Becareful with your python!

[NJ Devils Fan]

Before, I kind of jinxed myself. I was changing the water in my tank and I was thinking about making a topic on here asking what was the most wet their floor got from their fish tank or something like that. I was getting ready to fill up the tank, so, I get the water to the right temp, then close the valve by the gravel tube. I place a paper towel over the sink so that the water didn't spray everywhere. I start walking back to my tank with the gravel tube in hand when the hose connected to the valve bursts off and water flies everywhere; walls, cabinets, stove, ceiling, even as far as the top step by my front door, about 15 or so feet from where it burst off. I run to the sink on the wet tile floor, nearly fall and kill myself, and shut it off. I couldn't believe what had just happened. So, ok, I start cleaning everything and it's ok. So, I fill up the tank and start rolling up the python hose. I am by the sink just about to unhook it when I hear this loud crash. I shat my pants and turned around to find that a picture on the wall that had been there since we moved in over 13 years ago called "the calorie gallery", which had a list of a bunch of foods and their calories, had fallen. The glass completely shattered, but the picture itself is fine. I think I'm gonna have to sue python products for a 200 gallon tank complete with 20 bags of flourite, 5 rena filstar xp3s, and anything else I want.;) ;)

[SimonWoodstock]

Haha, thats a pretty good story.

[JSchmidt]

I've done that, too. The Python isn't made to take high pressure. I was fortunate; it blew the Python sink attachment off and the water went into the sink. Much better than a blowout a the other end...

Jim

[anonapersona]

I never use the shutoff anymore, after blowing a large hole in the substrate the second time I used it (why isn't there water flowing out of the hose, oh, this valve is shut -- oops)....what a mess, at least it didn't blow water out of the tank.

I usually put the end in the tank, with a heater holder suction cup thingie to hold it in the tank where I put it, then run to the sink 3 rooms away to turn onthe water and run back to be sure the water is in the tank, not on the floor.

Sometimes, I just put the hose into the 18 gallon bucket I drag aoround the house and let it flow there, then shut off briefly to move the hose into the tank, but even that short shutoff makes for a blast when I open the valve.

[edit] and, of course, having said that, today during waterchanges, that hose fell out of the tank twice doing it that way! Once after draining but the hose was still in the tank, I was out of the room and the towel on the floor caught most of it. Again while filling a different tank, but I was right there, that time, fortunately!!

[superjohnny]

My personal favorite (which I've done more than once now) is to start filling the tank and then start something else and forget about it.

Wife: "Um honey, what's that water noise?"

(not-so-super) Johnny: "OH ****! Baby get me a towel FAST!"

:D

[ianjoe]

I was using my python to drain the water out of my tank, but for some reason the drain in the sink was closed. Needless to say, by the time realized what was happening the sink was overflowing and i had 2" of standing water on the kitchen floor. It took weeks to get that old aquarium water smell out of the kitcken. The wife was really happy about that one ;)