People do stupid things!!

We OFTEN flood our fish room. We put the water on to refill the 500L water drums and 'forget' that it is on. Needless to say, by the time we remember we walk into a swimming pool inside the granny flat where most of our tanks are. It has happened where someone, not me this time, put the water on before going to work and about 2 hours later suddenly remembered that they had not put it off, left work quickly and the granny flat entrance had become a running fountain of water moving out the door. On the plus side, the grass got well watered that day On the downside, you don't want to see my water account most months!

Another thing which often happens is that people accidentally knock the table where we have our 6 lots of brineshrimp hatching, often knocking down at least 2 or 3 bottles of hatched or almost hatched bbs - all over the floor! Then the problem is what to feed the new baby angels - luckily we have backup plans

 

I was showing my father-in-law how the magnetic glass cleaner works to get around corners. I had the magnet half out the water with me looking straight down on it. As it shot from 1 pane to the next it squirted a jet of water right into my eye:blink1:. Felt a royal 1d10t hehe

 

I was doing a water change on a 100L livebearer tank when my girlfriend called me from another room to go look at something. I came back and the lounge had a nice semicircle of water quickly emanating from the tank on the carpet. On the downside, it was parquet flooring; on the upside, we were replacing the flooring soon anyway.

One stupid thing I always like to point out is keeping fish in bowls or other containers that are not suitable for long term fishkeeping... (not guilty)

 

Most of us do stupid things in the beginning.

My first stupid mistake was not buying dechlore... not that it killed any fish, but it was still a stupid mistake to make.

 

A lack off knowledge is not stupid

 

No, I did know about the decholinator.

I've kept fish before (although I was an utter noob then and didn't know half the things I do now) and used it then, but I don't know what made me forget to get it this time round.

 

kicking over buckets when doing a water change........man that sucks especially if its new water thats been treated with expensive aquasafe!
lucky we have tiles though

 

Ive just burnt out 2 200watt heaters while doing a big water change. Its my 4th heater in 2 years and yet I don't learn. I'm so P*&*&% off at myself right now. at least a have a few spare but still. money down the drain

 

Hook up your heater through a float switch?

One hint for anyone with fishtanks (all of us) that will have floods every now and then (all of us) is to get a tiled floor and tiled skirting as well, in your kitchen tile the kickplates too so you don't stuff up the cupboards...

 

Rory, sounds like you are used to a mop and tiled kick-plates! lol!
Some better quality heaters, like Jaeger, switch off when the water level drop, I'm too scared to test this feature!
I also know what a 3m tank flood can do to a lounge, when you are out of the country!
These mishaps must be part of a learning curve!

 

Well last time the mop didn't help at all. Used a broom to try push most of the water out of the door. What's worse is I came down the stairs and it was fairly dark. As I stepped off that last step heard "sploosh!"

Those tiled kick plates have saved the kitchen twice now...

 

Just teach yourself to switch off all the power to the tank when doing any maintenance, then you also have to teach yourself to make sure everything is back on and running properly when you are done.

 

I thought i was clever and would use 2 siphons (1 long and 1 short) to drain the water and save half the time for water changes which takes approximately 15 minutes to fill a big bucket all well and good until u try and remove them one at a time and the 1 tube flies here and the other tube flies there with the water gushing everywhere in between.i learned my lesson now i put on some good music and wait patiently while my 1 siphon does the work.

 

would this qualify.
went to northgate with the mrs for lunch .her mom phoned her ,her baterry died ,gave her my phone ,after 5 mins got bored .so I went to the lfs .just planned on buying food (about 500bucks )but as fate had it .decided I needed a new light and ballast .hydrometer plants.etc.cool walked out the shop feeling chuffed with my new stuff.
got back to the wife ...and the sh^& hit the fan.thank you fnb in contact.she read the sms.needless to say i am banned from ngt currently and my card statements are now being audited as I apparently have a problem with spending money on my fishies.the wife seems to think it is some kind of an addiction i suffer from.

 

Dude... my wife has done EXACTLY the same thing to me... she's now taken over the monthly budget.. and tell me how much I'm allowed to spend on fish. She's reaching the point where she's going to give me a TASA time limit too. She feel I'm neglecting family time. LOL (Addiction--- definately a possibility)

 

You should see the wives of marine tank keeps when they find out what corals cost

 

yup yup yup
being the junkie she claims I am .I just use cash now .untraceable you see.

yes . I spoke to soon mabe .
was at idol marine this morning for salt and sand .duh i used my card !!!
dammit.I keep doing stupid things it seems .thanks for reminder Rory

 

Well, the dumbest thing I ever did was set up a tank with a sump filter and I placed the outlet pvc line about half down in the tank. I filled it and started the filter not realizing that the submersable pump pumps the wtaer to a certain level in the sump which over filled the main fish tank so I turned the system off to syphon water out to get the correct levels. By turning the pumps off and the outlet being so far down into the tank it syphoned water back to the sump through the pump which ended up all over the floor. Wife was not impressed.

 

I'm so glad Kattz will understand one day when I buy a ridiculously huge tank. We've definitely got a tiled fish room in mind for any future houses...

 

Dropped my fluorescent bulb, broke and fell in tank....yes it was on. Gave a few sparks and went mad. Turned it off, put a different one on, everything lived. Strange....