Aquarium Messups

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Most of the older members heard my family's big mishap way back. It was classic. Thought nothing of some drips and splashes going down the outside of the tank during various operations but unknowingly they were seeping in to a cutout in the particle-board where a metal leg was attached to the top board of the tank stand. This caused the particle-board to swell up just a small about right in that general area. The lift from the swelling was just enough to finally crack the bottom glass of the tank (oh do I wish for the thick flagstone bases of the old days!)

I was sitting in the dining room and heard a water noise and somehow my subconcious suddenly told me something was wrong about that sound. I leaped up and rushed into my son's room only to have the fishkeepers worst nightmare confirmed. Water pouring down the stand from the tank and pooling on the floor. The whole family grabbed towels while I grabbed the bucket and big cup I always keep nearby. It was not a fun night to say the least.

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[Tolak]

Overfilling tanks, siphoning up fish, moving tanks & mashing fingers, you name it. Running cable for TV to a bedroom, drilling holes in the house above a 55 gallon was real fun, that tank got fed a fistfull of sawdust.

Most recently was creating a creek, again, coming from the fishroom. Got back from an auction after midnight, 109 fish between 27 bags that need to get into tanks. After switching around stock, as well as doing water changes while the bags were floating it was time to get them in tanks. This was a snip & flip acclimation at 4am, snip the top off of the bag, flip the fish into a net over a bucket, then flip the fish into the designated tank.

Of course I leave the fill hose hanging on a 55 gallon. I step on a plastic fitting, which has now been replaced with metal, it cracks big time, water is spraying. Instinctively I go to shut off the water, which is already off, while fish are in a net over a bucket. It takes me several seconds to figure that it is siphoning back out of the 55, lift the hose out, wait, get the fish in the net into their tank, wait lift the hose out....

Some days I think I use the mop more than any other piece of fishroom equipment.

 

[Mo1959]

Jeez. Is this what I have to look forward to. lol

 

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Lol, was up in Cleveland last weekend Tolak and had a moments thought that if it had been Chicago I would have messaged you to come for a tour of your fishroom. Might have been as close as I'll get to Chicago in a while though. WD

 

[OldMan47]

I think my most recent mess up was a drip acclimation I had going. It was not in the same room as me and I forgot it completely. Fortunately I was dripping a tank on the bottom part of my stand so it stopped before the fish in the tank went dry. Cleanup was a real pain though. The rug in the room spent a few hours air drying on the back deck and the mopping seemed to go on forever before I was satisfied that I just couldn't sop up any more water and the rest had to just finish drying.