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After doing a water change on all my tanks last night, I went to bed and planned on sleeping in. About 9:45 pm I heard a "pop", as I was jumping out of bed I said "oh no that don't sound good". Then all of a sudden you hear rushing water. I run down the stairs and start looking at tanks then I realize it's my 160. It's cracked from the top all the way to the bottom. 8O I grabbed the python, my husband grabbed the 55 gallon drum, I came around the corner grabbing a trash can on the way the water is coming too fast and from too many places. While the carpet is getting soaked and the python is not working fast enough I run upstairs to get a towel in hopes of stopping at least one part of the leak. I get back down with the towel, that don't work, the towel is soaked in 10 seconds. My hubby grabs the python extention, sticks it in the tank and puts the end out the door, then he runs to the patio grabs the garden hose and does the same. Now we are draining the tank with 3 hoses. It seems like it's taking it forever to drain. We are trying to think "What else can we do?"
My mind is racing.........What would the geeks do? So while the tank was emptying I told my hubby to grab the trash can that we use for pure ro/di water and start filling it up with tank water. We also had another trash can that we keep the python in so I had him fill that one also. He put the two trash can's in the
kitchen out of the way. After getting the tank down to a level that's not leaking which is almost empty. Then we had to go through the process of taking out all of the holey rock so that we could catch the fish. Now I have wet holey rock sitting on my carpet as well as a soaked floor , so we started catching fish. It's pretty easy to catch them when there is hardly no water in the tank. Now they are in my kitchen in a 10 gallon trash can with a rena xp3. The lfs that I purchsed the tank from will not be open today but will reopen on Monday. I can't remember what kind of warranty I had on this tank but I purchsed it last year in Aug. 07. My problem now is that I'm not sure I want another tank, I'm not even sure I want the tanks I still have. I was so jumpy last night, with every little sound, I thought another tank is going to burst any minute. I'm just so grateful that I was home and didn't have to go to work the next morning when this happened. And I am extremely grateful for an understanding husband that's quick thinking even when he's dead tired. He told me last night that tanks were a total pain and that this kind of thing happens all the time. But if that's what I enjoy we will get another tank to replace that one. Not so sure I want to do that. :(
Now if I had a house with a fish room, concrete floors and a drain in the middle, I might say yes. Don't get me wrong I love all my fish and my tanks but I don't want to live in fear.
I have no clue what to do now.
My mind is racing.........What would the geeks do? So while the tank was emptying I told my hubby to grab the trash can that we use for pure ro/di water and start filling it up with tank water. We also had another trash can that we keep the python in so I had him fill that one also. He put the two trash can's in the
kitchen out of the way. After getting the tank down to a level that's not leaking which is almost empty. Then we had to go through the process of taking out all of the holey rock so that we could catch the fish. Now I have wet holey rock sitting on my carpet as well as a soaked floor , so we started catching fish. It's pretty easy to catch them when there is hardly no water in the tank. Now they are in my kitchen in a 10 gallon trash can with a rena xp3. The lfs that I purchsed the tank from will not be open today but will reopen on Monday. I can't remember what kind of warranty I had on this tank but I purchsed it last year in Aug. 07. My problem now is that I'm not sure I want another tank, I'm not even sure I want the tanks I still have. I was so jumpy last night, with every little sound, I thought another tank is going to burst any minute. I'm just so grateful that I was home and didn't have to go to work the next morning when this happened. And I am extremely grateful for an understanding husband that's quick thinking even when he's dead tired. He told me last night that tanks were a total pain and that this kind of thing happens all the time. But if that's what I enjoy we will get another tank to replace that one. Not so sure I want to do that. :(
Now if I had a house with a fish room, concrete floors and a drain in the middle, I might say yes. Don't get me wrong I love all my fish and my tanks but I don't want to live in fear.
I have no clue what to do now.
Is he trying to make me crazy? My husband said he's going to bring me to the doctor tomorrow and get me some Valium and tell the doctor the fish tank made me crazy. I might just tell him to go to a corner and get me a few before the day is up.
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