Mini Home Disaster

When Ad returned home from his overseas trip in the early evening, he discovered that our bedroom was semi-flooded!

Yes, semi-flooded! with salt water from our marine fish tank :(

For marine tanks, we need to remove the surface contaminants using a surface skimmer. So this gadget will pump water into a column, creating a mini-tornado effect and churn out lots of bubbles which traps those surface contaminants. Ad asked his marine fish buddies and found out that the skimmer is suppose to be filled up with greenish grimmy dirt after a while.

So after 2days of having 5 fish, 3 crabs and 1 lobster in the tank, the surface skimmer still appears clean, he pumped up the water pump to churn out even more bubbles in the aim of making the tank ultra clean.

So when the room was flooded, we guessed that the pump might have overworked and caused a huge tornado of water to flood the skimmer (container) therefore flooding our bedroom.

I had hidden all my snoopy puzzles under the bed.... they got wet! (thank God that I was pretty kiasu when I kept them under the bed, I double-wrapped them with good quality swedish plastic bags - from ikea hee... also because they were the biggest bags that I can at home).

Our bed frame closest to the tank also got soaked in salt water and is showing some signs of stress... eeks. If one day, u find me sleeping on the floor, u know why....

so I rushed home from school, picked up my Ad (who has spent more than 1 hour cleaning up the mess and re-mopping the bedroom floor zillion of times to get ride of the salinity) and zoomed off to a marine fish shop to get more sea water for our fishy.... Lucky for our fishy, the tank still had slightly less than half a tank of water. So they all survived!

YIPEE!

At night, after 5 rounds of mopping, the bedroom floor still feels quesy.... and the seams are all WET! *sad* *sad*

In the morning, we can see salt crystals along the seams of my parquet floor =(

so after another 2 rounds of mopping, finally the floor feels normal again. Heng ah!