Sometimes Life Sux

[TwoTankAmin]

I am sitting here on a break. My 75 gal. F1 zebra breeder tank has an Eheim canister on it. Last weekend I cleaned it. I was leaky when I put it back on the tank and I worked on it to stop this. And everything was fine.
 
About 4 hours ago I was sitting here having a bit of lunch and I could hear the return from the spraybar quite loudly which set of a red warning light. It is only that noisy if the water level is down and inch or more. It was, and that water was on the floor, under the flooring and soaking the carpet and pad under it. Looks to be about 5 - 6 gallons, maybe a tad more.
 
The carpet and pad were old and in poor shape. They now have been removed cut up and bagged for the garbage pickup tomorrow. The filter awaits my attempts to fix it. I need to rest a for a bit first. I am getting too old for this stuff.
 
What makes it worse is for the past 3 weeks our kitchen has been in our living room so they could take things apart to remediate mold and water damage. When the plumber puts the sink back in tomorrow, it will be done. So this is like the poison cherry on top of the cyanide sundae.

 

[LyraGuppi]

Aww, that does suck.

 

[Akasha72]

my worst nightmare ... hope you can sort it TTA

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Thank goodness I run a biofarm for cycled filters. I pulled a couple or Poret cubes and put them in the tank over night. I am getting rady to see if I can mend the problem with the canister. Unfortunately, Eheim not longer stocks the head gaskets for the Pro II 2026/2028. I was forced to order a couple via Ebay from the UK which should arrive in about a week to 10 days or so.
 
When they came to put the sink back in the kitchen today the old one could not be attached. It is a 54 year old model and the special connectors that held it in place were so rusted they could not be reused. So the old sink was jury rigged while we order a new replacement sink.
 
I am just happy to have the kitchen functional. For 3 weeks we had a fridge, a microwave and the outdoor grill. We used paper bowls and plates and what stuff had to be washed we had to do in bathroom sinks.
 
Now I am about to see if I can make that filter seal up. I had two old seals but one was useless as it dried up and cracked. This is a design flaw in that line of filters, the gaskets are made out of a material that doesn't like air. So its hard to buy and keep spares on the shelf as they can go bad. I hope the ones from the UK are usable. What annoys me is that Eheim makes products that last for decades and then they stopped making the part that is most likely to fail and cause a catastrophe. I have not had many parts go bad on my 12-13  year old filters. And those that did I could find a work around until I got a replacement.
 
Sorry for the rant but it made me feel a bit better.

 

[Ch4rlie]

Wow, you've been through a lot recently.
 
Sure hope everything will turn around for the better now.
 
Things can only get better

 

[TwoTankAmin]

It actually got worse before it got better. After ordering 2 new gaskets on Ebay from the UK, I decided to take a shot at getting the filter going again. Last year I bout several NIB Eheim Pro IIs and put them on the shelf for future use. I cannibalized one for it s gasket and got the filter back in operation. The problem was I forgot I had an inline heater on that tank and when I got the filter back up I discovered the tank was in the low 70s F. Normally its in the 82F range. So in went a 200w heater. even as the inline came back on.
 
All ended well and the filter is working fine and the fish seem OK as well.

 

[Alasse]

That seems fairly tame really.....
 
This year has been one sucky thing after another for me....one leaky filter would be a godsend honestly!!
 
Still, sorry to hear of your bad luck run TTA