OVERFLOWED TANK THREAD!!!!!!!!
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i havent overflowed my tank but i have overflown my sump. it was when i was first setting up the tubing going from the pump to the main tank and my dad kept insisting to have the end going underwater so it would be quiet and i told him but then there will be no surface agitation which he replyed the filter is aerating the water the tank could be dead still and still have enough oxygen which he was right. but i knew there was another reason why i couldnt have the tubeing underwater but i couldnt remeber what it was. so we turn on the pump and the whole things running and we were testing if the sump could hold all the water from the drain (it could) so i leave it off for a bit and come back down later to find the sump OVERFLOWING!!! and im running around trying to figure out what was doing it 
.and then i realised the pump had back syphoned 
. but no harm done as the tank is in the basement and the floor is concrete
.and then i realised the pump had back syphoned . but no harm done as the tank is in the basement and the floor is concreteI have overflowed my tanks countless times. One time I had 5 inches of water in the guinea pig room (where my 75 gallon tank is). The door to that room has a waterproof threshhold and the water was streaming out of the sides of the door. That was the worst time. Other times I have had up to 20-40 gallons spilled.
Zander_The_RBP;3361016; said:i havent overflowed my tank but i have overflown my sump. it was when i was first setting up the tubing going from the pump to the main tank and my dad kept insisting to have the end going underwater so it would be quiet and i told him but then there will be no surface agitation which he replyed the filter is aerating the water the tank could be dead still and still have enough oxygen which he was right. but i knew there was another reason why i couldnt have the tubeing underwater but i couldnt remeber what it was. so we turn on the pump and the whole things running and we were testing if the sump could hold all the water from the drain (it could) so i leave it off for a bit and come back down later to find the sump OVERFLOWING!!! and im running around trying to figure out what was doing it
need a check valve between the tank and the sump
I 'overflowed' my rubbermaid 13gal garbage container! while sliding it 10' to my mom's bathroom toilet, I go to lift it w/o supporting the top lip/edge... crack! split! splish splash! the water was too heavy when I started to pour into the toilet it just split open & all over mom's just mopped floor into her linen closet under the cabinet around the toilet base etc. needless to say it smelled fishy with all that poop floating around! yuck! lucky her bathroom is has good sound insulation so I toweled mopped the floor then used ajax to scrub the floor. only thing is when it dries & I didn't get all the ajax off it cakes up & bang! got caught! mom knew right away!
des1liz;3359824; said:Ever overflowed a pond full of expensive koi with chlorinated water??
I had just drained my 1500 gallon pond down 30% and half way through filling it back up I decided I would go do the dished. So I get the dishes done and decided that I was already in the kitchen I should start dinner. Well, an hour later I remembered I had been in the middle of something important, but . . . what was it? Let me tell ya, half an hour later I look out the kitchen window to see my toy poodle walk by the pond and with every step the yard splashed
! Oh my god . . . the koi!!!! I ran out the sliding glass door and into the yard, my whole yard was a puddle and the koi were floating
. The water got turned off real real fast.
I ran back inside to get the dechlorinator but lo and behold I was out!!! It kept getting better, the closest LFS had one little bottle (16 oz.) for $18 I bought 3. I got home just in time to save all but two of the koi, thank god.
It was a costly mistake that I do not plan on repeating anytime soon.
Sorry to hear about that. I'm glad you got to save all the rest of your koi. I've had to buy dechlorinator at the store when I ran out also, and it is expensive. But when you gotta have it, you gotta have it.
One thing that might help you and your fish out in the future is if you went and bought a 300g rubbermaid tub. Set it up beside the pond, filled it, put your dechlorinator in, and then siphoned it into your pond. If you let it sit for a day or so it should get to the same temp also.
wow_it_esploded;3362288; said:
Oh wow, I couldn't imagine opening that door, 5 inches deep, whoosh, instant flood.
