Fishroom mishaps!

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

I figured this would be a good place for people to post their screw-ups in their fishrooms or tanks!
My last mishap was posted under Heyguy74's post about It's been a rough two weeks.
Anyone?

[mack74]

There have been many but heres a few.

Blew a circut at night and woke up to about 100 dead fish. I was really mad as I lost losts of nice fish.

I have drained a tank completly while doing water changes and came in to the fish flopping on the gravel. No losses here as I caught it in time.

Numerous water spills while cleaning tanks.

[cwnaturescapes]

overflowed a sump and lost a about 40 salt water fish ...it was a bad day

[ChrisG12887]

forgot i was filling up a tank, and it overflowed and i paniced and almost busted my @$$ trying to turn the water off.....also had an incident where i forgot to turn the heater off during a wc and the freakin thing popped and was smoking, thank goodness i had unplugged it quick enough or else the fish and or i wuda been electrocuted!

[phillyofish]

had 3 40 gallon acrylic cubes setup on a sump system. each was connected via pvc. one of the seams burst. luckily i had shut off valves on each and was able to shut it down before too much water soaked the rug. it was in the basement so i had to rent a shampoo machine and a dryer.
i lost my trust for acrylic tanks.

[EMTBMIKE]

MY infamous $1600 water spill. Damn wood floors.

[Zippo]

135 blew a seam, saved the discus but most of the tetras croaked,

[dunk]

I can't count the number of times I have overflowed water filling a tank after a change. Those are the suck.

[Artie]

I knew I wasn't the only one. Too many to list !!!!!!!!!! :grhair:

[Sharpfish]

I had a 55 gallon that housed 6-3" congo tetra's, and groups of rainbows (bosemanni, Goyder river, turquoise, herbertaxelrodi, Bedotia geayi, and ornate) equalling 24 fish. I left the cap off of the hang on heater. One of my moronic cats walked across the back of the tank and stepped on the heater adjustment knob and spun it somehow. This cranked the heat up and off the thermometer chart, giving me a tank of smelly bouillabaisse ( fish soup). For some reason, "I hated that particular cat!"

[emartin]

My BIGGEST mishap was this one: http://forums.eastcoastcichlids.org/showthread.php?t=818

But I had another....after I came home from my first trip to Atlantis back in September I was finishing up cleaning up all my tanks and was working on my 265g but fell asleep while refilling it...well I was later woken up by my older sister and found I was sitting on a chair surround by probably 50gallons of tap water all over the wood flooring that overflowed from my sump.... Well it took over an hour and maybe 100 towels to clean it up but thankfully the wood panels thanks to gravity finally settled back down and are no longer warped...at least not nearly as bad... :roll: :lol:...

Lets see.... Oh yeah, last July I dropped a 70lb boulder when I was redecorating my 265g about 1.5-2ft on the bottom glass pane....luckily the eggcrate and about .25" of sand spared the glass!!! The egg crate shattered though and I had to replace it though...and it's $11 each :(...

~Ed

[Haplee]

My best (worst) fishroom mishap would be a few months back. I was doing a water change with the python and forgot to remove the metal sink stoper from the sink. The sink overflowed and ran into the NEW cabinets. Don't try this one at home!! My wife was not amused.

[AlishanAS]

I dropped a rock on my toe and broke it. That's about it.

[phillyofish]

Tom...did that happen in the fishroom?

[AlishanAS]

Tom...did that happen in the fishroom?

Yes.

[joe_jaskot]

I dropped a rock on my toe and broke it. That's about it. You poor little baby. Does your tootsie still hurt? LOL!

[chris1932]

My list is long.

Figured I would let the drip system water change my 150 gallon long for a few days and save me some time, thing is you need to open the surface skim overflow valve when you do that. Went to the fishroom in the morning to find a river and a dog hair covered weathered loach. Took the loach over to the sink and rinsed it off threw it back in the tank. Over the next two weeks all its fins fell off and it looked REALLY bad. Fish dissapeared for a few weeks and reappeared with new fins.

I spill as much water as I change.

I cant count how many heaters have popped on me, I now use only Ebos. The suction cups are terrible but you can use the heater as a dart.

Flatpacks of bloodworms stink when you forget to put them away

I lost a pound of blackworms one day, three days later I followed the stench to a box they fell in. Amazing that they smelled right through the bag.

While cleaning the Discus tank an Amano shrimp ran up my arm and scared me so bad I fell off the bucket I was standing on, onto the cement floor tailbone first. Dragged the power compact fixture with me, lucky for me I broke its fall.

[Heyguy74]

I knew I wasn't the only one. Too many to list !!!!!!!!!! :grhair:


LoL. You name it I've probably done it.

