First the Christmas tree in Week 15 and now the dang fish tank is leaking! When it rains, it pours. Hmmm… there’s a painful pun in there somewhere but I can’t find it.<\/p>\n
With 75 gallons of our little finned friend’s habitat threatening to flood the living room, it’s a call to act fast or face a much bigger problem.<\/p>\n
Step one: Start a siphon to relieve pressure before the whole shebang bursts like a bumble bee on the windshield leaving Nemo and his pals tragically homeless.<\/p>\n
Step two: Get the water off the floor before it has a chance to soak in and warp the hardwood. Fortunately this amounted to less than a gallon. A Waterblade and plastic dustpan was much faster than trying to find the wet-dry vac in all of the garage clutter.<\/p>\n
Step three: With just a single towel the floor is now completely dry! We left the towel to catch what was still piddling from the aquarium as we transferred our swimmers out of harms way.<\/p>\n
Fortunately there was a collection of old tanks available that happened to be cluttering up the garage (being a pack-rat paid off this time).\u00a0 Oh look… There’s my wet-dry vac under that old fish tank!<\/p>\n
Shameless Plug: Just about any Waterblade will do the trick for scooping up liquid in a hurry. We used the Shop Blade for the convenient handle and extra scoopability that makes it easy to use with a dustpan.<\/p>\n