Maybe this isn't the best hobby for clumsy people

[Deleted member 149562]

I have to wear either a sleeveless top or use a large freezer bag clip to hold a short sleeve out of the way while doing a water change. It is very embarrassing answering the door mid water change with a large bright blue clip holding a sleeve out of the way.

My postman's face used to be priceless when I opened the door to receive parcels with a plastic pinny and blue nitrile gloves on...and the occasional fish poo splat on the t-shirt

He is used to it now.....and even asks how the fish are doing

 

[Rocky998]

My mom gets upset "every now and then" when I do water changes

 

[Rocky998]

My postman's face used to be priceless when I opened the door to receive parcels with a plastic pinny and blue nitrile gloves on...and the occasional fish poo splat on the t-shirt

He is used to it now.....and even asks how the fish are doing

"He-heres y-your mail... I-I'm gonna run now... Far away"

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

My postman's face used to be priceless when I opened the door to receive parcels with a plastic pinny and blue nitrile gloves on...and the occasional fish poo splat on the t-shirt

He is used to it now.....and even asks how the fish are doing

Would be even better if you were holding aloft a gravel vac in a vaguely alarming manner....

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Would be even better if you were holding aloft a gravel vac in a vaguely alarming manner....

Nah....he would ask something silly like...

"erm....is that how you give a fish an enema?"

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

Oh yeah I don't even try to stop the water spillages during WCs anymore. I just put a towel down and deal with them after lol.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Now there's a word you don't see often anymore! My parents used to just call me cack-handed (I'm a lefty). That will be my defence from now on. "I'm not cack-handed! It's cruel to mock the maladroit".

I'm a lefty too

 

[Rocky998]

Wow... So I'm not the only freak out there
(I'm a lefty as well)

 

[Biancah76]

And never, ever, EVER, walk away from a tank filling if you are in any way prone to distractions. Especially important for large tanks as they take longer to fill.
Don't ask me how I know.

Don't I caught a tank just 3cm above the braces before it started flooding the floor earlier!

 

[Biancah76]

Oh yeah I don't even try to stop the water spillages during WCs anymore. I just put a towel down and deal with them after lol.

I have a designated fish towel on the tank cupboard door, not just for WC, at all times! I have a broken right shoulder though, probably shouldn't still be keeping fish! (I frequently pay friends for help with maintenance) I am particularly clumsy, once knocking a 40L trug of ( thankfully fresh) water off a stand and just watching it spread across the (especially fitted up the wall a bit) lino in tank room, spreading to not one but 2 adjourning carpets before I could get enough towels down, so now I keep a massive one at all times to use as an emergency "door stop" LOL

 

[Ridgerunner]

I’ve overflowed the bathroom sink while pumping out my tank. I’ve overfilled my tanks several times. My best was having a Cory cat jump out of the tank, land on to my head and flopped under the tank stand. I managed to get him out and back into the tank before he expired. Adventures in fishkeeping!