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Woke up to water 3" deep throughout the whole basement. Luckily Almost no personal items were ruined. The y-valve that I installed to direct water to the RODI and washing machine had broken and water was pouring out of it all night I'm guessing. All to make 10 gallons a week. So ****ed at myself. Should have gotten a better setup or different valve. I've had my tank up and running since 11/14. It was my first saltwater tank. I'd had planted tanks for many years. Don't even know if I want to keep the tank anymore. Sorry just venting. :uhoh3:
 
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Woke up to water 3" deep throughout the whole basement. Luckily Almost no personal items were ruined. The y-valve that I installed to direct water to the RODI and washing machine had broken and water was pouring out of it all night I'm guessing. All to make 10 gallons a week. So ****ed at myself. Should have gotten a better setup or different valve. I've had my tank up and running since 11/14. It was my first saltwater tank. I'd had planted tanks for many years. Don't even know if I want to keep the tank anymore. Sorry just venting. :uhoh3:
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That sucks. I had a similar set up on my last system and I didn't trust it so I shut the water off every night. The system I have now connects to the faucet in my fish room.
 
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Same happened to me, except I was home when it happened and it wasn't an issue. I can't stress enough to get a quality fitting.

I use this one now, it's all metal so hopefully won't be an issue
 
Nothing wrong with the tank except some algae. Just tired. I do have too many hobbies. Now I have to redo a bunch of drywall and lay some new flooring. Maybe I'm just overreacting after a long day.
 
Probably. Flooded house ain't nothing. Throw some blowers and dehumidifiers in there and keep enjoying your tank
 
Just a Monday morning quarterback thing, I have a 30 gallon and I make water in a brute trash can every couple of Saturdays for top off and water changes rather than having the rodi system hooked up permanently. I would consider that if I were you for the future should you decide to keep going. That being said it still doesn't change the fact that the washer connectors are the most flood prone connections in our house (right next to the water heater) which will not change either you stay with the hobby or not... Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.
 
I drained the basement by 9 this morning. Ripped out the carpet and have fans going and dehumidifiers going. If Iever do RODI again it will be outside and only hooked up while making water. We'll see how the sun rises tomorrow. It's been a long day.
 
That's what I do but not for the reasons you experienced. I *have* left a fill tube in the tank overnight before and woken up to many gallons of watery salt all over the kitchen floor. :(

I need to come up with some sort of cart with a 20 or 30 gallon water container that I can mount the RO to and get fancy with my filling. I'm getting tired of lugging 5 gal jerry cans all over the place.

I marvel at people who put a salt water tank in a room with carpet. Brave.

Good luck with your clean up.
 
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I drained the basement by 9 this morning. Ripped out the carpet and have fans going and dehumidifiers going. If Iever do RODI again it will be outside and only hooked up while making water. We'll see how the sun rises tomorrow. It's been a long day.
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With only making 10 gallons a week. As others said, run it off a sink. Store water in 5 gallon rodi jugs or just trash can or whatever. Be pretty easy to store 40 gallons or an entire months worth at a time.
 
Wow, that is really is terrible. Looks like that Y-connector had plastic joinining the connector to the body??
Don't give up, we have all had setbacks. Just think of the enjoyment you get from the tank.
 
Sorry for your luck! It does pay off in the long run to buy the very best you possibly can. Murphy is alive and well - if it can fail, it will. It's just a matter of when.

I keep my rodi hooked up 24/7/365 but it is in the basement, with a overflow line running from my storage barrel to the drain justincase. I also tend to preemptively replace fitting (and washer hook up lines) on the theory that it is much cheaper and easier to avert the disaster than it is to clean up after.

BTW - are you related to Johnike??????????
 
If I gave up the hobby because I flooded a home with RODI or spilt water, I'd have quit 3 or 4 times by now :)

Not making light of the sutuation, we just flooded our house 7 weeks ago when a under sink pipe burst when we were away. I know it sucks but just realize that it's not often that those kind of things happen. At least it's better than getting a knock on your door from the apartment below you at 2am because there roof is leaking front under your kitchen (where I made my rodi at the time).

My new tank is against the wall on the other side of my garage. I'm putting all equipment other than the DT in the garage so that if anything happens like this it will stay out of my house.

Just keep up your spirits and enjoy the tank once the clean up is finished!!
 
Twice now I have forgot to shut off my rodi before going to bed, both times woke up to about 1.5" of water in the basement.

First time I was devistated, second time, I was much more calm, and got it cleaned up much faster..

I know it sucks, but it's happened to a lot of us.

Just be sure to let the emotional part pass before making any actions
 
Wherever you have a potential for flood, get a water alarm of about 200 decibels. That would have waked you the instant water touched the alarm unit. A good one is under 20.00 ---check the decibel level: soft is no good. You want it to scream. And check its batteries once every 3 months, when you check the house smoke alarms.
 
Thanks for the water alarm suggestion Sk8r. I wasn't aware that they were so cheap. I'm new to this, and I've already flooded my bathroom/bedroom once in just a few short months. I'll certainly be picking up one for where I fill my RODI and one near my tank.
 
amazon has them: pay attention to the decibels. 100-200 will get your attention.
 
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