What a weekend...
Where do I start??? We moved into our house Tuesday and all seemed well. The next day, I cut the hole into my wall for the picture frame effect I want to see the tank from the family room downstairs. That went well, except for being a plaster/lathe wall and some of the edges chipped of larger pieces than I wanted and the dust was fierce(still sneezing). I then built the frame for the tank in the washroom and all, again seemed well. I had an electrician buddy of mine come over and give me some pointers on what I should do with my electrical needs and he said things were fine as they are... just to split the usage between to breakers(a 20 and a 15amp) that happen to be in the same room. So, bonus! Then, another buddy was kind enough to make a run down to help pick up my new 120. Well, we brought it in the house and I put it up on the stand. So far so good. Then I decided that I didn't like how the braces were placed and tried to modify... BAD NEWS!!! I had the tank filled Friday morning. That was cool and things were still going as planned. Then, that afternoon, I added 2 5 gl buckets of oolitic sand and some of by live rock, put my sump(28 gl rubbermaid) and refugium(55 gl tank) in place under the stand and started the system up to circulate and left to take care of some arrends. Guess what I returned home to find(about a half hour later)... about 70 gallons of water down through my wall, over the electrical socket and phone jack, soaked carpet and a large puddle in my wash room. I about cried... the tank had a crack that went from the bottom corner in the front to the top center. I called a buddy that owns a LFS and he happened to have a 120 that he gave me a sweet deal on and stayed an hour late to make sure I got it( I was able to seal the crack for a short time using a piece of acrylic wrapped in a plastic bag). So, I put all of the live rock, coral and critters back into a holding bin with a heater and a pump. I got back, emptied the rest of the sand, put the water I was able to save back in the barrels and pulled down the broken 120 and replaced it with the newer 120. I then went back down and got enough water to fill the system back up, plumbed in the new 120 and it's flowing as it should. I guess the stress became too much because everything died( I think the sea cucumber nuked it all). Man, it's been hectic, but now, hopefully things will settle down and over the next few days I'll be adding my auto-top off, kalk reactor, calcium reactor, ozone, and finally the lighting.
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Originally Posted by Reptoreef
