I'm a moron

[wuvmybetta]

Uggh, I screwed up big time today. I came home from the store and I was unloading groceries, feeding the dog etc and I stuck the gravel vac in my dining room hex (42g) I gave the gravel a quick clean up and I left the vac in to syphon water out my window, I walked away as usual to let it do it's stuff (I do large water changes, about 50%) see where I'm going wth this...?

My daughter had a new PC game that she wanted me to install so I sat down and did that, the desk bettas were hungry so I went to defrost some food for them. Fed them and the giants.

*Sigh* by the time I made it to my hex to give them the leftovers I had completely forgotten that I'd started the vac, my angels and my eel were freaking out in about 3 inches of water. So basically I did about a 95% water change ,it's an established tank and very mildly stocked, thankfully I didn't do a terrific gravel vac or clean out the filter Everybody looks great.

So learn from my mistake...no matter how habitual you are...errors happen

 

[noop]

i have trouble concentrating on the water level in the bucket when i'm using my hand-held siphon. the fish are too distracting

 

[jams.alaskan]

I'm so glad that you and everyone else survived! EVERY time I fill my horse water tanks outside I overflow the same one -"oh I'll just do this one thing while it's filling" yeah right! It's terrible, I can't sit still for the 20 min per tank to fill but why I always let that one overfill is beyond me...

ALASKA

 

[snowyangel]

Wow wuv your quite the lucky one. Reminds me when i walked into my room to find my fish jumped out of bowl. He was laying still, almost dead, so i put him back in the bowl to make sure and he starting swimmign again. If I waited another 5 mins to walk into my room I'm sure he wouldn've died.
Glad to hear the fish all made it through

 

[cutechic]

Good to hear that the fish are fine

 

[Pointy_kitty]

i just did the same thing today, only the hose fell out of the bucket (i have a hand held syphon) the minute i left the room
i just went to answer the door and got distracted talking to my neighbour
when i came back the bucket was barely filled and there was about 8 gallons of water on my carpet!!!!!!!!!!
the puddle was 1/4" high on the carpet
i grabbed about 10 towels and started to soak it up!!!!!!!!
my dad came over like 10 minutes later to watch a dvd and he stept right over the soggy carpet, missing the puddle (and didn't even look down)
i was literally holding my breath
my dad is a nautzy when it comes to doing stupid thing ESPECIALLY when they involve water on the floor (long story i rotted his floor when i was younger by constantly leaving the door open when it was raining ) )
he would have really let me have it if he would have caught me rotting my own floors away!

 

[wuvmybetta]

I must say...it was quite a feeling when I first laid eyes on the tank.I have quite a few bottom dwellers (wormy loaches & a plec) in there but I don't think they even realized anything was going on

 

[OscarCichlid]

A friend of mine has a large tank with huge angelfish and a florida gar. He has many filters on it to keep it clear and one ont them is a fluval 304. Well one day the hose that brings the water from the canister back to the tank fell out of the tank. When he went downstairs his basement was flooded and there was only about 4-5 inches of water in the tank. It was horrible. His angels were on there sides and the top of the gar was sticking out of the water.

 

[wuvmybetta]

That's horrible and one of my worst nightmares. I have a canister filter with a outflow that is adjustable, the tank houses a big fish and I always worry that he'll bump it and cause the water to shoot straight up and drain his tank.Yipes!!!

 

[Pescado Guy]

Yes!! I think it's awesome that you siphon your water out the window. I do that all the time.

 

[G_Sharky]

Multi-Tasking is not a very good habit to get into

 

[wuvmybetta]

Multi-Tasking is not a very good habit to get into

Sadly...that's just me, I'm always doing several things at once. I'm usually quite nifty at it this was just one of those times...

So far everybody looks good,my plec is even out and about and he never does that

 

[freshmike]

That's kind of funny in a way........because I do the opposite....I walk away when I am filling them......darned python!!!

I have only overflowed 2 tanks though and not for very long....the 90 and the 33 in the bedroom )

Yeah, Julie will tell you how talented I am at multi-tasking.......errrm, not very?

 

[waterwatereverywhere]

My tank once starting overflowing when I was away on holiday. It's got an undertank sump, and the pipe down from the main tank had got blocked, so the pump was just emptying the sump up into the tank - and from there onto the floor! Fortunately someone was at home and noticed it, turning the pump of straight away, and called the chap from the LFS. He came out, bless him, and discovered a large snail stuck in the pipe!!

 

[x-router]

I made the mistake of disconnecting my air pump from the air pipe but not removing the air pipe from the tank (which had an air stone on the end). I went out for the eavning and came home to find my tank had about 3 inches of water left in it

The water had some how started syponing!

Worst still my Betta was lying on a rock out of the water. I assumed he was dead I went about cleaning the mess and adding water to the tank and all of a sudden he lept off the rock into the water!!!! I didn't realize then that they could survive out of water for so long he must have been there like 15 minutes at least.

I was so relived that the whole flooding didn't seem as bad.