anther wonderful monday

[liontammer]

ok i woke up at 5 am to my 125 with a broker seal. 90g of water in my living room on the carpet. know i have a 17"jar and a 10" dat in my pond as well as my burcher in my bathtub with the rock for the tank. this is going to have to do for the next three days till i can get my 150 set up for them and my carpets dryed. i swear who ever put this curse on mondays i wish you would please take it away. im so hopeing i dont lose any fish from this

 

[liontammer]

o and i forgot to mention this tank was set up as full bio filter the only thing i had on this tank were water pushers and know im going to need to put filters on it 2 years of bio build up down the crapper

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Having had a tank dump onto a carpet in the past I no longer put a tank on carpet. It is a big problem in addition to the problems of a leaking tank. The water will find a way out in sufficent quanity to do damage at some point.
I removed a section of wall to wall carpet from the area of my current tanks and put down tiles in the area. I created a barrier around the area with plastic quarter round and hopefully sealed it off with silicone. It has yet to be seriously tested. I also drilled a hole to the basement in the hope that any leaks will be slow enough for the water to drain thru and not get to the carpet. So far only small spills, but enough to cause problems as the moisture would have been trapped under the carpet had it still been in place.
Good luck

 

[Mount_Prion]

ok i woke up at 5 am to my 125 with a broker seal. 90g of water in my living room on the carpet. know i have a 17"jar and a 10" dat in my pond as well as my burcher in my bathtub with the rock for the tank. this is going to have to do for the next three days till i can get my 150 set up for them and my carpets dryed. i swear who ever put this curse on mondays i wish you would please take it away. im so hopeing i dont lose any fish from this

Oy. So no showering for the next 3 days? I don't envy the people near you, haha.

Sorry for this, that stinks.

 

[liontammer]

Oy. So no showering for the next 3 days? I don't envy the people near you, haha.

Sorry for this, that stinks.

lol that would have been the case but i am lucky enuf that i have a sepret stand up shower i got the ac running to get the moister out of the air and fan on the carpet so every thing is drying up nicely. still have to move my 45 hex so that the area under that tank drys re sealing the 150 breeder i just picked up and going to be setting that up wensday i hope. but i just hope that the bio filt i have bilt up in the gravel and drift wood will stay alive and the fish are all good till then the two in the 150 pond should be fine it is the one in the bath tube that im worried about. i know it was going to happen i just kept telling myself it was all good lol the tank was an old 125 build before they yoused center braces and my stupidity never redid the corners before setting it up. it is just a huge down set and cost me 300$ for a new tank because resealing a tank is ez as hell but when the seams fall and leak the only way to reseal it is by cutting out the glass (well to do it properly )

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Many years ago I worked for a while for a carpet business. While I may not have it just right I do seem to recall that it was very difficult to dry out soaked carpet. The moisture gets trapped under the carpet pad and begins to grow mold fairly quickly from the organic material that naturally gets into it and from the stuff in the tank water. A strong vaccum such as used by clean up crews may help. You may want to check on methods currently used to be more sure.
The best method that I knew of is to pull the carpet back and replace the pad underneath. The carpet itself can be salvaged if it is not stained.
That mold is nasty stuff. When I worked for the carpet people we replaced a lot of carpet after a flood. There was moisture under the pads for a long time after many thought all was dry.
Good luck