Almost a huge fail!

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Woke up today to my wife "Esteban Tu pecera esta likiando!" basically dude your tanks leaking!

Run down stairs and I thought it was the ato line had gotten loose. An then I see the nice stream of water coming out of the two lil fishes reactor that houses my Gfo.

I don't have a clamp on the intake side. I guess the Lr that held up the pump moved and it got loose. 4 gallons of stinky salt water all over the living room. I'm sure under the sump I have gross water just kicking it.

What gets me is that I know better and I have the room to place it inside the sump, but since everyone hangs them on the side I did too! Anyways clamp those reactors at all elbows!

My ato dumped alot of kalk water (easily the 4.5 gallons). overnight PH is usually 8.16 and is now over 8.36. Oh well Shinto happens!

I'm just glad it didnt happen when I was on vacation because the ato would have dumped 32 gallons, and nuked the tank.

Because my wife just stares at the leaks and mops. God bless her soul but, she once stared at a 15 gallon leak and didn't want to wake me and mopped for 2 hours straight.
Yes she's not a native becAuse one of my ex California live in girlfriends, would have tried, to make me mop that Shinto up while supervising.




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wickedfish said:
Woke up today to my wife "Esteban Tu pecera esta likiando!" basically dude your tanks leaking!

Run down stairs and I thought it was the ato line ha gotten loose. An then I see the nice stream of water coming out of the two lil fishes reactor thy houses my Gfo.

I don't have a clamp on the intake side. I guess the Lr that held up the pump moved and it got loose. 4 gallons of stinky salt water all over the living room I'm sure under the sump I have gross water just kicking it.

What gets me is that I know better and I have the room to place it inside the sump, but since everyone hangs them on the side I did too! Anyways clamp those reactors at all elbows!

My ato dumped alot of kalk water (easily the 4.5 gallons). overnight PH is usually 8.16 and is now over 8.36. Oh well Shinto happens! I'm just gla it didnt happen when I was on vacation because the ato would have dumped 32 gallons and nuked the tank. Because my wife just stares at the leaks and mops. God bless her soul but she once stared at a 15 gallon leak and didn't want to wake me and mopped for 2 hours straight. Yes she's not a native becAuse one of my ex California live in girlfriends would have tried to make me mop that Shinto up while supervising.




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...god bless imported wives :) lol
 
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Every thing must have a clamp or zip tie, I also had this happen many years ago, not any more. Glad to hear it wasn't a disaster.
 
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no man... once they start watching american tv, se les salen las uñas... shows like cops, mujer, and court shows will speed up the process...



but good thing your tank is so big... if it would've been a smaller thank, it would've been a disaster...
 
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I ziptied all my hoses on my reactors. I had one of my hoses before on my ATO not clamp and water decided to slightly flood the living room floor. Thank goodness for a shop vacc.
 
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ya I clamped it up problem solved.

@ gumbii drops, ya bro! Stupid talk shows and stupid friends wives are ruining my beautiful wife.
 
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"likiando"? Is that even a word? LOL. That's some serious reef Spanglish!

I'll have to remember that next time I go drinking with the guys. "Estoy likiando!"
 
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Bonsainut said:
"likiando"? Is that even a word? LOL. That's some serious reef Spanglish!

I'll have to remember that next time I go drinking with the guys. "Estoy likiando!"
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If you say "estoy likiando!" They'll tell you to change your tampon.

Likiando: leekyando; circa 1973 spangliSh roots;
meaning to leak or to be leaking.


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I had a 75 gallon glass tank that had been running for some time. I went to do a water change on the Saturday and noticed a little 1/4 inch crack starting in the left hand front corner of the tank. sunday rolls around the crack is now an inch. So I tell my dad maybe we should drain it.... but he insisted that it would be OK and that he would call the company Monday morning. On Monday morning I leave for school and the crack is now about 2 1/2 inches..!!! I get a slip to leave school 10 minutes after arriving there... WHY??? My tank had cracked from the left cornner all the way across to the right corner and water had been cascading out... almost like someone had put a waterfall in my bedroom!
 
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Sorry to hear about that.

If I had a crack it would
Make me paranoid. Would not risk my home. I've read horror stories of walls with rot and had to be replaced to the studs from tanks leaking the greater percentage of their contents.




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