Duke Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 What is your best water spill in your house? Who's tanks are on carpet? Would you have a tank on carpet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 yeah mine is on a million-year old room-sized rug. it has had dozens of litres of [mostly dirty] saltwater on it. no skimmer spills yet though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 My old tank was on carpet. Had a few spills. Was setup for over a year, when we moved i had to have the carpet cut out from around the tank and replaced. The carpet actually went a kind of milky white liquid, made feel a bit sick. for my new tank, I decided to remove the carpet up-front, and put down some lino for it to sit on. They way the new tank is designed I have had 0 spillages, but still water gets dripped from my arms and tongs when working on the tank. Carpet 0 tank 1 Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderstorm Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 6 years ago i had a 500 litre 6 foot tank, It was sitting on a small platform a few inches off the floor, well my daughter had a dolls cot and was swinging it around and it hit the tank shattering it and all its contents went all over the floor, Fish, plants gravel the lot was dragged out of the tank by the water rush, the house was on poles and when i went outside the underneath looked like a giant shower lol, Lucky at the time my brother was a carpet layer so he helped me uplift the carpet and drape it over the clothesline to dry it out, we relaid it a few weeks later, got a big heater to dry the house as over half of the floor of the house was soaked. $200 later i had repaired the tank better than it was before and made a proper stand, both me and my daughter learnt something that day lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanksman Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 My best spills are the little ones where the bucket I am syphoning into overflows :oops: yes onto the carpet. My worst spill was &%#@!)(% brineshrimp hatchery I allowed to fall over onto the Carpet :evil: Saltwater and Brineshrimp and eggs etc. Gee I was happy :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifty Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 making a fresh batch of salt water, forgot about it and went out for 4 hours, flooded half the downstairs of the house, was a complete disaster. Lets just say I always make up my water in a 30l container in the laundry tub then transfer it too the large water bucket since that date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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