mishaps that happened with your tank

Replacing my defective radion the other day and not paying full attention, bumped the replacement through the cutout of the canopy and straight into the tank....should have made that screen top a long time ago!!!
 
Do I go into detail about how I electrocuted myself twice the night I set up my 75 gallon with overflow box mishaps? How I managed to electrocute my arm by resting it on a light? Or one of the seven other times I electrocuted myself with that tank? Nah, that's not important. What about the time I knocked the hose off of my return pump, frying my camera I was using to take sump pictures? Nope, too costly to reminisce over. What about me having so much weight in my bedroom that floor started creaking in a ten year old house? Nah, I fixed that. Or the countless times I dropped a coral and almost shattered my glass in the ensuing rock slides? Nope, the glass never did shatter. What about the time that my brother drained a ten gallon tank of top off through my the floor and out of the ceiling when I was out of town? Or the two times that I forgot I was filling a bucket in the laundry room, as I too made it rain? Or how I incorrectly plumbed my RO unit and almost made my house's plumbing explode? Or the time I stung myself with a bristle worm and lost all sensation in my hand for a day? Or how I figured out that my light fixtures and tank's water form a complete circuit and shocked myself twice in five minutes, and then another three times the next day? How about the time that I was fragging some of my zoas, and one of them shot water over my safety goggles and into my eye, forcing me to spend the next 15 minutes in the bathroom washing out my eye? Nah, I don't want to bore you all.
 
Oh, I forgot to not mention dumping a cup of skimmate into my wall outlet! The whole tank went down...
 
Came home from vacation and the automatic feeder fell into the tank. The corroded batteries and wiring could have been in there for as long as a week. All the food instantly dumped in along with the assortment of chemicals. My sps were all either bleached or stressed. I am starting to see a little color come back, hopefully all the carbon and water changes will help!
 
Myyyyy goodness and you still have a tank

correct me if i am wrong, you are not married are you ? lol wifeys cant bear these many mishaps :) LOL

Funlad3 said:
Do I go into detail about how I electrocuted myself twice the night I set up my 75 gallon with overflow box mishaps? How I managed to electrocute my arm by resting it on a light? Or one of the seven other times I electrocuted myself with that tank? Nah, that's not important. What about the time I knocked the hose off of my return pump, frying my camera I was using to take sump pictures? Nope, too costly to reminisce over. What about me having so much weight in my bedroom that floor started creaking in a ten year old house? Nah, I fixed that. Or the countless times I dropped a coral and almost shattered my glass in the ensuing rock slides? Nope, the glass never did shatter. What about the time that my brother drained a ten gallon tank of top off through my the floor and out of the ceiling when I was out of town? Or the two times that I forgot I was filling a bucket in the laundry room, as I too made it rain? Or how I incorrectly plumbed my RO unit and almost made my house's plumbing explode? Or the time I stung myself with a bristle worm and lost all sensation in my hand for a day? Or how I figured out that my light fixtures and tank's water form a complete circuit and shocked myself twice in five minutes, and then another three times the next day? How about the time that I was fragging some of my zoas, and one of them shot water over my safety goggles and into my eye, forcing me to spend the next 15 minutes in the bathroom washing out my eye? Nah, I don't want to bore you all.
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I twice forgot to turn off the rodi in the bathroom when living above a commercial space. Lets just say the store downstairs experienced "rain". I owned up to it though and told the owner of the building, i did not get in trouble. Im so grateful to now live in a rented house, i have forgotten to turn off the rodi a couple times but now the unit hangs above my utility sink in the basement. water in the basement floor just goes to a drain and no biggie. I have dropped lights into water, once got a bacterial infection from the tank that resulted on a crater on my forearm(still have the scar to prove this) caused a rock slide that cracked the bottom of a tank, etc, etc... list is way too long.
 
One day I was siphoning the tank and noticed a strange thing in the tank....wait for it...my brand new led fixture completely submerged. I also found out the hard way what 60psi of water can do to a quarter inch open tubing, coated half the basement including my wood shop in water. It looked like medusa's head.
 
I have one of those cheap home depot water alarms next to my basement floor drain. It has gone off twice since putting my frag tank up in my workshop. Once was from the broken tank (about 5 gallons and the second was from a snail that I knew better than to put in my mineral fuge. He was perfectly weged in the drain of my DIY PVC overflow like he had done it intentionally (fortunately that one was only a gallon or two). It was a great lesson in immediately fixing problems (lack of screen) instead of assuming that "the snail can't possibly find that spot tonight. . ."
 
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