So a bit is over apparently,
tonight I was playing around with my new filter, the tubes were still super long (its 11:30pm) so I was like "yea ill cut them to make them shorter, and just easier to handle" SO I grab the scissors, go to the filter, get a half full of water five gallon bucket put it near the outflow of the filter, I start to unscrew the adapter thing, and some water comes out, im thinking, ok, well its coming out because there is some water still in this area, so its coming out, coming out, then it stops. I unscrew the whole adapter and all the sudden, water starts GUSHING out of the filter, NON STOP, ALL OVER THE FLOOR, IM GOING APE SHI*, so I am thinking wt* do I do. I quickly try to aim this 10lb canister filter, that is spraying water now EVERYWHERE, into the five gallon bucket, now im on a time limit. The bucket was already halfway full. So im thinking "Maybe I didn't un plug it" by the time I thought that I had about 30 seconds before it overflowed again, so I yank the cord out (ik, dangerous) from behind the tank, wasn't even plugged in. Im thinking "alright im screwed, what in the hell do I do" I couldn't bring all this equipment to the bathtub (about 30ft away) because if I did, water would be in the hallway, and all over. The five gallon bucket at this point has began to overflow, under my bed, under the tank, in the cabinet, all over my room floor there is now about 1/4" of water. (thank God we have vinyl floors). So I try to get a towel and plug in the hole where the water is coming from, didn't work for 2 seconds, to strong current. So I just YANK everything connected (this is where I go in to full retard mode) to the tank, water goes everywhere, im soaked, my cat for some reason is soaked, my fish are soaked. The water kept gushing out for a second then it stopped... I fell down and sat in the now 1" thick water covering my floor. Take a deep breath, and run as quick as I can (I tripped and fell LOL, looking back that part was hilarious) and grab about 16 towels and just throw them all over. After I cleaned up the HUGE mess, the filter was in the bathtub, I was still invigorated. And the tank was 1/2 way empty. So about 32 gallons came out of the tank.
My error, simple, it was the fact that the inflow was in the tank, and it was siphoning.
fml.
