Dont drink and fill...
- Thread starter Wulfonce
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ouch!! one thing I noticed today lol when I set my 180G up i did no rinse the gravel, was wondering why my water was always brown despite a massive amount of purgien oh well hopefully if I start to use the gravel vac I should be able to get all the dust out! dam drinking always want to rush stuff or get too into something and end up breaking it or doing something dumb xD
Before I had the fish room. I over flowed a 220gallon for who knows how many hrs while I was sleeping 3feet from the tank. Lot's of shopvac and fans to fix that one.
Now I have a resivoir and just overflow that from time to time. LOL.
Now I have a resivoir and just overflow that from time to time. LOL.
I love this
Makes me feel better that other people have had major problems while working on tanks. My biggest oops came on my first waterchange ever with my brand new python, had just sucked about half the water out of tank and was going to start filling tank back up. Wife asked, "is there anything we have to do to reverse the flow?" no i said, just get water to right temp and close valve at sink to reverse the flow. So she did.... About 3 seconds after she closed the valve the reverse water pressure caused the hose to pop off the suction tube and come flying out of tank. I grabbed the hose as water was spraying everywhere trying desperately to stop the flow screaming TURN OFF THE WATER!!!!
When she did the floor was wet, the ceiling was dripping, the cable box on our entertainment center was SIZZLING, and our 4mo old 42" flat screen was soaked. After drying out for 3 days cable box was fine. Had to buy new tv tho as warranty didn't cover water damage. Needless to say after that we are ALOT more careful
And i always take suction tube OFF of hose before filling tank.
Makes me feel better that other people have had major problems while working on tanks. My biggest oops came on my first waterchange ever with my brand new python, had just sucked about half the water out of tank and was going to start filling tank back up. Wife asked, "is there anything we have to do to reverse the flow?" no i said, just get water to right temp and close valve at sink to reverse the flow. So she did.... About 3 seconds after she closed the valve the reverse water pressure caused the hose to pop off the suction tube and come flying out of tank. I grabbed the hose as water was spraying everywhere trying desperately to stop the flow screaming TURN OFF THE WATER!!!! When she did the floor was wet, the ceiling was dripping, the cable box on our entertainment center was SIZZLING, and our 4mo old 42" flat screen was soaked. After drying out for 3 days cable box was fine. Had to buy new tv tho as warranty didn't cover water damage. Needless to say after that we are ALOT more careful And i always take suction tube OFF of hose before filling tank.
My problems always come from when I'm multitasking during a WC. I've overflowed a couple 5 gallon buckets on the carpet, but my worst was when I was using my aqueon water changer... I've hooked two hoses together to make it 75 feet (by putting one over the other, super gluing it, and taping the connection with packaging tape), and during a refil (because I left the water pressure on but closed the valve at the syphon end 
) it popped and started pumping water from the faucet to our carpeted hallway... 15 gallons later on a floor that was 3 feet wide I'm out there with a shop vac and cleaning the walls, oh and I've flooded the kitchen once with that system when I didn't take the drain cover out
) it popped and started pumping water from the faucet to our carpeted hallway... 15 gallons later on a floor that was 3 feet wide I'm out there with a shop vac and cleaning the walls, oh and I've flooded the kitchen once with that system when I didn't take the drain cover out 
A HORROR STORY!!
A few years ago, my wife and I were getting ready to take a motoring trip from our home in Winnipeg to Florida. We were planning to leave mid afternoon on a Friday but would be heading off to work until then. Just to get a jump on readying my fish room for my absence for the 2 weeks, I did some early morning water changes and then decided to fill up a 100g water storage container. I put the hose in the tank with the intention of removing it when full. It did not happen that way. I got distracted by a phone call, and needless to say, forgot about the running hose. It was at 7:30 am. that we left for work. I arrived home at about 2:30 that afternoon, turned the lights on and went downstairs. The first thing that I noticed was that the floor (brown shag carpet) looked really dark. When I stepped onto it, I realized that it was absolutely saturated with water. Then the sickening reality hit home. The water had been running "full on" for 7 hours, Unfortunately the floor drain was on the exact opposite side of the basement from my fish room, so the water had flowed across the whole finished basement for 7 hours. Armed with my wet-dry vac, I started to suck up the water. Two hours later, by the time my wife arrived home, I had made virtually no progress in the clean-up. You might be wondering if divorce proceeding were begun at that time. NO. I have an extremely understanding wife. We decided to leave the basement disaster in the hands of my poor sister-in-law (who should be nominated for sainthood) and get in the car and head south. Irresponsible you say? Maybe, but in the capable hands of my sister-in-law, the clean-up was accomplished by her calling a janitorial service. This team of specialists had our basement cleaned up and dried out in a week. I have been much more careful since that episode.