[joe_jaskot]

My biggest blunder in the fishroom was getting the first tank. After that it was all downhill. Had my share of leaky tanks, water spills, cooked fish, power failures, suicide jumpers, serial killers, etc..

[AlishanAS]

Had my share of failures, suicide jumpers, serial killers, etc..

And that's just in Joe's immediate family....

[phillyofish]

That's wrong.....Joe where is your comeback?

[fischfan13]

It was about 1975.
I had a ten gallon and five gallon set up on an iron stand. In the room I was tossing around a football...ya know, laying on the floor and tossing the football up in the air and catching it. Well one time I turned in Johnny Unitas (QB from the 50's, 60's and 70's for you youngins) and threw the ball hard into the ceiling. The ball ricocheted off the ceiling and hit a standing wooden coat tree which fell right into the ten gallon, crushing the glass on one side.

[EMTBMIKE]

It happened again. While I was doing a water change at my grandparents house. My grandfather stepped on the hose connectors of my python. Which caused them to brake.I didn't realize what happned until my feet were wet. I was able to clean it up before he came back down.

[YoungAquaticPhotos]

Chris's food brings back my old memory of last summer. I had a bag of pellets sitting on the end of my rack of 50 breeders and somehow I had knocked it off and on the floor under the 50's I had a 20 long with about 15 - 1.5" orange shoulder peacocks. Well I am guessing it was the next day when I opened the fishroom door it had a smell combo of dead fish and rotten food! Needless to say the food opened when it fell in and polluted the tank and the fish could not breath and died! What a mess it was!

[clos]

I also was doing a water change last night fell asleep and of corse flood the living room hall way have to replace the wood floor wife not happy lol

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

We're alway's one mishap from getting killed in our sleep, but we don't stop. True fishjunkies.:cold:

[fishbuddy]

This happened about two years ago. I use a 32 gal rubbermaid garbage can to declor my water I fill with a hose out of the kitchen sink, I was filling it up and my better half wanted me to go to home depot with her. As we pulled into the
parking lot, I realized that I had left the water running. After lifting up all of the
rugs (at lease it was a nice day) and I could take everything outside to dry.:sigh:
Since then she bought me an electronic kitchen timer that hangs around my neck when filling water.

[Flareside]

ok, here is something I am going to finally come clean on- kind of like therapy. Once I spill it, I may be able to sleep easier at night LOL.

I bought an adult group of dolphins- 1 male, 3 females. All about 6" or larger.

I put them in a 90 gal. Left them alone for a month, never any tank light on, just fed them some pellet food. At the end of the month, I did a 50% water change, cleaned filters, added ammocarb to further purify the water, and turned up the heater another 5 degrees. I was hoping to induce some spawning. I gave them some new protein-rich brine shrimp flake which they chowed- but some was getting sucked up in my newly cleaned filters (I over filter sometimes)

Anyway, next day I went down to feed them before I went to work. I lifted the filter syphon tubes and tossed in some flake than ran up stairs to get ready for work...see where this is going? Yeah, in my rush to get ready for work I forgot to put the syphon tubes back down. All day no air, water flow, filterization...I came home from work that night and found only one female had survived. I accidentally killed the others. Gave me a sick feeling in my stomach

[Longstocking]

I know this is an old post.... but it's still fun !


I've done a lot of stupid things...

But I think the worst is when you flood your friends basement. That was a big OOPS !!

[steve0199us]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with water spill issues!!! :neener:

I tend to amaze myself everytime I spill water... :spit:

For some reason it's hard to learn from these sort of mistakes. :crutch:

I've added a Hoover Vac and dehumidifier to take care of this in my fish room!

[s10jimmy]

I was doing water changes on my rack of fry tanks, to save on running back and forth to the sink I drain all of them and then refill . I knocked over a rock cave and and reached in to fix the rocks and my hand started to kind of burn . So I pulled my hand out , kind of puzzled I stuck my back in the tank and the burning started again. I did this 3 or 4 times ! To make a long story short , I cracked the heater when I filled the tank back up and I was getting zapped every time I stuck my hand in the tank , Duuhh !! :hat:

[AlishanAS]

I've never had a mishap with water changes. I've had enough problems with leaky tanks, stuck heaters, overflowing filters and water conditioners that did not perform well leading to a kill off.

[AMBUSHPREDATOR]

I was doing small waterchanges on all my tanks when I got sidetracked with family stuff. Since I only dropped the water about 3" I wasn't worried about it and figured I refill them the next day. However we had a short power outage and the HOB on one of the tanks drained dry and couldn't restart. When I got home from work all 24 2.5" KACHESE TROPHEUS were dead, not one survived. Now I never leave tank's low and have at least one Bubble-up filter in each tank just in case.