Dumbest thing you've done in/to aquariums?
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w/c and gravel vacced a tank into a clogged sink flooding my bathroom and kitchen the kitchen celling was a drop celling and well it dropped ended up finding some broken joists tho f***in plumbers cutting them all up so I replaced those and put up drywall
long time ago i didn't clean a filter so it overflowed from the back of the filter. more recently i setup a small 3gal system for a hospital tank & for "fry" well to get it cycled faster i took out some plastic plants and water from my larger tank when siphoning water i got distracted by my lovely little girl walked away and forgot about it till she starts telling me +daddy water" i thought she was asking for water so i slowly walked over to find about 5-10 gallons of water on the floor! i guess i will listen a little more closely to my 3 year old from now on!
Also on a DIY CO2 setup i miss read my Yeast pack about the amount and put waaayyy too much yeast in creating waaayyy tooo much CO@ and caused MAJOR pH crash! down to about 6.2 from 7.2-7.4 range! only lost 1 otto! got lucky!
Also on a DIY CO2 setup i miss read my Yeast pack about the amount and put waaayyy too much yeast in creating waaayyy tooo much CO@ and caused MAJOR pH crash! down to about 6.2 from 7.2-7.4 range! only lost 1 otto! got lucky!
heater broke. i had it too far up during water change. it exploded when water came into contact during water change. 
Didn't know enough about cycling and added fish after two weeks of using Seachem Stability. Had an Ammonia spike that lasted weeks and fish didn't eat for 2 weeks. Thankfully they survied and I am learning more so hopefully my next tanks will be better started!
well my buddy when he was younger was doing his first water change and when the water went half way down the heater it started boiling the water!( he forgot to turn everything off)!
i left the hjose in my 180g reef for 4 days straight wthout noticint it and flooded my basement. the whole house was on top of water. killed everything obviousely
That was impressive electric yellow.
I set up a 180 reef not quite level. My roommate and I used to laugh at how the front of the tank was an inch below the back of the tank. He bought it and all the inhabitants when I moved. The front pane blew on him 6 months later and emptied the entire tank into the living room. It was set up for 2 years before that. He still gives me crap about it to this day.
All the animals survived though. About 100 coral colonies, probably 50 fish, hundred of inverts. He worked quick to save the animals first and then clean up. Glad I was 1000 miles away.
I set up a 180 reef not quite level. My roommate and I used to laugh at how the front of the tank was an inch below the back of the tank. He bought it and all the inhabitants when I moved. The front pane blew on him 6 months later and emptied the entire tank into the living room. It was set up for 2 years before that. He still gives me crap about it to this day.
All the animals survived though. About 100 coral colonies, probably 50 fish, hundred of inverts. He worked quick to save the animals first and then clean up. Glad I was 1000 miles away.
Just thought of another one.
My first reef tank was a 29 gallon. I was 18 and thought I knew a lot more then I did. I had button polyps, xenia, and mushrooms. About $500 in livestock. I was told that if I add buffer it will make the xenia pulse more. So I kept adding without testing the water. When my corals started to melt I realized something was wrong. I stopped adding drops to the test vile when I got to 60. Needless to say a dKH of 60+ can really melt some corals. Fish survived though, must have been like swimming through concrete the water was so hard.
My first reef tank was a 29 gallon. I was 18 and thought I knew a lot more then I did. I had button polyps, xenia, and mushrooms. About $500 in livestock. I was told that if I add buffer it will make the xenia pulse more. So I kept adding without testing the water. When my corals started to melt I realized something was wrong. I stopped adding drops to the test vile when I got to 60. Needless to say a dKH of 60+ can really melt some corals. Fish survived though, must have been like swimming through concrete the water was so hard.