A few years ago, my wife and I were getting ready to take a motoring trip from our home in Winnipeg to Florida. We were planning to leave mid afternoon on a Friday but would be heading off to work until then. Just to get a jump on readying my fish room for my absence for the 2 weeks, I did some early morning water changes and then decided to fill up a 100g water storage container. I put the hose in the tank with the intention of removing it when full. It did not happen that way. I got distracted by a phone call, and needless to say, forgot about the running hose. It was at 7:30 am. that we left for work. I arrived home at about 2:30 that afternoon, turned the lights on and went downstairs. The first thing that I noticed was that the floor (brown shag carpet) looked really dark. When I stepped onto it, I realized that it was absolutely saturated with water. Then the sickening reality hit home. The water had been running "full on" for 7 hours, Unfortunately the floor drain was on the exact opposite side of the basement from my fish room, so the water had flowed across the whole finished basement for 7 hours. Armed with my wet-dry vac, I started to suck up the water. Two hours later, by the time my wife arrived home, I had made virtually no progress in the clean-up. You might be wondering if divorce proceeding were begun at that time. NO. I have an extremely understanding wife. We decided to leave the basement disaster in the hands of my poor sister-in-law (who should be nominated for sainthood) and get in the car and head south. Irresponsible you say? Maybe, but in the capable hands of my sister-in-law, the clean-up was accomplished by her calling a janitorial service. This team of specialists had our basement cleaned up and dried out in a week. I have been much more careful since that episode.
7 hours! LOL! I am surprised your basement did not turn into a swimming pool lucky there was a drain down there!
Fortunately I've only had a couple close calls but I can't say enough how much i HATE the ESPN ticker. I'll be sitting back watching ESPN while doing a WC and I KNOW I should go check it because it's close to the top and I'll wait out the commercial to watch the next thing on the ticker because I can't miss the next topic coming up. Worst part? I have DVR........
I've come back to the tank literally about to start dripping from top. I pray it'll never happen but I know if it does it's because of my own stupidity.
I've come back to the tank literally about to start dripping from top. I pray it'll never happen but I know if it does it's because of my own stupidity.
I was caught out BIG TIME once...
Filling my old 5ft'er up after a wc - using the garden hose. The door rings and it was a courier here to collect a parcel to deliver. My wife had not printed the label off (the courier was way earlier than what was booked) which had the address, details etc. So i chatted with the guy at the front door until my wife had printed the stuff. Of course this just HAD to be the day when the printer starts to play up (god i hate printers) so a long story short i came in 10 minutes later to find half my living room covered in water. Not only had the hose overflowed the tank but then decided to fall out the tank onto the floor and continue to directly hit the fireplace with water straight out the hose.
Our water pressure is great - which is a good thing if your washing the cars or working outside but not so good when your hose grows a mind of its own and decides to attack your living room.
All in all a lesson learned! But god knows i've came close to it happens again lol
Filling my old 5ft'er up after a wc - using the garden hose. The door rings and it was a courier here to collect a parcel to deliver. My wife had not printed the label off (the courier was way earlier than what was booked) which had the address, details etc. So i chatted with the guy at the front door until my wife had printed the stuff. Of course this just HAD to be the day when the printer starts to play up (god i hate printers) so a long story short i came in 10 minutes later to find half my living room covered in water. Not only had the hose overflowed the tank but then decided to fall out the tank onto the floor and continue to directly hit the fireplace with water straight out the hose.
Our water pressure is great - which is a good thing if your washing the cars or working outside but not so good when your hose grows a mind of its own and decides to attack your living room.
All in all a lesson learned! But god knows i've came close to it happens again lol
