Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 6:00 AM
My quiet deep sleep is rudely interrupted by the sound of a chain saw starting up and cutting at the palm trees outside my apartment.
This goes on for somewhere around an hour or so...
Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 8:00 AM
I hear what sounds like very loud banging on the walls or window of my apartment then I hear a very loud and distinctive sound of a very large piece of glass breaking and water rushing over a waterfall.
It takes a few seconds when I realize what the sounds were. I rush from my bedroom to the living room to see that my living room has been turned into a 60 gallon lake.
I look outside and there is no one anywhere close around and all the limbs/branches from the palm tree that had been cut off were in the trashcan outside.
Over the next 24 hours plus, I work on removing all the items associated with the fish tank out of the apartment - moving furniture around - and vacumning up water and cleaning carpet.
The place still smells a little "fishy" but for the most part it is all done.
So in a matter of a couple of weeks I spent around $1000 and now have nothing.
My re-exit from the world of aquariums has ended faster than my re-entry into started.
Thanks for all the help.
I'll have to write a separate thread of tips on how to guarantee disaster with aquariums that perhaps can be used to educate others so they do not have to go through what I just did.
My quiet deep sleep is rudely interrupted by the sound of a chain saw starting up and cutting at the palm trees outside my apartment.
This goes on for somewhere around an hour or so...
Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 8:00 AM
I hear what sounds like very loud banging on the walls or window of my apartment then I hear a very loud and distinctive sound of a very large piece of glass breaking and water rushing over a waterfall.
It takes a few seconds when I realize what the sounds were. I rush from my bedroom to the living room to see that my living room has been turned into a 60 gallon lake.
I look outside and there is no one anywhere close around and all the limbs/branches from the palm tree that had been cut off were in the trashcan outside.
Over the next 24 hours plus, I work on removing all the items associated with the fish tank out of the apartment - moving furniture around - and vacumning up water and cleaning carpet.
The place still smells a little "fishy" but for the most part it is all done.
So in a matter of a couple of weeks I spent around $1000 and now have nothing.
My re-exit from the world of aquariums has ended faster than my re-entry into started.
Thanks for all the help.
I'll have to write a separate thread of tips on how to guarantee disaster with aquariums that perhaps can be used to educate others so they do not have to go through what I just did.
I can't believe your tank just went out like that. Was there any type of garuntee? Did you have anyfish there? 
