A story about refilling

[Mesna]

Well, awhile ago I was changing the water of my 280g FW that is located in my living room, and as you can well imagine, it takes a *bit of time. So I went to the kitchen briefly to grab a drink, took maybe less than 3 minutes. When I got back I had a roughly 1 inch flood working its way thorugh the room and moving on to the rest of th house, so I threw open the front door and hauled out all the furniture and the rug onto the front yard and started mopping water out of the house through the front door like a madman. To this day my neighbors probably think I belong in an asylum, with a stream running out of my door and my furniture all over the yard Anyways what it turned out to be is that the hose I was using to refill the tank had dislodged and so all the water was spilling directly onto to living room floor.

So anybody else have some similar stories?

 

[Mesna]

please disregard the weird text before my writing lol, it starts at Well, awhile...

 

[dragonfish18]

yea...it happened the same way...except my main tank is in my kitchen and i threw everything out the sliding back door only + was it was all on tile floors but i most definatly know wer your comeing from

 

[jlsmonkey]

Well, I had a water change mishap as well. No furniture moving just a wet floor. I was vacuuming the gravel and I accidentally forgot where my bucket was so it sprayed on the floor. Wasn't to long before I noticed though.

 

[Mystus Redtail]

I has something similar, but less serious, happen in my basement, I drain my tanks directly down the floor drain, but as I was uncoiling the hose the end pulled out of the drain and followed me about 10 feet across the basement floor. I estimate I drained 30 gallons or so before I noticed that it was all just spilling into the middle of my basement. At least it's a concrete floor, but all of the garbage I had gravel vac'd was now on the basement floor, yum. So a lot of sweeping water, and mopping later I had the mess cleaned up. I had to work around all the fish tank stands and move furniture aroune as well. Live and learn I guess. I double check every time now before I begin draining.

 

[sumname]

I had the exact thing happen in my office. Luckily, we have really bad carpet and no one cared. In fact, when I was trying to soak it up, the rags I was using came back black. They have never cleaned the carpets in my office in the 8 years I have been here...

 

[benzjamin13]

Sorry to hear that. I was siphoning some of the tank water from my 75g to a 20g to house a new fish when I accidentally left the siphon in...it was a 1/4" I went to grab some lunch and came back to an overflowing 20g on my freshly professionally cleaned carpet