I was doing a water change in my 90 gallon planted tank. And i ended up flooding my middle floor and my basement. heres the story
I have neglected my plants in my 90 gallon tank. i pulled out all the dead plants and sucked out all the ditritus. but since the bottom was clay sand i need to release the water back into the tank slowly. While doing that i started doing my assignments for homework (i am a college student). 4 pages in I get a little thirsty. not knowing my water was still on this entire time which had to been atleast an hour. I open my door and think to myself. F*************************************************************************CK and i looked down my staircase and there it was. my 90 gallon tank overflowing. No one is home as my parents are out for the month and I sprint down (trying to to slip and die) and turn off the sink. I run back upstairs and look for towels in my cloth closet. I pull out every towel i see and just throw it down the stairs. As im letting all the towels absorb the flooding water i run down to the basement. My basement is also flooded with water and about 7 ceiling tiles have fallen through. thankfully none of my big tanks downstairs were affected. But there was still water and a paper mushy mess from the celing tiles. I quickly run back upstairs and start wringing out the towels and putting them back countiunously for 45 minutes. after the water was pretty much gone from my floor i go back down to the basement and see that one of the tiles holding a hvac aluminum vent had fallen and the aluminum vent had undone itself and is now sitting on my floor... I am going to just leave the basement for later as i have an insanely powerful dehumidifyer and dry air from my pumps (moving bed filter pumps) heating the air. Some of my basement walls will need to be repainted. I will purchase some cheap white paint at lowes next time i go.
I have 100% learned my lesson on flooding my house. I am going to make a water changer alarm from youtube asap... I am pissed and have so many things to do for school. and this itself is a problem that needs to be fixed.
I have neglected my plants in my 90 gallon tank. i pulled out all the dead plants and sucked out all the ditritus. but since the bottom was clay sand i need to release the water back into the tank slowly. While doing that i started doing my assignments for homework (i am a college student). 4 pages in I get a little thirsty. not knowing my water was still on this entire time which had to been atleast an hour. I open my door and think to myself. F*************************************************************************CK and i looked down my staircase and there it was. my 90 gallon tank overflowing. No one is home as my parents are out for the month and I sprint down (trying to to slip and die) and turn off the sink. I run back upstairs and look for towels in my cloth closet. I pull out every towel i see and just throw it down the stairs. As im letting all the towels absorb the flooding water i run down to the basement. My basement is also flooded with water and about 7 ceiling tiles have fallen through. thankfully none of my big tanks downstairs were affected. But there was still water and a paper mushy mess from the celing tiles. I quickly run back upstairs and start wringing out the towels and putting them back countiunously for 45 minutes. after the water was pretty much gone from my floor i go back down to the basement and see that one of the tiles holding a hvac aluminum vent had fallen and the aluminum vent had undone itself and is now sitting on my floor... I am going to just leave the basement for later as i have an insanely powerful dehumidifyer and dry air from my pumps (moving bed filter pumps) heating the air. Some of my basement walls will need to be repainted. I will purchase some cheap white paint at lowes next time i go.
I have 100% learned my lesson on flooding my house. I am going to make a water changer alarm from youtube asap... I am pissed and have so many things to do for school. and this itself is a problem that needs to be fixed.
