The tank was full of bubbles and making lots of noises. Brandon was just walking inside when I saw all that happen, so I called him over to take a look at it.
He opened the doors on the bottom and a wave of water came out all over the nice rug I had bought and the carpeting in our living room. ‘TOWELS!” he yelled. “I need LOTS of towels!” He started unplugging stuff as fast as he could, as he tried to figure out what had happened. The birds are yelling, we’re yelling, the dog is barking, and all this water is gushing out from somewhere in the stand.
The sump was empty cause all the water was on the floor. We’re throwing towels on the floor, Brandon is throwing things out of the bottom of the stand and the birds are still yelling. The overflow pipe had mysteriously come undone and was pumping water out as fast as it could all over the inside of the stand and the floor. I ran and got the steamer which of course is in pieces, one of which is still missing. I did find what I needed and Brandon had run outside to get the wet/dry vacuum. Two vacuums going at once, we sucked up a TON of water and were still vacuuming it up an hour later.
Of course, the stand is slightly elevated with several sheets of plywood braced on wood so it’s up an inch or so from the floor creating a nice little cozy place for water to collect and sit there to rot the floor out of the house so we wind up having a 125 gallon tank sitting on the ground instead of in the living room. Brandon rigged up his racking cane to the shop vac with duct tape and ran it under the stand and managed to get a lot of water out that way. Luckily for us, before we put the stand in the living room, we put a sheet of linoleum down. Fans and two days later, the floor is still a little damp, but all our fish (all three of them),our corals, etc are doing well.
Anyone else have any horror stories like this one?
. Like you, luck I was there when it happened and did not get shocked or lose anything. 
Thaz why I got me a new wet vac 
