So there I am at 1130 pm getting out of the shower to go to work (working mid shifts right now) and I hear what I can only describe as a severe rain storm in my living room. I run in and check the 150gal first... no issues thank god, and then i look at my 60 cube and see the water level is low... kind of odd so I open the cabinet and see that the bottom of the tank is cracked from one end to the other and water is rushing out. This being my first time dealing with this kind of thing i was justifiably very stressed, but all in all the process was not too bad. Luckily my sump in this tank was about the same dimension as the display so the water was mostly leaking back into the sump, the return pump was doing its job and bringing it back to the display so I didn’t end up flooding my sump. I unplugged everything else i could and got the gravel siphon out and began draining the tank. Took a while but I got the display nearly empty, I cut the hose of the return pump and used the hose to drain the sump. Total process took about 15 minutes to get all of the water and the tank/stand/sump outside, the carpet was pretty wet but nothing I couldn’t dry up with some towels and carpet cleaner.
I’m not really sure what caused the crack I have a pretty dang think sand-bed so if a rock shifted I don’t really think it could have cracked the glass, but who knows...
A few things to be thankful for-
1) I was on mid-shift so i was actually awake when this happened and able to handle, rather than waking up at 8 am to a flooded house.
2) The sump was the same size as the tank allowing the leaking water to go back into the sump.
3) The tank was still cycling and there wasn’t anything in there (except for a snail that i had added the day before to see if the water was inhabitable)
I’m not really sure what caused the crack I have a pretty dang think sand-bed so if a rock shifted I don’t really think it could have cracked the glass, but who knows...
A few things to be thankful for-
1) I was on mid-shift so i was actually awake when this happened and able to handle, rather than waking up at 8 am to a flooded house.
2) The sump was the same size as the tank allowing the leaking water to go back into the sump.
3) The tank was still cycling and there wasn’t anything in there (except for a snail that i had added the day before to see if the water was inhabitable)
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