T Rex aquarium springs a MAJOR leak

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I just saw a video on instagram posted 6 hours ago, of the round aquarium draining all over the tables and floor at T Rex. hope they were able to save the fish:worried:
 
Oh no! I really hope non of the fish was effected :( i wonder how they deal with these situations, wether they have back up tanks that they can accommodate the fish in while they fix the tank?
 
Sounds like they saved the fishes!

From the Orlando Sentinel.....

Huge fish tank bursts at Downtown Disney restaurant

Fish tank at T-Rex Cafe gushes water

By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel
10:48 pm, March 17, 2014
A fish tank broke at a Downtown Disney restaurant Monday, sending water gushing into the dining room at T-Rex Cafe and people jumping up from their seats, witnesses said.

Kate Wallace, 28, of San Diego and her family were sitting about 20 feet from the tank when she heard "a big noise" as the water poured out in a stream.

"There was a lot of commotion," she said. "The whole section just sort of went crazy.

The kitchen staff and other employees rushed over and tried to hustle nearby diners out of the area, but 10 or 15 people remained to snap pictures and video on their smartphones, Wallace said.

A few posted them on social media, showing the water flowing out of the circular aquarium and onto the floor of the dinosaur-themed restaurant.

"It was chaos," one man posted on Facebook.

Witnesses said employees scooped up the fish in a net as the water level dropped quickly and brought out trash cans and long-handled squeegees. Wallace, who is on vacation, praised the staff's quick response.

"The staff — they were doing the best job that they could," she said. "It was craziness. Just kind of people freaking out. It's not something that you see very often. How do you respond to that?"

Wallace, a freelance public-relations professional, said it appeared as though a seam opened up on the tank. Some people were sitting directly below it and must have gotten wet, she said. There were no reports of injuries.

An employee who answered the phone at the restaurant said a manager told her to refer questions to corporate headquarters. No one answered the phone at Landry's, the Houston company that owns T-Rex Cafe.

Wallace and her family had just ordered when the aquarium erupted. They ended up going elsewhere to eat.
 

I guess the guys at ATM (Tanked) will be called in to repair one of their "babies". I'm guessing it's them because in their previous opening credits, they showed the "octopus aquarium", but I'm not sure if they worked on the aquariums in DTD, Kansas City, or both.
 














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