Worst tank accident?
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Various ones...
overflowed a storage tank in the living room and wrecked the carpet..
Slipped over backwards whilst carrying two full buckets to a tank in the bedroom... Water went mainly over me.
Left tank filling several times and forgetting (always the same tank though oddly) Every time blowing a light start unit. 4 starter units gone that way.
Having hose attached to mixer tap and using both taps, cold water pressure goes up hotwater side and overflowed header tank
Having hose attached to mixer tap and using both taps and a slight air leak in the hose caused trapped air in the hotwater system.
Let a non-fishkeeper help do periodic clean out of nanoreef tank. Normaly takes 2 hours. Took 9 hours and many thing were unhappy.
overflowed a storage tank in the living room and wrecked the carpet..
Slipped over backwards whilst carrying two full buckets to a tank in the bedroom... Water went mainly over me.
Left tank filling several times and forgetting (always the same tank though oddly) Every time blowing a light start unit. 4 starter units gone that way.
Having hose attached to mixer tap and using both taps, cold water pressure goes up hotwater side and overflowed header tank
Having hose attached to mixer tap and using both taps and a slight air leak in the hose caused trapped air in the hotwater system.
Let a non-fishkeeper help do periodic clean out of nanoreef tank. Normaly takes 2 hours. Took 9 hours and many thing were unhappy.
A couple years ago my 125g sprunk a leak without warning, along the bottom seal.
It was about 11pm one night and I sat down on the couch to watch a little TV before going to bed, and looked over at the tank. The water level was about 1-2" lower than it was earlier that day...
"Strange," I thought. Then it dawned on me....my heart sank.
I jumped out and flung open the cabinet doors of the stand....water gushing everywhere, and of course, all over the power strip. Without thinking I immidiately hit the kill switch on the power strip (lucky I didn't get zapped).
I was real lucky. I remembered my neighbor/friend nextdoor had an empty 55g tank he didn't have set up. I called him as I was siphoning water outside and he brought over the 55g and I set it up on my coffee table and filled it w/ water from the 125g.
Spent the rest of the night breaking down the 125g and drying the carpet. I didn't lose any fish (had at the time a 10"+ Oscar, 6" jaguar cichlid, 7" pleco). I had them in the 55g for a full week before I could buy a new 125g (I didn't even want to consider re-sealing it (as I have no experience doing that) and I didn't even want to think of the possibility of another leak, so I just bought a new tank).
I still don't know what caused the leak, but I have a pretty good idea. The first year the tank was setup, it was on a custom stand (was setup in front of an old fireplace that didn't work) so it had to be a custom built DIY stand. Well the tank didn't sit perfectly level, and I think that factored in to it leaking. After the first year I moved and set the tank back up, but with a store-bought stand this time (since the custom stand was only useable at its original location). I think it warped slightly over time which eventually led to the bottom seal giving out.
It was about 11pm one night and I sat down on the couch to watch a little TV before going to bed, and looked over at the tank. The water level was about 1-2" lower than it was earlier that day...
"Strange," I thought. Then it dawned on me....my heart sank.
I jumped out and flung open the cabinet doors of the stand....water gushing everywhere, and of course, all over the power strip. Without thinking I immidiately hit the kill switch on the power strip (lucky I didn't get zapped).
I was real lucky. I remembered my neighbor/friend nextdoor had an empty 55g tank he didn't have set up. I called him as I was siphoning water outside and he brought over the 55g and I set it up on my coffee table and filled it w/ water from the 125g.
Spent the rest of the night breaking down the 125g and drying the carpet. I didn't lose any fish (had at the time a 10"+ Oscar, 6" jaguar cichlid, 7" pleco). I had them in the 55g for a full week before I could buy a new 125g (I didn't even want to consider re-sealing it (as I have no experience doing that) and I didn't even want to think of the possibility of another leak, so I just bought a new tank).
I still don't know what caused the leak, but I have a pretty good idea. The first year the tank was setup, it was on a custom stand (was setup in front of an old fireplace that didn't work) so it had to be a custom built DIY stand. Well the tank didn't sit perfectly level, and I think that factored in to it leaking. After the first year I moved and set the tank back up, but with a store-bought stand this time (since the custom stand was only useable at its original location). I think it warped slightly over time which eventually led to the bottom seal giving out.
