This morning, around 6am, I went upstairs to get ready for bed, and there was a weird and very noisy splashing noise coming from the tank
(currantly a sterlite tub, 14.5g filled to about 10.5g, tied with rope several times and with a bungee cord across, 2 filters, -tetra?- 2-10gWhisper, & a 10-30gWhisper).
I ran to check it out and immediately noticed that the water line had dropped roughly an inch since I"d last seen it several hours ago, as well as - I could see a little bit of the 2-10 filter through a 'crack' in the front of the lid - the smaller filter was splashing in a bad way. (In a bad way, I panicked, that's the best way to describe it right now, lol.)
I immediately pulled the plug on both filters, checked the plug (it's in front of the tank area) for water, luckily it was dry (the one on the wall ain't :jaw-dropping: ), but I noticed that the shelf it's on was wet, then that the carpet was wet, the wall - what I could see of it - was wet.
I took off the lid and the bungee cord - above and several inches to the side of the small noisy filter - was soaked.
I got everybody out and most everything (that took a while, whew!) and let the water out.
(I put the gouramis and shrimp in a tub with a buch of the plants and some decor... I haven't seen any shrimp in a while....)
The 2-10g filter is on the tub and seems to be working fine...?
I don't know if the tub actually leaked, or since the small filter, which is unfortunately the only one that I noticed cause it was so loud, seems to be doing fine, maybe something happened with the 10-30g filter???
I haven't tested it yet, it's hanging on the back of 'trash can' bucket - the sponge in another bucket of tank water - with plants in the bottom with tank water.
Once I can move the plants out of that or one of the other buckets, I will move that bucket to the bath tub, fill with water, and test the larger filter (standing far away from it with the shower curtain pulled around the bucket as much as possible, lol).
Exploding filter???
I've only had this filter a week or two...
Why the heck would a filter shoot Up???
To be continued....
(currantly a sterlite tub, 14.5g filled to about 10.5g, tied with rope several times and with a bungee cord across, 2 filters, -tetra?- 2-10gWhisper, & a 10-30gWhisper).
I ran to check it out and immediately noticed that the water line had dropped roughly an inch since I"d last seen it several hours ago, as well as - I could see a little bit of the 2-10 filter through a 'crack' in the front of the lid - the smaller filter was splashing in a bad way. (In a bad way, I panicked, that's the best way to describe it right now, lol.)
I immediately pulled the plug on both filters, checked the plug (it's in front of the tank area) for water, luckily it was dry (the one on the wall ain't :jaw-dropping: ), but I noticed that the shelf it's on was wet, then that the carpet was wet, the wall - what I could see of it - was wet.
I took off the lid and the bungee cord - above and several inches to the side of the small noisy filter - was soaked.
I got everybody out and most everything (that took a while, whew!) and let the water out.
(I put the gouramis and shrimp in a tub with a buch of the plants and some decor... I haven't seen any shrimp in a while....)
The 2-10g filter is on the tub and seems to be working fine...?
I don't know if the tub actually leaked, or since the small filter, which is unfortunately the only one that I noticed cause it was so loud, seems to be doing fine, maybe something happened with the 10-30g filter???
I haven't tested it yet, it's hanging on the back of 'trash can' bucket - the sponge in another bucket of tank water - with plants in the bottom with tank water.
Once I can move the plants out of that or one of the other buckets, I will move that bucket to the bath tub, fill with water, and test the larger filter (standing far away from it with the shower curtain pulled around the bucket as much as possible, lol).
Exploding filter???
I've only had this filter a week or two...
Why the heck would a filter shoot Up???
To be continued....
