Viewing post #1140961 by plantladylin

drdawg said:I thought I did, Lin.

Ken, don't mind me ... I see it now! I think my brain is mush from being so tired. We made a huge move this week, retiring 110 miles farther south in the state and I think my brain is mush ... my husband and I did the move ourselves and we now realize we are both too old for this much work! Added to the chaos of moving all the stuff we've collected in our almost 47 years of marriage, we have a 150 gallon salt water aquarium. We actually bought a new tank and he set it up and a few days ago, mixed the salt water, filled the tank, got the pumps running etc. The fish, coral and all the other live rock and organisms were transported in large buckets full of salt water yesterday. He got all the coral and fish, etc. placed in the tank last night and all seemed well.

About 6:00 a.m. this morning he went downstairs and found salt water all over the tile floor in the family room ... apparently one of his fittings didn't hold! Luckily the tank didn't lose all 150 gallons of water and the fish, etc. are fine but he's had a horrendous mess to clean up this morning! I'm not sure if the area rug can be saved but he was able to use his wet/dry shop vac to suck up as much salt water as possible from the floor and I used beach towels to dry the legs of the furniture that got wet. Thank goodness we don't have any fancy-schmancy floors and furniture in that room that could have been ruined!

Well ... I better get back to work, I feel like I'll be unpacking for months to come!