Disaster Strikes!

Agassizi

Agassizi

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Jun 21, 2009
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Hey y'all, so i found this blog a long time ago, dedicated to peoples disaster stories involving their tanks. I searched AC and maybe i missed it somewhere, but i found no such thread. So lets share our stories of heaters malfunctioning, tanks shattering etc and hopefully we can all have some laughs, and learn some stuff while were at it. ill start it off!

so where i live, every spring we have junk day, where for a day everyone puts their unwanted "junk" on the side of the road. Usually plenty of good tanks to choose from (haven't bought a tank in 5 years :dance: ) so about 4 years back, still being a huge newbie to the hobby i brought a 50 gallon home of the street and immediately stuck it in my bedroom. i started filling it up, and just when it was almost full, the bottom glass just shattered. 50 gallons of water on our new hardwood floor, ruined all of my books (tanks was on bookshelf) and all my junk hidden under my bed. needless to say i never made that mistake again :p:
 
I just drained and lined the tanks along the floor (its in the garage, put up some saw horses and hung lights over them (they are all planted). I'm going to take a closer look at the stand tomorrow and if the wood looks like its still in good shape and is dried out I'm going to put some support under it to level it back out and then put the tanks back on it.
 
good solution, also lucky, that couldve ended up pretty badly if say you had been away for a couple of days
 
i know this is a little off topic, but does keeping your tanks in the garage work well for you? where i live (vancouver canada) it gets pretty chilly, and ive always wanted to keep them in there, just was afraid the cold would overwork my heater or something like that.
 
When I first got into the aquarium business and got a 10g tank for my African Clawed Frog, I was mid cycle when I broke a CFL bulb in the tank (containing mercury) and had to go through the whole emergency protocol, save the frog, clean everything in the tank and start all over again, all while flipping out about the idea of mercury poisoning myself. lol Funny now, but at the time I felt like it was the end of the world. lol
 
had something similar happen, the first month or so into the hobby i had one of those glass floating thermometers, and i liked to pick it up, drop it and it would bounce to the bottom, and bounce back up. one day, i did it a little to hard. the bottom smashed on the gravel and all the mercury came out into the tank.
 
Agassizi said:
i know this is a little off topic, but does keeping your tanks in the garage work well for you? where i live (vancouver canada) it gets pretty chilly, and ive always wanted to keep them in there, just was afraid the cold would overwork my heater or something like that.
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Just insulate the crap out of it and it'll be fine. I'm in florida so I have the opposite issue lol.
 
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