Good Morning 2 gallons of water

[+brian.srock]

Woke up this morning with about 2 gallons of water in the dining room floor. Shopvac'd most of it up and I have my garage fan drying what was missed. Luckily I have stain concrete floors so nothing was ruined. Can't figure out if I have a leak in the tank or if I had some reverse flow after doing my water change last night. I'm leaning towards the airpump even with it having a check valve... Because thats cheaper than any problem with my tank. I only had a gallon of pre mixed salt water available so I put that in the tank and my salinity is at 1.022 and thankfully I didnt lose anyone.

[+mcallahan]

what is the air pump going to?

[+brian.srock]

The skimmer. I have a seaclone so it's one of the "mods" to get it working with an airstone in it. It was weird because most of the pooled water was under the kitchen table and not around the aquarium so I couldn't see where it came from.

I was able to refill it to original levels and if I come back home during lunch with more water on the floor then I have a problem.

[+brian.srock]

It appears to be reverse flow as there is no water on the floor when my g/f got home. I guess its the check valve and with it being in the skimmer the check valve was lower than the tank height so it drained the tank until the height on the tank and height on the check valve was equal. Lesson learned.

And that lesson is ...don't buy a cheap a$$ skimmer and try to mod it!

[+mcallahan]

And that lesson is ...don't buy a cheap a$ skimmer and try to mod it!

Being cheap never pays.

Sounds like you've learned your lesson tho so move on and onto the next thing

[Michael Rodriguez]

Yup. Definately don't skimp on the skimmer!