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View Poll Results: Have you ever had a flood? | |
Yes.
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No.
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02-20-2006, 12:10 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: MORENO VALLEY, CA,California
Posts: 562
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Yep got something stuck in the topoff float valve.spilled about 3gls _________ 135g 3" SB 3- 400w MH, 2 65w PC actinic, 2 10K PC, 40g refugium, EV-180 PS ,Mag 18 ret,1700 PH,2 maxi 1200's air water and ice 5 stage RO/DI  | 
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02-20-2006, 12:50 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
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Remember to never block the output of a skimmer  . A long time ago I was cleaning my skimmer (berlin xl at the time) and i was using a sponge (like the ones for washing dishes with a coarser side) to clean the inside of the return line and the phone rang. So i forgot the sponge in there. Plugged everything back up and left the room while the skimmer filled up (the XL were BIG  ). When i came back the collection cup had overflowed about 10 gallons on the floor. Thats a mag 12 at 0" head plugged on the skimmer for ya  .
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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02-20-2006, 03:12 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
Posts: 1,200
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Yup, spilled about 3-4 gallons when power went out (no check valve at the time) and overflooded my sump! Ack.
Also spilled about 2-3 gallons when the o-rings on my overflow went out while trying to solve a small leak on the outlet hose on the OF.
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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02-20-2006, 03:27 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
Posts: 367
Karma: 142
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Come on! I'm just starting out with this and I've already spent more than the national debt of some countries! 
Seriously how long can I expect a new glass aquarium to last before leaking?? 
Thanks. This is a great post!! 
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | |
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02-20-2006, 05:35 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
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Originally Posted by Dador Come on! I'm just starting out with this and I've already spent more than the national debt of some countries! | LOL... and its only the beginning... trust me | |
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02-20-2006, 06:00 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,378
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not at home, but at the lab yes...o man yes ha ha XD _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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02-20-2006, 06:03 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 403
Karma: 37
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I had a 40 gal custom fresh water tank that leaked 30 gallons overnight. I woke up and stepped on the wet carpet and ran out to find the tank almost empty. 
Come to think of it, I might fix the tank and use it for reef or breeder tank.
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Started on Jan 24, cycled on Feb 17
125 gallons (72" x 18" x 22"), 20 gallons sump, 29 gallons fuge. 90 lbs sugar fine sand in MT and 30 in fuge.
Equipments:
Coralife Super Skimmer 220 w/ an air pump to increase micro bubbles, Mag drive 9.5 return pump
2 Maxi 900 and Rio+ 2100 as powerheads, Mag 350 filter
Lighting:
110watts PC, 70watts NO
Resident:
2 Polyps Ricordia
Royal Gramma, Lawnmower Blenny
Sally Light Foot
Pepermint Shrimp
70 Blue Leg Hermits
25 Snails | |
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02-20-2006, 06:22 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Collingswood, NJ Age: 35
Posts: 70
Karma: 4
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Thank god it was only when I was filling my kitchen sink to do dishes.. and well.. went grocery shopping and left the sink running and plugged.. hmmm.. what a mess..
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75G with approx 125lbs of rock, wet dry, TUNZE 9010 Skimmer, 300w Heater, 4x65 Odyssea Lights with Moon, 2 inches of live sand | |
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02-20-2006, 06:51 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Melbourne, VIC,Victoria
Posts: 2,261
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Chromis got stuck in my durso, tank overflowed
Luckily, the water ran down the power cable for the MH lighting and straight into the power point blowing it to smithereens. Unluckily the DSB imploded and killed everything, not to mention that I had no powere in the house for a while.
JOhn
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The organization is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs at different levels. Some monkeys are climbing up, some down. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a&&holes. | |
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