Any Disasters???

[teddybear22482]

Ive had my tank up for about a week and Im such a worrier that Im waiting to get up one morning to be standing in water...lol. I was wondering how many people here have actually had thier tanks explode or come home one day to a river flowing from your house? Just curious as to how often it happens.

[Sk8r]

It's not too common. Used tanks are the biggest worry, because you don't know how they've been knocked about. Glass is a funny substance. One tap can proliferate a scratch into a crack up and down a whole piece: that's how you cut it, in the first place.

If you want to protect yourself against other accidents, be sure you have a hose clamp [plastic ones] everywhere a hose connects to a fitting. A hose coming off is one of the major sources of flood.

A stuck valve is another: it's why I'd rather bore holes to break a siphon than put a valve into a line. I just don't wholly trust them, considering our water is full of buffers and salts and algae and snails and slime and such.