Averted a disaster last night!

[raynist]

After the meeting I came home and fed my 180g tank and everything seemed to be normal. About 30 minutes later I was laying on the couch and noticed that I could now see the 2 center braces under the water while looking up at my tank. A few seconds later I could see all of the trim around the sides under water. I jumped up and turned off my return pump and looked at my strainers on my 4 - 1 inch drains and they looked pretty bad. I took them off and they were about 90% clogged from looking at the outside (mostly thick coraline). When I took them out, 2 of them had a piece of bubble algae that filled the whole diameter of the bottom of the strainer.

I had not cleaned them in about a year. I will be cleaning these every 3 months from now on. Thank god I was sitting there when the return pump flow overmatched what the drains could flow or I would have had about 30 gallons from my sump on the gameroom floor!!

--Ray

 

[acer]

Yep - your lucky - things like that always happen when I am not home. Glad to hear you caught it- spills like that tend to cause spouses to "put their foot down" regarding reef stuff.

 

[BeanAnimal]

I put a power strip in the fish room the other day while I was moving stuff around. It must have got wet, I was in the other room and heard a sizzling sound but could not figure out what it was, as it was intermitant. I figured it out when I smelled that familiar electrical and plastic burning smell. Good thing I was home too!

 

[rickyfins]

Bean I did that but then stepped over the powerstrip that was dangling in mid air! Guess what got shocked. HE HE yep.


My thigh hurt for about an hour. :lolspin: :lolspin: :lolspin: :lolspin:





OH, and I wished I wasn't home for that disaster!