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armilite

I'll make it short but my 55 gallon fish tank burst a seal and it was not pretty dumped about 15 gallons of water on the basement floor. Luckily the man cave has the floor pitched some what towards the drain. Took me about 3 hours to go out and get a new tank and do the cross over to the new tank. At least all the fish survived. That was the tank I had all my bigger fish in and 24 hours later you can't tell it ever happened.

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  • Ruger4me

    Sounds about like my kitchen sink, only I'm still working on the new replacement faucet, no fish were lost in my issue either... 😀

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  • armilite

    Oh don't even get me going on plumbing I worked for 25 years on plumbing outside in the middle of the road. I needed to replace my laundry tub facet in the basement. I spent over a $100 on it and it still leaked when I was done. Ended up calling a plumber and spent $340 but it works now.

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  • Brookwood

    armilite, it could have been much worse! My wife's aquarium is upstairs in our home. If she ever had a leaker it would end up sending water through the floor into the finished dry walled basement ceiling! 😲


    Lucky so far but the unhappy thought has occurred to me a time or two!

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  • BikerBob

    Glad the leak was high enough in the tank that you didn’t lose the fish.

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  • dreher

    A hickup not a disaster. Loosing some of your favorite fish would be the disaster!!

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  • armilite
    Brookwood: 31516469997979/comments/31516504013211

    armilite, it could have been much worse! My wife's aquarium is upstairs in our home. If she ever had a leaker it would end up sending water through the floor into the finished dry walled basement ceiling! 😲

    Lucky so far but the unhappy thought has occurred to me a time or two!

    I have a 38 gallon upstairs in the living room which is right above the man cave it is only about a year old. I had another 38 gallon in the same spot but one day I was doing something in the tank and I leaned in a bit to far and snapped the plastic center support for it. The tank got an instant 1/4" bulge in it. I took some of the water out until I could find a new one. Its kind of an odd size and I had to order it from the fish store, I kinda sweated it out for a week.

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