In keeping up with PUNISHER VETTE

[Lady Hobbs]

I was in the middle of taking out a couple buckets of water from my newly setup 55 when my neighbor stopped over. I took the end that goes in the bucket and just tossed it in the tank and went to chat with her.

After half an hour, she goes to leave and I notice water in the hallway. Yup! The tube come back out of the tank and about 53 gallons were on my bedroom floor! The fish had so little water they were laying sideways in the tank, the pumps were running dry and the heater was red hot. I don't know if it went into my neighbors apartment yet. I've heard no screams coming from there!

Then I look in my other 55 gallon tank and see my little male Firemouth has been killed! I have one small male that is very, very mean and he's the one I suspect. Altho both the same size, the remaining one is just meaner than a junk yard dog. I wouldn't mind having a couple more females but I can't tell the difference in them. I have one male and one female now, both paired with other firemouths, and they look identical and are the same size. One male and one female so I may just leave well enough alone and get no more.

[Ryuu]

Sorry to hear that ='(

[Rue]

So sorry about the fish!

And all that water! OMG! Did you manage to get it cleaned up?

[Nautilus29]

wow I lost about 2g of water once and it was a nightmare, I cant immaging 50g more!!

[Wild Turkey]

Oh man, that amount of water can really do some damage, do you have a wet vac? Hope you didnt have to sop it all up with towels...

[xoolooxunny]

I agree with turkey, hobbs. With all those fish tanks and having someone below you, you should have a shop vac!!

[NickFish]

WHOA! Emptying almost an entire 55g would be terrible! I freak out when I drop my 5g buckets!

So sorry to hear about your losses, hope everything works out ok.

[smaug]

Im sorry about that piece of bad luck.What a mess.How do you even begin to clean up a mess like that?

[robnepper]

Boo Hiss!!

[The Wedge]

What a bummer...well I hope your week ends on a beautiful note :)

[cocoa_pleco]

all i can say is what a crappy week, J lost his oscars, i broke my leg, and now this

[jbeining75]

Hmm sorry for the loss lady..... Alot of aggressive fish problems on the forum lately....

[MandyL]

Oh man that is a LOT of water! Hope it didn't cause any permanent damage!

[Dixie]

A[Only Registered Users Can See Links.] I'm so sorry about the mess and your firemouth Lady Hibbs. You'll have to tell us about cleaning up all that water and how the tank equipment and fish are doing after the water getting so low. Hope everythings ok.

[Incredulous_Ed]

Well this sucks! How did you get the water out of the carpet?

[PUNISHER VETTE]

good try. i'm not even going to say some of the other stuff i do as it'll probably just get me banned for being such an idiot.

[Halelorf]

good try. i'm not even going to say some of the other stuff i do as it'll probably just get me banned for being such an idiot.

haha. The other week I was changing sponges on my canister filter. I took the plastic clamp off the output tube and forgot about. 4am the hose came off the spray bar and started spashing water all over me. That was a perfect alarm :hmm3grin2orange:.

[Lady Hobbs]

Let's just say that I jumped from the shower this morning and then remembered I didn't have one single towel left to dry myself with. Not even a %$(*&#@ dish towel! I used every towel (and I have tons) to soak up the water yesterday. Had to strip my bed, as well, because the bedskirt and bedspread were wet half way up. (The water didn't raise that high but the material sucked it up.)

I moved my loaches from the firemouth tank last night so one of them doesn't end up dead, as well. I may have to tell that small one Adios!

Fortunately, these apartments are all ground floor! I can walk on the floor today without the water swishing up over the top of my shoes and have 3 fans going on it. Filters and heater still work.

[nanaglen2001]

Ouch roughly 200 litres.....Thats pretty bad. I hope you dont have a wooden floor or laminate or something like that, and that you have been fast enough to mop up the water.

Get yourself something like a room drying machine, I mean an equipement that helps to get rid of dampness in walls and so. Otherwise it can be quite expensive. Lets hope the water didnt kreep into the walls. I really cross my fingers.

[sailor]

Sorry to hear of the big mess LH, and the loss of your firemouth. Shop vacs can be life savers. Maybe you should put a bath towel in one of those glass cases with a sign "Break in case of an Emergency"

[Algenco]

Sorry to hear of the big mess LH, and the loss of your firemouth. Shop vacs can be life savers. Maybe you should put a bath towel in one of those glass cases with a sign "Break in case of an Emergency"


Good one Sailor!!

[MandyL]

Let's just say that I jumped from the shower this morning and then remembered I didn't have one single towel left to dry myself with. Not even a %$(*&#@ dish towel! I used every towel (and I have tons) to soak up the water yesterday. Had to strip my bed, as well, because the bedskirt and bedspread were wet half way up. (The water didn't raise that high but the material sucked it up.)



Haha you made me LOL on that one! What did you end up using, toilet paper? :hmm3grin2orange:

[jphonger]

sorry to hear about your misfortune :(
that is a HUGE ordeal to go through.. I can only imagine...
:11:

[sandy_n]

So sorry to hear about the flood of 2008! lol I'm glad everything got taken care of though. And I know just how you feel about not having any towels clean.