The closest thing was when Hurricane Charley hit back in 2004 and we lost power for over a week. Nothing survived...
Worst tank accident?
- Thread starter Thedaniokeeper
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i'm hearing stories of glass cracking due to the heater being too close to the glass??
watwat??
Anyway, my worst story would be when my baby jardini jumped out the 20 gallon in my room. I found it on the ground, probably a couple minutes out of water, and he survived XD
watwat??
Anyway, my worst story would be when my baby jardini jumped out the 20 gallon in my room. I found it on the ground, probably a couple minutes out of water, and he survived XD
Went out for a few drinks after work one night and came home to a flooded bedroom. the return hose on my Magnum 350 came loose from my turtle tank, pumped about 25 gallons into the floor. luckily we have tile on a concrete slab due to a nearby river flooding the house fairly often.
1st. airpump stops and back siphons a 35 gallon hex killing all the fish. o, did i mention it was on the second story?
2nd. baby sister messed with heater dial, killed flowerhorn, tiger shovelnsoe, rtc and rtcxtsn.
3rd new 280 gallon all glass hexagon tank sprung a leak. in one of the corners the silicone split about half way down(9inches) and 140 gallons went on the floor
4th left for three days, no one added freshwater to my 90 gallon reef. first the hundreds of stocks of xenia went then everything else.
5th left tanks in the hands of the parents when i went to college and they failed so bad my 10" gold flowerhorn and american alligator died. how do you kill an alligator you ask? feed it all thirty goldfish at once so you don't have to feed it again for a month. actually, we never had to feed it again cause its sides split open.
2nd. baby sister messed with heater dial, killed flowerhorn, tiger shovelnsoe, rtc and rtcxtsn.
3rd new 280 gallon all glass hexagon tank sprung a leak. in one of the corners the silicone split about half way down(9inches) and 140 gallons went on the floor
4th left for three days, no one added freshwater to my 90 gallon reef. first the hundreds of stocks of xenia went then everything else.
5th left tanks in the hands of the parents when i went to college and they failed so bad my 10" gold flowerhorn and american alligator died. how do you kill an alligator you ask? feed it all thirty goldfish at once so you don't have to feed it again for a month. actually, we never had to feed it again cause its sides split open.
they don't.wel i was 5 or 6 and we had a 55 gal tank full of colorful fish and one day i put one of my toys in it, something went wrong and they all died
In my 30+years of keeping fish it always seems that eventually something major happens where all the fish die either the whole tank gets sick or you over medicate and kill all your fish maybe a power outage or something. My current stock of fish I've only had for about a year now. Before that I had been out of the hobby for 7 years. The last fish I kept before this stock were saltwater fish. I was into reef tanks and fish only salt tanks. When my last salt fishes died I shut the tank down for 7 years before I got back into freshwater about a year ago.
The worst accident I witness was my friends 55 gallon plexi. During the last big Bay Area earthquake my friends 55 gallon plexi fell over broke in 3 pieces and flooded his apartment bedroom. We were both over at my apartment at the time. It took us over an hour to get to his place cause traffic was crazy. When we got there we saw water leaking into the parking garage below his apartment. There was so much water on the floor all his fish survived!
The worst accident I witness was my friends 55 gallon plexi. During the last big Bay Area earthquake my friends 55 gallon plexi fell over broke in 3 pieces and flooded his apartment bedroom. We were both over at my apartment at the time. It took us over an hour to get to his place cause traffic was crazy. When we got there we saw water leaking into the parking garage below his apartment. There was so much water on the floor all his fish survived!
i was useing a wet dry to drain a 20g it started over flowing so i unpluged it but it kept sucking by the time i got it out there was 15g of water on the floor
Just last night I was taking a finishing nail out of the wood finish under the tank. Too much pressure against the wood, which in turn cause too much pressure on the tank, and BOOM 40 gallons of water on the floor in less than 20 seconds. The worst part is that it was a very well established tank that was set up on a wooden stand and on hardwood floor. Only saving grace was that the tank wasn't upstairs.
I remember that I bought a used 50 gallon tank with stand, filters for $85. Three months later, the tank cracked and spilled 50 gallons of water on the floor. The whole tank was emptied to the floor in about 2 minutes. Luckily, I did not live in an apartment because that would have been serious water damage to the lower level.
Lessons learned is that be very cautious and things like this can happen.
Lessons learned is that be very cautious and things like this can happen.
