I went away on vacation (and you *know* that's always when things go wrong) and came home a week later to find my 28 gal bow-front empty. Filter making crunchy crurning noises, heater not busted but melting my fake plants, and died messy fish. This was on the second floor of the house. It really is amazing what damage 28gallons of water can do!! $30,000 apparently!! The water went through the floor, into the room below it, and into the basement. The room that the aquarium was in needed to have the carpet replaced. The room below it needed to be completely gutted and redone (the seiling was falling through), and the furnature in the basement needed to be replaced and the floor and walls needed to be repainted.
So what happened was the power went out when we were gone. When it went out it created a serdge that started a syphon through the air-line hose and drained all the water out of the tank. It took us a year of fighting with the insurance company to get them to pay for it, most of it. In the mean time we couldn't use the three rooms. The room in the basement was a storage room anyway.
So what happened was the power went out when we were gone. When it went out it created a serdge that started a syphon through the air-line hose and drained all the water out of the tank. It took us a year of fighting with the insurance company to get them to pay for it, most of it. In the mean time we couldn't use the three rooms. The room in the basement was a storage room anyway.
Once you decide to spend more than $10 for something, an extra buck shouldn't be a problem.
