a lot of water damage. I used my carpet machines to suck up water from outside the matt.
I was now a little bit more comfortable. I had found the source of water leak. It was from the first issue, the power head shooting water from tank. My tank sits in my garage. My stand on bricks. My fish and coral and invertebrates in two trash cans.
The plan is to move my tank into the den by the PC. I will try to do this as fast as possible. Today I have to buy a new PC desk. Our other desk is way to large. Film at 11. Any of you moving your tank I would highly suggest a clear floor matting. It could have been a lot worse.
