about two months ago i was doing a water change and my dwarf puffers started getting sucked up in the intake so i turned it off and pulled the python out the tank and i lost one of my puffers couldn't find itt so i search my room and cant find it. well the other day im cleaning my room and lift up my dresser and bam dried up dwarf puffer (thats why my room smelled like fish huh)
stupidest thing you done with your fresh or saltwater fish......
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The other day I was feeding my silvers. I cut up tilapia fillets in strips...No I didn't cut myself 
. After I took the tank lid off I was holding a strip of tilapia talking to my pops. All of a sudden my biggest silver(20"+) jumped over a foot out of the water and grabbed the tilapia right out of my hand. Pops was like --"Did he get ya?"...
!!!!! No he didn't get me but it was very close. I felt his barbells brush my hand--he was very close to grabbing my thumb.. Now I'm a little more careful while feeding.
---Chris
. After I took the tank lid off I was holding a strip of tilapia talking to my pops. All of a sudden my biggest silver(20"+) jumped over a foot out of the water and grabbed the tilapia right out of my hand. Pops was like --"Did he get ya?"...!!!!! No he didn't get me but it was very close. I felt his barbells brush my hand--he was very close to grabbing my thumb.. Now I'm a little more careful while feeding.---Chris
I put too big a return pump on a predrilled 125 once. I figured the split in the return was going to cause considerably more head loss than it did. Wet carpet.
so I drained the tank, and moved it across the room, got a steam cleaner and had at the carpet, then ran a dehumidifier in that room for a few days, then moved the tank back, set it back up, filled it back up, and ran it with the new pump. works awesome. So I turn the pumps off so I can work on a baffle in the sump and don't realize that the person who owned the tank before me glued the siphon breaks closed in the return. I remember thinking, wow, that water level looks really low. Then I heard water cascading from somewhere. (the sump) I had no idea wtf was going on, or how to fix it. I was in full panic, invisioning 125 gallons of water in my downstairs neighbors living room.
Something in my brain said "turn the pumps back on, it worked when the pumps were on" so I did. Then I figured it out. Wet carpet.
drain, clean, repeat.
so I drained the tank, and moved it across the room, got a steam cleaner and had at the carpet, then ran a dehumidifier in that room for a few days, then moved the tank back, set it back up, filled it back up, and ran it with the new pump. works awesome. So I turn the pumps off so I can work on a baffle in the sump and don't realize that the person who owned the tank before me glued the siphon breaks closed in the return. I remember thinking, wow, that water level looks really low. Then I heard water cascading from somewhere. (the sump) I had no idea wtf was going on, or how to fix it. I was in full panic, invisioning 125 gallons of water in my downstairs neighbors living room.
Something in my brain said "turn the pumps back on, it worked when the pumps were on" so I did. Then I figured it out. Wet carpet.
drain, clean, repeat.
