The Water Bug that's been going around

[ctxmonitor]

Jim, that was a horror indeed. Luckily it didn't happen to me, or else I would be afraid of water by now. Hope that it would never hapeen again..

But I didn't have any water bug that was too major. I had my ro/di turn on and forgot to turn it off for two days, but the bucket was in my basement and there was a drain a few feet away. So I just wasted a 20, 30 gallon of good old ro water. I think this is why a ro/di unit is best used in a basement. For people like me who always forget things.

I also had an experience with a 10 gallon tank crack on me. I have a few fish in quarantine and a bunch live rock. I guess the rock was too much for a 10 gallon and it cracked the bottom. All the water drained out and all my fish was died by the time I got home. That was the worst water bug for me so far...

 

[House of Laughter]

Truly bitten CTX - RIP quarantine fish!

House

 

[jhale]

Jim, that's the most horrifying sequence of water related events.

It's a good thing you did not rip out the entire new wall. ack.

Having the tank in the basement will be a good thing, the side benifit when your skimmer overflows next it won't leak into the floor below.

 

[House of Laughter]

yeah, JH and the drain is only about 5 foot from the sump/skimmer area - planning is 1/2 the battle

House

 

[jackson6745]

Damn...I hate these water bug stories. Sorry to hear of everyone's problems I had a $500 bite when my skimmer flooded my stand and ruined 2 external pumps. I found the cause of the bug and squished him

Jim, it's funny what you think of when you're sitting in the bathroom I think I thought out my fishtank plumbing there

 

[House of Laughter]

when in Rome, do as the Romans do!

 

[bad coffee]

The day I moved into a 2 month sublet I set up my ro to fill my 5 gallon bucket. (The bucket always goes in the sink. I'm a dumbass and always forget.) After moving everything into storage and the rest into the sublet, I was beat. I sat down on the couch with a beer (9pm) and was woken up by the fire department at 4am. The INLET to my ro broke, and the hose FROM THE FAUCET started spewing water all over the kitchen. I was on the third floor. The lady on the first floor called the FD. It was leaking right above her bed.

I got lucky, the drop tile ceiling on the second floor caught most of the water.

The FD said it was more than 500 gallons. Ouch. I never got a bill either.

But the people in the building never spoke another word to me for some reason. (mostly because over 3/4 of them didn't speak a word of english. Maybe that's a good thing)

BC

 

[jhale]

almost flooded the RO bin. I left for the day thinking my gf would turn off the ro valve when she left. I came home with an inch of room at the top to spare. close one.
I need that float valve.

 

[ShaunW]

Damn! BC your story sounds just like mine (reading your story gave me Deja Vu)

Having the FDNY stop the water, however, "takes the cake".