Tank disaster..
I bought a 4 foot tank on ebay recently, I now use this to keep my "Heinz 57" mollies in. This tank now lives in the back room, replacing two 80 litre ones. (my main fry tank and juvenile liberty mollies in the other).
The two 80 litre tanks were moved to our bedroom to join a 50 litre tank which has one of my breeding pairs of sailfin mollies in it.
Anyway, the good lady of the house decided that two of the tanks would look much better on a nice oak table that we purchased from a certain Swedish furniture store. I decided that I could probably squeeze that extra tank on the end of it. We bought a larger version of the same table we already had...which originally had one of the 80 litre tanks on it.
Can you guess what's coming yet??
I spent a day shifting the 3 tanks onto this table, combining the tank moves with the weekly partial water changes.
Bear in mind that our bedroom is in the loft conversion.. Buckets of water get very tiring when carrying them up and down stairs repeatedly!!
Can you guess what's coming yet??
I was woken up saturday morning by what I thought was very heavy hail on the velux window in the roof. The next thing I heard was a **really** loud bang and being showered by warm water.. Yes, the table had collapsed, water **everywhere** and a large number of fish all over the floor. The wife was swearing at me.. as I was trying to pick up fish in the nuddy! ... " ******* to the fish!... get the ******* water sorted!! " and other choice phrases!!
It was emergency bucket time... (thank you Asda... £1 a bucket.... I've got loads!). Water running down the stairs, running through the light fittings and (mains powered) smoke alarms... The landing has a hard surface.. The wife slipped on the water soaked surface and took a very nasty tumble at the bottom of the stairs. This resulted in very nasty bruising to her back and "lower back". Thank goodness it was nothing more serious.. potentially very nasty indeed!
It took a couple of hours for us to mop up the water and rescue as many fish as possible. It took a good half day to properly clean the room. It was amazing exactly where I was finding tank plants and weed!. I was also amazed that I found several mollie fry still alive after several hours under the bed, the tv unit and even the floor standing lamp. There was virtually no water for them to survive in at all!
At the end of the day I had to replace 73 litres of water and lost only 20 or so fry/juveniles. There was no significant damage to the tanks or other equipment so I count myself as quite lucky. It could have been so much worse!
The mother-in-law was visiting this weekend... I was "devastated" that I coudn't spend any time with her on saturday ;>) I'm agnostic but sometimes I think there really is a God!!
Finally, I've had all of the "tiddler" jokes from the extended family, although others would be appreciated!
My wife says we should return the debris of the table back to the store, but she is so embarrassed that this was caused by too many fish tanks that she would rather I said we were doing something else on it!!
Moral of this story: Too many tanks spoil the table.
Regards,
Bodge99 (aka soggy Bob)
I bought a 4 foot tank on ebay recently, I now use this to keep my "Heinz 57" mollies in. This tank now lives in the back room, replacing two 80 litre ones. (my main fry tank and juvenile liberty mollies in the other).
The two 80 litre tanks were moved to our bedroom to join a 50 litre tank which has one of my breeding pairs of sailfin mollies in it.
Anyway, the good lady of the house decided that two of the tanks would look much better on a nice oak table that we purchased from a certain Swedish furniture store. I decided that I could probably squeeze that extra tank on the end of it. We bought a larger version of the same table we already had...which originally had one of the 80 litre tanks on it.
Can you guess what's coming yet??
I spent a day shifting the 3 tanks onto this table, combining the tank moves with the weekly partial water changes.
Bear in mind that our bedroom is in the loft conversion.. Buckets of water get very tiring when carrying them up and down stairs repeatedly!!
Can you guess what's coming yet??
I was woken up saturday morning by what I thought was very heavy hail on the velux window in the roof. The next thing I heard was a **really** loud bang and being showered by warm water.. Yes, the table had collapsed, water **everywhere** and a large number of fish all over the floor. The wife was swearing at me.. as I was trying to pick up fish in the nuddy! ... " ******* to the fish!... get the ******* water sorted!! " and other choice phrases!!
It was emergency bucket time... (thank you Asda... £1 a bucket.... I've got loads!). Water running down the stairs, running through the light fittings and (mains powered) smoke alarms... The landing has a hard surface.. The wife slipped on the water soaked surface and took a very nasty tumble at the bottom of the stairs. This resulted in very nasty bruising to her back and "lower back". Thank goodness it was nothing more serious.. potentially very nasty indeed!
It took a couple of hours for us to mop up the water and rescue as many fish as possible. It took a good half day to properly clean the room. It was amazing exactly where I was finding tank plants and weed!. I was also amazed that I found several mollie fry still alive after several hours under the bed, the tv unit and even the floor standing lamp. There was virtually no water for them to survive in at all!
At the end of the day I had to replace 73 litres of water and lost only 20 or so fry/juveniles. There was no significant damage to the tanks or other equipment so I count myself as quite lucky. It could have been so much worse!
The mother-in-law was visiting this weekend... I was "devastated" that I coudn't spend any time with her on saturday ;>) I'm agnostic but sometimes I think there really is a God!!
Finally, I've had all of the "tiddler" jokes from the extended family, although others would be appreciated!
My wife says we should return the debris of the table back to the store, but she is so embarrassed that this was caused by too many fish tanks that she would rather I said we were doing something else on it!!
Moral of this story: Too many tanks spoil the table.
Regards,
Bodge99 (aka soggy Bob)
sorry to have a good laugh at your misfortune but I couldn't help it - it's the way you tell it - oh my gosh what a nightmare! It's the one thing that I have plenty of bad dreams about... tanks bursting, fish everywhere (even flying around the room in some dreams LOL)
