Almost disaster!

I had a near disaster today. I went down in the basement where my tank is today and noticed water dripping by my tank. My first thought was I had a leak because I couldn't see what was dripping just dripping. Walking over closer I noticed my light, which was running, was soaked and water was dripping down off of this. I opened my cabinet thinking a pump is shooting water up onto my light to find nothing. Finally I came to my senses and looked up. There it was a leak from the ceiling above directly on my running halide fixture. I didn't want to fry any equipment, so I unplugged everything from the wall and ran upstairs to see what was going on. Come to find out it's the waste water from the dishwasher right above.

I left the light off to dry and put a bucket on it to catch anything else that comes down. Hopefully my light will be fine.

After getting it all sorted and thinking about it more I started to realize how close I was to a hobby ending disaster. If I hadn't gone down and noticed it at the least I could of fried my light, if not burnt down the house. Thinking even farther I realize if my light hadn't been there I would of had a couple gallons of soapy water directly into the DT.

I feel lucky now even though I have some plumbing to do

 

wow, you got really lucky!

 

thats scary mike. coulda turned out ugly. but glad its all ok. hope youre not the stereotyped plumber with the crack. good luck with it.

guy

 

I'll wear a belt just for you

 

wow i guess u r lucky lucky it was running maybe the heat dried the water before it could do any damage wow be careful bro wth lol j/k somebody watching over uuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

At least it wasn't your tank leaking! Whew!

 

No kidding. I would of had to use it as an excuse to upgrade to a 40 breeder. That would of been terrible...wait a second! Where's my drill?!

 

Oh shoot, nevermind! Dang ceiling leak!!