I haven't really had a serous tank incident... yet.
But a few weeks back I was filling up one of the two 25g tanks that my dad gave me. The tanks are from the 60's. I had just resealed them both and was filling one up inside after successfully doing an outside leak test. There was a clay flower pot inside the tank and on the 2nd or 3rd bucket the current from pouring slammed the pot into the glass just as I spilled a little water on my shirt. Put two and two together.
*BOOM!* *shirt getting wet*
My heart skipped a beat and I think I aged a few years that day. Im glad it wasn't the tank. I guess the aquarium gods were just having fun that day.
But a few weeks back I was filling up one of the two 25g tanks that my dad gave me. The tanks are from the 60's. I had just resealed them both and was filling one up inside after successfully doing an outside leak test. There was a clay flower pot inside the tank and on the 2nd or 3rd bucket the current from pouring slammed the pot into the glass just as I spilled a little water on my shirt. Put two and two together.
*BOOM!* *shirt getting wet*
My heart skipped a beat and I think I aged a few years that day. Im glad it wasn't the tank. I guess the aquarium gods were just having fun that day.
This didint happen to me but this two morons I knew:
This guys had this big oscar in a 30 gal tank. They didnt buy that oscar being so big, they brought it when small but soon outgrew the tank.
But that wasnt the worst. They had his canopy that didnt match the tank size. One day one of this guys by accident bropped the canopy inside the tank with the light on and the big oscar...R.I.P.
the guy tryed to pull the canopy out of the water 
and we recieved his dose of electric power aswell.
The whole thing ended up in a sad oscar fish soup
and a hand burned....
Never put electric devises over your tanks unless you make sure they are set 110% safe.
Cheers.
This guys had this big oscar in a 30 gal tank. They didnt buy that oscar being so big, they brought it when small but soon outgrew the tank.
But that wasnt the worst. They had his canopy that didnt match the tank size. One day one of this guys by accident bropped the canopy inside the tank with the light on and the big oscar...R.I.P.
the guy tryed to pull the canopy out of the water and we recieved his dose of electric power aswell.The whole thing ended up in a sad oscar fish soup
and a hand burned....Never put electric devises over your tanks unless you make sure they are set 110% safe.
Cheers.
I was doing something to my younger sisters tank a few years ago (cant remember what) and forsome reason that i cant remember i had her favorite swordtail in a bowl on the new island in the kitchen we were renovating. Any ways there was a hole in the wood where the outlet would go. Just my luck the swordtail jumped out of the bowl and straight in the hole. I started freaking out thinking of how there would be a rotting fish under the new island. but luckily since part of it was raised for eating, the hole was only a few inches deep and i was able to reach the fish. i pulled it out and it was covered in sawdust, but still alive. it died 3 days later. i told my sister it was just "old" and she flushed it.
My marilius overpower my lousy tank partition n one of them kill the other ..
its always the case when the one that being killed is the one that were more beautiful...
well, my fault...life goes on...
and my Emperor got a taste of Juve marilius...yummy...
its always the case when the one that being killed is the one that were more beautiful...
well, my fault...life goes on...
and my Emperor got a taste of Juve marilius...yummy...
Well I have not one but many tank accident's from being electrocuted so bad the power in the whole house went out to crash's heater's putting out stray volt's pumps making stray volts. Being stung some 15 time's by lion-fish and 3 time's from a scorpion-fish I'm sure you all seen my eel bite picture. I have flooded my fish room several dozen time's even worse I flooded my clothes ( long story ). I cleaned protein skimmer once and dropped the cup and it splashed into my mouth thus swallowing all that crap and getting a bad bacteria infection. Drank so much tank water I think I have grown gill's but after all that and even more stuff I'm forgetting I still love my tank's and glad I can enjoy them each and everyday.
mr.reef24
mr.reef24
too many rocks = cracked 30 gal in the middle of the night and i have had a heater explode and anothere crack for no reason
