The worst day EVER.

[pmoyniha]

I jsut need to vent, and perhaps someone here will understand my frustration. My day began with 10cm more snow than expected. This meant that my mother would be 5 hours late picking me up from University for the winter break as she got stuck behind snow plows. Since I would not be able to attend to them in 2 weeks I felt it neccessary to move my fish home with me adn set them up in an empty aquarium I had at home. 50 gallons is twice what they are used to so why not I figured. So I cleaned the tank out, found a sturdy stand to put it on, filled it up and put on the filter (I was using filter media and lots of gravel from another tank, so I had a precycled tank so to speak). Then I floated the fish in bags in the water, who were already pretty stressed out (the harlequins were white!) and let them get used to their new home. Then I heard it. At frist I thought that I was fooling myself, but then instinctively I grabbed ahold of the tank as the front pane of glass pulled away from the tank. Yes thats right, as the front pane of glass pulled away. luckily it only started with one side, but I had a feeling it was going to spread. But how do you empty a tank while holding it together? Picture it. Well, I started yelling and eventually my mother came, and emptied the tank while I held the glass together. She only had a small pitcher so this took the better part of half an hour. In all I estimate 20 gallons went on the floor and 30 went down the drain. The fish, are now in a 5 gallon tank. Thats it, the whole story.

 

[abudakos]

Oh mannnn!
Perhaps Santa will get you a new home for your fish.
Apart from that, are you a York student?

 

[wuvmybetta]

What a terrible,awful ordeal, I hope that everything goes well from here on out

 

[Sinuhe]

Oh, wow, that sounds awful . What did you do with the 20 gallons that ended up on the floor?

 

[Landlocked]

That sounds horrible! Are you and the fish all right?

That must have been really tiring, holding the fish tank together for nearly half an hour. Do you know why this happened?

 

[Alien_spawn]

Gowd and I thought my Fluval 304 Blowing up on me over the weekend was bad

Hope everythings okay now for you

 

[pondfreak4365]

That is a really bad day pmoyniha

I hope the rest of your vacation goes more smoothly.

 

[kev]

Another of sods laws in the fish section.

Your tank will never crack/leak until you put a fish in it!!

I hope it all works out alright? Are the fish OK?

 

[rsz]

crikey! i hope my tank never does that...

 

[ste2k3]

I know how you feel, my tank flooded the other week. hope everything works out.

 

[mike777]

Oh sorry to hear! sounds like an awful day so are the all the fish ok???

 

[pmoyniha]

An update:
thanks for all the kind words. I appreciate it. Apparently my brother had used the tank to store drying pottery in for about a year and did not tell me. He is a professional potter. As it turns out something in the process breaks down silicone and well, that doesnt help the glass to stay together. To say the least all of the towels in the house were used to clean up the water and the carpet had to be pulled up because it is a hardwood floor underneath and would warp if left to its own devices (who carpets over hardwood anyways???). I hadn't yet let the fish out of the bags I used to transport them, so other than the stress of being moved about a lot during the clean up they seam ok. My Rasboras are still almost entirely white except for the black triangle, no red at all though. All the fish in my sig. in the 20 gal are now in a 5 gal. so I am working on a temp home, if not a large tupperwear container. The "old" tank is now going to go to a friend who builds aquariums as a side job who will put it back together, so it's not a total loss as the glass did not break.

abudakos: No I go to the Univeristy of Guelph.