Spaced Cowboy
South Bay Reefer
So yesterday, I was pottering about in the fish room, and I started to change the neoprene tubing on the peristaltic pumps that handle my water-change, the black tubing in...
I do it once per year, to [hah!] stop leaks from forming. Anyway, through the glass, I hear my wife calling my name and it sounds urgent, so I go to see what's up. Came back 30 mins later, and forgot that I'd only reconnected the input to the pump, not the output, so it was just an open circuit drawing from 400G of NSW on the other side of the house...
I just went back there today - wasn't really planning on it, but thought I'd give the nem and corals a bit of a snack, and ... Oh! The floor was about a half-inch deep in water...
When I was planning the fish-tank, and given that I'd managed to leak saltwater onto the nice hardwood floors in the past to the extent that they weren't really nice any more, I'd specced out pond liner to go all over the floor of the new fish room (which was really just a walled-off part of the old living-room)...
... up to the height of about 6", and I'd put a drain in the corner of the room. The drain has a bit of a lip on it, which is why I only had a half-inch of water on the floor, I'm guessing.
I change a fair amount of water (it's automated) - a gallon every 2 hours, so I'd have had about 10-12g of water pumped out over the floor ...
So all I had to do was mop it up, and thank my lucky stars that I put in that pond liner - otherwise it'd be seeping under the studded-wall to the rest of the living room and ... well that doesn't bear thinking about
So, what's the piece of equipment, or other feature, of your setup that you're *so* glad exists that way ?
I do it once per year, to [hah!] stop leaks from forming. Anyway, through the glass, I hear my wife calling my name and it sounds urgent, so I go to see what's up. Came back 30 mins later, and forgot that I'd only reconnected the input to the pump, not the output, so it was just an open circuit drawing from 400G of NSW on the other side of the house...
I just went back there today - wasn't really planning on it, but thought I'd give the nem and corals a bit of a snack, and ... Oh! The floor was about a half-inch deep in water...
When I was planning the fish-tank, and given that I'd managed to leak saltwater onto the nice hardwood floors in the past to the extent that they weren't really nice any more, I'd specced out pond liner to go all over the floor of the new fish room (which was really just a walled-off part of the old living-room)...
... up to the height of about 6", and I'd put a drain in the corner of the room. The drain has a bit of a lip on it, which is why I only had a half-inch of water on the floor, I'm guessing.
I change a fair amount of water (it's automated) - a gallon every 2 hours, so I'd have had about 10-12g of water pumped out over the floor ...
So all I had to do was mop it up, and thank my lucky stars that I put in that pond liner - otherwise it'd be seeping under the studded-wall to the rest of the living room and ... well that doesn't bear thinking about
So, what's the piece of equipment, or other feature, of your setup that you're *so* glad exists that way ?
