I posted this in the general fresh water forum but thought maybe it should be here too.
Last night (1:30 am) I got up to get something from the kitchen, when I walked in I stepped in a small amount of water, then after I walked across the room I stepped in a bigger amount of water and new something was wrong. Water all over the floor on the side of my tank in our kitchen. My tank is 135 gals so of course I'm scared. I had this same thing happend about a month ago so first thing I did was look behind the tank and sure enough one of my aquaclear 110 hob filters was leaking. (Same one as before) it's not cracked or broken, the water is coming out of the top of the filter and down the side of the tank onto the floor. The first time it happened I noticed the filters were not hanging level (the little level thing that comes with the filters broke off right after I had put them on the tank) So I got some pieced of wood and placed them between the tank and the filter to level them and since a month ago everything had been fine. I cleaned the tank and filters a couple of days ago and all looked great and had been fine, that is until last night. Filter looked level, stick was still in place so now I don't know why the thing is overflowing. I mopped up all the water and un-plugged the filter but now I'm not sure what to do. Any one have this problem before? My only thoughts are that the pump in the filter is doing it's job but the output back into the tank is not keeping up and it's filling to the brim and overflowing out the back side. Could I have too much media in the filter box? Any suggestions or thoughts would be great, I'm afriad to turn it on again and leave the room. I rent this house and can't affford to have to replace the kitchen floor and also the house is not on a concret slab so with enough water damage to the floor my tank could end up crashing though the floor. Also I can't afford to buy another filter at this moment, hoping to buy one next month but for now I've got to fix this problem and fast.
Thank you all so much for any help you can give me
Rene
Last night (1:30 am) I got up to get something from the kitchen, when I walked in I stepped in a small amount of water, then after I walked across the room I stepped in a bigger amount of water and new something was wrong. Water all over the floor on the side of my tank in our kitchen. My tank is 135 gals so of course I'm scared. I had this same thing happend about a month ago so first thing I did was look behind the tank and sure enough one of my aquaclear 110 hob filters was leaking. (Same one as before) it's not cracked or broken, the water is coming out of the top of the filter and down the side of the tank onto the floor. The first time it happened I noticed the filters were not hanging level (the little level thing that comes with the filters broke off right after I had put them on the tank) So I got some pieced of wood and placed them between the tank and the filter to level them and since a month ago everything had been fine. I cleaned the tank and filters a couple of days ago and all looked great and had been fine, that is until last night. Filter looked level, stick was still in place so now I don't know why the thing is overflowing. I mopped up all the water and un-plugged the filter but now I'm not sure what to do. Any one have this problem before? My only thoughts are that the pump in the filter is doing it's job but the output back into the tank is not keeping up and it's filling to the brim and overflowing out the back side. Could I have too much media in the filter box? Any suggestions or thoughts would be great, I'm afriad to turn it on again and leave the room. I rent this house and can't affford to have to replace the kitchen floor and also the house is not on a concret slab so with enough water damage to the floor my tank could end up crashing though the floor. Also I can't afford to buy another filter at this moment, hoping to buy one next month but for now I've got to fix this problem and fast.
Thank you all so much for any help you can give me
Rene
