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Hey y'all, so it's about 12:10 AM and I just noticed that my TopFin air pump had syphoned water from my freshwater tank onto the floor. I'll add some pics at the end to give y'all a better idea of what happened.
I have a 3 way thing (I'm blanking, not really sure what to call it but I have a picture of it) that takes air from the pump to three different air tubes. Two of the tubes are in my saltwater tank and the third is to a bubble wand in my freshwater tank. Both tanks are relatively small and only about 8-10 feet away from each other. I had just moved my tanks today as I was switching bedrooms but y'all don't need my life story(lol). I had everything set up exactly how it was before, except the tube to my freshwater tank was no longer long enough and I didn't have a longer one to use so I used whatever strong tape I had on hand (painters tape then duct tape as shown in picture below). My dad taped them and we made sure no air was able to come out of the tape. We also were able to fit the black tube into the blue tube so it worked (so we thought). Little did I know, I would be coming home to water all over my floor. I'm honestly so confused. This has never happened to me but maybe it has to someone else so if y'all have any ideas, throw 'em at me! [emoji16]
I have a 3 way thing (I'm blanking, not really sure what to call it but I have a picture of it) that takes air from the pump to three different air tubes. Two of the tubes are in my saltwater tank and the third is to a bubble wand in my freshwater tank. Both tanks are relatively small and only about 8-10 feet away from each other. I had just moved my tanks today as I was switching bedrooms but y'all don't need my life story(lol). I had everything set up exactly how it was before, except the tube to my freshwater tank was no longer long enough and I didn't have a longer one to use so I used whatever strong tape I had on hand (painters tape then duct tape as shown in picture below). My dad taped them and we made sure no air was able to come out of the tape. We also were able to fit the black tube into the blue tube so it worked (so we thought). Little did I know, I would be coming home to water all over my floor. I'm honestly so confused. This has never happened to me but maybe it has to someone else so if y'all have any ideas, throw 'em at me! [emoji16]