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Morledzep

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where my cichla are
not terrible.. everybody is ok.

but i spent the day at a seminar for holistic and herbal remedies for dogs and humans and was bored out of my skull.. only to come home to the 135 gal tank in my room with 3" of water in it and my fish flopping, and my bedroom floor SOAKED..

luckily i had all 8 of my RO/DI water bottles full and i poured them back in, my MA600 air pump is soaked and won't turn back on, so now i've got both foamies running off of a single MA100..

the fluval 404 that i bought used a couple years ago malfunctioned and sucked all the water out of my tank and distributed it in my bedroom.. just where i always wanted.. :eek:

anyway, i got 40 gallons back in and i've got the bottles filling again and i've got the foam filters working, not at full capacity, but they are working and amazingly i didn't lose a single fish. all of the Cichla Orinocensis, my BGK and my silbersaums are all just fine, other than slightly pissed off.. :ROFL:
 
Wow that sucks.Luckly you dont live on top of someone else right?How or what did you use to clean up the mess?
 
Clean the floor and anything that got wet EXTREMELY well. You do not want mold, and depending on your floor and how much water was on your floor you could be doomed.

I know I've spilled around 20 gallons of water on my carpet floor and I did some serious extreme cleaning and I'm still worried. Luckily sometime soon the carpet is getting torn up and we will see for sure.
 
whoa sorry to hear that, how did the canister cause this? the seal break or did a tube crack? I never knew a canister could cause flood. makes me want to move the intake closer to the top.
 
Bummer. (been there I'm on my third wet/dry vac).

Are you going to put a syphon break hole on the out flow pipe now? :D
 
Sorry to hear what happened , been there .
 
Man, thats a hell of a lot of water it sounds like, glad to hear there wernt any casualties. Im wondering the same thing as Piranha, how did it malfunction? a seal or hose/clip break?
 
gotpiranha?;2065223; said:
Wow that sucks.Luckly you dont live on top of someone else right?How or what did you use to clean up the mess?

i'm on a concrete slab.. and i own my home.. i'm not in danger of pissing anyone else off.. lol. I'm still cleaning.. i'm currently killing wolf3101's shop vac, i don't know where he hid mine and his was right where i could find it. :headbang2
 
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