Habitat - Outdoor :: What a mess- Freak Pond Accident

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:31 pm   What a mess- Freak Pond Accident

So I walk out this morning and my pond is completely empty! Just 1 inch of water and Harvey sitting at the bottom. I immediatly thought "Oh great- it cracked". So we filled it back up so I could buy more time to get Harveys tank inside back together (I thought I had a few more weeks). I went out and while I was gone, I realized that the filter tilted over and the water cascade just pushed all the water out. Whew! Get home, water is still filled... no crack!

6 hours later, go back outside, pond is empty again. Filter fell over AGAIN. All summer everything was fine, and now all of the sudden, twice in 1 day. I'm guessing Harvey is knocking it over. So now the pond is pushed up out of the ground since all the dirt under it is overflowed with 250 gallons of water.

So I just filled it up half way for the night, and to give the dirt time to dry out and settle back down.

Has this happened to anyone else?!!?
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Post Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:14 pm   

omg!! sounds terrible!

well i haven't had anything that big happen, but i did have my filter break and it emptied my whole tank out onto the floor. i went to get a drink of water in the middle of the night..and man did i get some water!! i stepped into a huge puddle!
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:03 am   

That happened to me also- my canister filter cracked when I was trying to pull the latches down and it took a good minute and the whole tank was on the floor.

I forgot about that... thanks for reminding me. :)
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:34 pm   

That would suck! I can't wait until I get my tank!!!! 16 hours!!!!
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