Phew... So I woke up this morning, checked my e-mail etc, fed my betta and two guppies in QT, then decided to go downstairs. As I'm walkin down the last few steps, I turn the corner into the living room (where my 12 gallon is), and I hear a freaking waterfall of water. I was like OH ****. I look to see my tank HALF EMPTY!!! My first thought was "Mom's gunna kill me if the carpet smells...". I look on the ground and I don't see ANY wet carpet, anywere. I was like "Where the **** did the water go?" I looked around the tank and didn't see water rushing out anywhere, I had NO idea how the water got out. Meanwhile my fish were happy as heck trying to get me to feed them... After a minute I found that it was my CO2 line that I had stuck in the intake pipe of my AC 20. Water was dripping ever so slowly out of it, hence why I didn't see a giant puddle of water, a lot of it had evaporated already and during the night. Instantly I pulled the tube out of the intake and RAN upstairs to get my bucket with water left over from my PWCs on saturday. I poured that in and it brought it up a bit, but now I'm making some more to fill it the rest of the way. Meanwhile I have to leave for work in 40 minutes and my CAR is in pieces because I was fixing a leaky windshield... premonition maybe? I just finished the car, and I put a spare heater in the new water I'm making to try to dissolve some of the equilibrium I put in it a little quicker. The carpet IS wet, and I got a lot of it up with just towels. I also have a dehumidifier inches away on full blast hoping to pull some of the water out of the carpet. I don't think it'll smell (I've spilt things before) so I think I'm good. I'm just SO lucky my AC 20 didn't run dry or I'd be SOL right now... The water line was MILLIMETERS above the top grate of the intake pipe.
Phew...
EDIT: Oh, I forgot CHECK VALVE CHECK VALVE CHECK VALVE WHY DIDN'T I PUT ONE OF THE MANY CHECK VALVES I HAVE ON THE STUPID LINE?
Phew...
EDIT: Oh, I forgot CHECK VALVE CHECK VALVE CHECK VALVE WHY DIDN'T I PUT ONE OF THE MANY CHECK VALVES I HAVE ON THE STUPID LINE?