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After reading the AJC and all of its reports of flooding in the area, I know I can't be alone amongst club members who've experienced flooding in the past few days.
On Monday, my basement flooded with 2.5 to 3 feet of water. It's a finished daylight basement, which includes my fish room and the 250 gallon SPS and 150 gallon predominantly softie tanks that I keep. The flood waters filled the common sump that services both of my tanks, dumping all kinds of silt and debris into my sump. My return pumps for both tanks are external non-submersible Iwakis, and thankfully they shut down after being submerged in the flood waters, so I don't think too much of the flood waters were pumped into my display tanks, but those pumps are probably now destroyed. I've probably also lost my sequence pump running my MRC 6 skimmer, and my two Reeflo Darts running closed loops on each tanks. My chiller was completely submerged in the flood waters, and I'm worried that I might have lost that too.
Luckily, I have two of the 4 electrical circuits that service the tanks that are still functional. So I have a submersible mag drive pump running in each display tank, with the output pointed upwards, to keep some circulation within the displays. All my ballasts were mounted up high so they are undamaged, but because I lost my chiller, I'm only running VHOs, and not my MH lights. Most of my fish look OK so far, but about half of my corals are not looking so good and have retracted all there polyps.
I'm not sure how long its going to take to restore electrical circuits and replace the pumps I've likely lost. The **** insurance appraiser says he can't even get out here until the end of the week. Luckily I do have flood insurance.
Anyway, I gues I'm writing this so I don't completely lose it, and to ask if anyone can think of anything else I should be doing to minimize loses. TIA.
On Monday, my basement flooded with 2.5 to 3 feet of water. It's a finished daylight basement, which includes my fish room and the 250 gallon SPS and 150 gallon predominantly softie tanks that I keep. The flood waters filled the common sump that services both of my tanks, dumping all kinds of silt and debris into my sump. My return pumps for both tanks are external non-submersible Iwakis, and thankfully they shut down after being submerged in the flood waters, so I don't think too much of the flood waters were pumped into my display tanks, but those pumps are probably now destroyed. I've probably also lost my sequence pump running my MRC 6 skimmer, and my two Reeflo Darts running closed loops on each tanks. My chiller was completely submerged in the flood waters, and I'm worried that I might have lost that too.
Luckily, I have two of the 4 electrical circuits that service the tanks that are still functional. So I have a submersible mag drive pump running in each display tank, with the output pointed upwards, to keep some circulation within the displays. All my ballasts were mounted up high so they are undamaged, but because I lost my chiller, I'm only running VHOs, and not my MH lights. Most of my fish look OK so far, but about half of my corals are not looking so good and have retracted all there polyps.
I'm not sure how long its going to take to restore electrical circuits and replace the pumps I've likely lost. The **** insurance appraiser says he can't even get out here until the end of the week. Luckily I do have flood insurance.
Anyway, I gues I'm writing this so I don't completely lose it, and to ask if anyone can think of anything else I should be doing to minimize loses. TIA.
