Aquarium Horror Story

[r.barn]

Got good horror story for you.

Been messing with fresh new aquarium set-up, started filling with water for first time last night.
so had turn on tap water feed for first time in a while. All worked good no problems.

Wake up this morning about 6am take a piss, shuffling back to bed and hear this splashing noise ........
hmmm did I leave a faucet on ???

OH CRAP !!!! the tube coming thru wall for tap water feed had popped off and
I have an open faucet dumping water into the den for who knows how long .....

Water EVERYWHERE ...... get it cleaned up, thanking god for no carpet in there and that its "not too bad"

walk outside to throw away towels and half my front yard is flooded out and a small stream
heading down the street ....... YIKES.

Luckily (i guess) the wall where leak was backs up to garge and most of the water had been running under the wall
and out the garage, or who knows how much water would have been standing in my living room.

Must have been running half the night
Dont know whether to laugh or sit down and cry or start breaking shyt with a bat.

Nice, eh ?

[GasGuzzler]

That sucks. In this town I'd get a $400 water bill.

[r.barn]

My water bill is LEAST of my worries ............. lol

[mean05]

what kind of aquarium...fresh or salt? what size?

[r.barn]

48" X 24" X 18" deep - 110 gal fresh water.

Used to have pioson dart frogs in it but last one died couple
of weeks ago and decided to do fish this time.

Going to do lots of live plants with Co2 system with cool
dwarf west african cichlids and Discus.


First hardscape mock-up.

[mean05]

sweet sweet...i love aquariums as much as racing just havent had the money for both, i do have a 180 oceanic RR with africans in ithere at my shop i take care of but its just not the same as my reef tanks

[r.barn]

Havent ever done saltwater. Cool reef tank might be nice ....... someday.


Really enjoyed the Dart Frogs. Been keeping them for 10+years
but they are a lot of work and expensive to keep fed in live crickets.


Old terrarium set-up of same tank I had with the frogs.

[mean05]

damn nice setup....i have messed with them but not much...my reptile thing is snake..wish my ex wife would let me have some pics from when we were together

sucks but this is the only pic i have of my old tank...im searching the aquarium site though for more

[COWL327]

I used to have some oscars.....i think thats what they were...lol.Anyway..they got big! and they would jump out of the water for food.I could dangle some shrimp about a 8 inches above the top and they would jump up and take it from my hand.I loved those fish and my 2nd ex killed em....BEEEOTCH!

[ff_jeff]

Homeowners insurance should cover the damage. If there was any. Sorry about your problems.