Bad night for me

[moganman]

Was doing a water change on my 20 gallon long. Drained about 75%, then started filling up again. I decide to watch Netflix and got into a movie and after about 15 mins, I jumped up went into my room and water is everywhere. Filled all 5 drawers on my dresser water on my bed, water saturated my carpet, all of my school work soaked. First time every happened to me and I'm hoping it's the last. I'm normally very careful, but yesterday I was careless. :ertrink:. Glad I had enough towels to get a lot of it up.

[barberking12]

dang bro that sucks i hope i never have that happen

[johnnymisty]

I had that happen to me tue when i did a water change not that much water though only about 5 gallons flowed outta my sump was watching tv the tank was only 5 feet away and i spaced out then snapped an realized what happened

[gc09]

Damn bro that sucks

[crazy42bmx]

Ooops.....

[tbui1178]

Happens to all of us one time or another. Important thing is that you learned from it.

[NDsuperduty]

Bad night for me

I've never overflowed a tank but when I was in college I drained 3-5 gallons on to my floor by accident. I didn't have a back flow preventer on my air stone. Don't remember why I unplugged the air pump but water started to drain back through the air tube and onto the floor of my room in second story of my parents house. Luckily no damage to the house but took a while to soak up everything.

[Crude]

That sucks. Sorry man. Having a leak or overfilling is definitely my biggest fear about this hobby I've got a 500gph pond pump I use to fill my tank after a WC... got distracted and left it running, but caught it with about 1mm to spare before it spilled over. Scary.

[BrAin]

I've spilled water a couple times and had a fill hose come apart under pressure but never overflowed. If you can get a shop vac and vacuum up as much as possible it would be better for your floor. You wont believe how much water is in the carpet padding.

[Crude]

Everyone should own a shop vac

[mistahoo]

Everyone should own a shop vac

+1 they're such a wonderful invention!

[supadave]

If you don't have access to a shop vac.......you may want to go to a Krogers and rent a carpet shampoo machine . I think that they do a better job of sucking up water from carpet . You can also rent one from Home Depot .

[Ogrodii]

Sucks man!! Shop Vac does work good for water spills. thnks for some metro

[troy tucker]

It does suck. I had a spill but my wife has wood floors. Cleaned it up fast. It may be why she doesn't like my tanks...

[Crude]

I shop vac-ed ~50lbs of leftover PFS when my back was broken from the first 50lbs. Also used it to suck out the remaining argonite+water from my current tank after I'd scooped out as much as I could (btw, anyone want ~ 70lbs of argonite? I dont actually know how much it weighs but I'm pretty strong and it was heavy.... hah)