Scurvy’s Mad Wrasse 110

pelphrey · Oct 28, 2018

Bound to be flowing over that eurobrace by now!

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

pelphrey said:
Bound to be flowing over that eurobrace by now!

Woke up at 6:30 to the sound of water.... jumped up, felll down the stairs scaring the crap out of the dog.... found the sump starting to fill. Maybe a couple gallons of water at that point.

There was a small amount of water leaking inside the stand but it was pitch black and I had just concussed myself from the roll down the stairs so I couldnt see where it was coming from.

Shut off the water, cleaned up the mess and went back to bed. Once the coffees done Ill give it a look. Hopefully just a loose union!

Fin · Oct 28, 2018

At least you didn't discover the leak on a Monday morning.

Hope it is something simple to fix.

I have done the head over heels tumble down a flight of stairs. No fun! Hope you are ok. Thank goodness I was full of adult beverages at the time. Just bruised my heel on the not too graceful landing.

Katrina71 · Oct 28, 2018

Last year I broke my foot in 3 places and 2 in my fibula. In the process I managed to bust my nose and both lips. No adult beverage, no stairs. I didn't go to the doctor until a week later when my foot turned black. Yes, it was as graceful as it sounds.

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

Katrina71 said:
Last year I broke my foot in 3 places and 2 in my fibula. In the process I managed to bust my nose and both lips. No adult beverage, no stairs. I didn't go to the doctor until a week later when my foot turned black. Yes, it was as graceful as it sounds.

Amazing what we’ll put off to avoid a trip to urgent care! I woulda waited for gang green to set in im sure. My last trip to urgent care for what i assumed would be a script of antibiotics wound up being a collapsed lung leading to multiple surgeries. Fun stuff!

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

Fin said:
At least you didn't discover the leak on a Monday morning. Hope it is something simple to fix.

I have done the head over heels tumble down a flight of stairs. No fun! Hope you are ok. Thank goodness I was full of adult beverages at the time. Just bruised my heel on the not too graceful landing.

Thanks, luckily no major injuries. Maybe a bruised tailbone as it was more a slip than tumble.

Katrina71 · Oct 28, 2018

Scurvy said:
Amazing what we’ll put off to avoid a trip to urgent care! I woulda waited for gang green to set in im sure. My last trip to urgent care for what i assumed would be a script of antibiotics wound up being a callopsed lung leading to multiple surgeries. Fun stuff!

Lol. I worked for 3 days with mine. We may be related.

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

Well i drained the sump, pulled it out amd dried up the rest of the water that worked underneath the sump. Re-installed and tightened up the unions. The main drain union was fairly loose before and the valve was closed so hopefully thats all it was.

Waters running again. Should be just a couple hours

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

Had a 1 inch check valve sitting around so I decided to add it in. Never used one before but figure this will allow me to point my return nozzles where ever I want without worrying.

pelphrey · Oct 28, 2018

Sounds like you’ve had an eventful morning! Hahaha

You’re missing your skimmer cup! Haha have you noticed how hard the lid for the cup is to clean. Junk gets caught between the two pieces of plastic.

Scurvy · Oct 28, 2018

pelphrey said:
Sounds like you’ve had an eventful morning! Hahaha

You’re missing your skimmer cup! Haha have you noticed how hard the lid for the cup is to clean. Junk gets caught between the two pieces of plastic.

Yes! I hate that lid!!! You can pull a wet paper towel through and get close but never get out all the junk.