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HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP
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HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP 4 years ago #13030

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my 55 gallon oscar tank had an air hose for a bubble stone i unhocked it from the air pump at nightan put on another tank and when i woke up the water was syphining from the air hose and about 30 gallons of water was on my floor i cleaned it up with a towel a nd have a fan blowing on it is they any thing else i can do

p.s. the fish are fine

Re:HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP 4 years ago #13031

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I would give it a really good scrub with disinfectant because fishy water and sometimes stink when it dries. I had the same thing, one of my filters started leaking all over the carpet and the smell wasn't too good.

you have learnt a very valuable lesson that everyone should learn from, leaving a hose half in and half out in your tank can easily start a siphon. I've had it happened to me occasionally when I have just finished putting water back into the tank with a hose, one end is in the tank, the other end is on the tap, when you take it off the tap, a siphon can start
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Re:HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP 4 years ago #13034

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is there anything else i can do so it doen't ruin my wood floor

Re:HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP 4 years ago #13035

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ideally, you would probably want to pull the carpet up and dry the floorboards out properly but that may be problematic in your situation. Apart from that, I'm not really an expert on drying out carpets and floorboards. I shouldn't imagine that your carpet or floorboards are going to rot just from this one accident.
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Re:HELP MY ROOM IS FLOODED PLEASE ANSWER ASP 3 years, 12 months ago #13225

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Hi, you could buy a small filter that fits on your air line this will stop any back siphoning and save you cleaning in the future. any fish shop will sell them. PS i would fit them to all air lines. you could also move your pump up higher than your tank water level but once the filters are on you should have no problems other than a fishy smell from your carpet.
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