Well... I sure do love this hobby... but it sure can have its moments.
Wednesday I had to euthanise a 'too far gone' guppy.
Thursday night my power went off for about 20 minutes. I ran into the living room :nilly:with a flashlight to look at my tank, and was coming up with a plan to keep it warm when the lights came back on.:woot:
The bubbler came back on but no filter. It was dead. It had ceased to be.:nilly:
I have a Whisper filter that came with a 5 gallon minibow that I am going to set up as soon as I have a good colony of bacteria on some fluval foam I put in my existing tank next to my biofilter in the now busted filter. :idea:
I got the little Whisper filter out of the box, took out the little carbon filter bag, stuck my good biofilter in it, put the fluval foam in a media bag and hung over the side.
Had to take the tank lid off to hang the Whisper filter and lay the tank lid back down, leaving a gap, hoping and praying my two ADFs and snail don't get out of the tank during the night.:hypnotized:
Friday, while I was at work, my hubby went and got a new HOB filter for my tank :thumbsup:, a 10 gallon by the way.
I came home, got the new filter set up on the back of the tank, dangled the plug down behind the tank stand.
I unpluged the Whisper filter and left it in the tank, but sitting on this fake tree stump I have in there, and leaning against the back wall of the tank. I wanted to keep the biofilters wet until I could put them in the new HOB.
I got down on the floor to plug in the new filter. I have a powerstrip mounted up, for saftey, on the inside wall of the tank stand.
I plugged in the Whisper by accident, water started shooting out the back side of the tank as the litle Whisper started pumping away.
mg:
Water started pouring out the back, :22_yikes:hitting the wall, splashing behind the stand, all over the wires:22_yikes:, cords, air pump, power strip (even though it is mounted up high).
I quickly unplugged the dang Whisper!!
Water all over cords and plugs and electric things!!!
I reached for the switch on the power strip and and in my haste to turn it off I knocked a fluorescent light fixture, that was turned on, off of its mounts up underneath the stand. It fell across my arms and into the wet mayhem under the stand as I groped for the switch and turned off the power strip, expecting to DIE!!!:shocked:
Got up off my wet butt and ran to get paper towels and then bath towels.:nilly::nilly::nilly:
Water all over the place, even in the flourescent fixture that I had moved and had sitting beside the tank on the tank stand.:wall::wall:
Picked up the Whisper that I thought had all the water out of it and lay it over on a towel I had on my leather chair and poured about two cups of water all over my chair and the floor in an area that was not wet, until
that moment.:wall::wall::wall:
I needed to be leaving for work in the next few minutes, but had to frantically dry off cords, wires, air pump, and remove the power strip.:swear:
I had to find an extension cord to plug into a nearby outlet to plug all the stuff back in. :swear::swear:
First though, I went to a GFI outlet and tried the light fixture and the little air pump, after shaking them out and drying them off.
No throwing the little safety breaker thingy so I knew I would not electrocute myself or my fish by plugging everything back in.
Dry clothes, clean floors, dry off fish supplies, put biofliters in new HOB.
sigh............... :thud:
I love fishkeeping! Really! :grinyes:
Wednesday I had to euthanise a 'too far gone' guppy.
Thursday night my power went off for about 20 minutes. I ran into the living room :nilly:with a flashlight to look at my tank, and was coming up with a plan to keep it warm when the lights came back on.:woot:
The bubbler came back on but no filter. It was dead. It had ceased to be.:nilly:
I have a Whisper filter that came with a 5 gallon minibow that I am going to set up as soon as I have a good colony of bacteria on some fluval foam I put in my existing tank next to my biofilter in the now busted filter. :idea:
I got the little Whisper filter out of the box, took out the little carbon filter bag, stuck my good biofilter in it, put the fluval foam in a media bag and hung over the side.
Had to take the tank lid off to hang the Whisper filter and lay the tank lid back down, leaving a gap, hoping and praying my two ADFs and snail don't get out of the tank during the night.:hypnotized:
Friday, while I was at work, my hubby went and got a new HOB filter for my tank :thumbsup:, a 10 gallon by the way.
I came home, got the new filter set up on the back of the tank, dangled the plug down behind the tank stand.
I unpluged the Whisper filter and left it in the tank, but sitting on this fake tree stump I have in there, and leaning against the back wall of the tank. I wanted to keep the biofilters wet until I could put them in the new HOB.
I got down on the floor to plug in the new filter. I have a powerstrip mounted up, for saftey, on the inside wall of the tank stand.
I plugged in the Whisper by accident, water started shooting out the back side of the tank as the litle Whisper started pumping away.
mg:Water started pouring out the back, :22_yikes:hitting the wall, splashing behind the stand, all over the wires:22_yikes:, cords, air pump, power strip (even though it is mounted up high).
I quickly unplugged the dang Whisper!!
Water all over cords and plugs and electric things!!!
I reached for the switch on the power strip and and in my haste to turn it off I knocked a fluorescent light fixture, that was turned on, off of its mounts up underneath the stand. It fell across my arms and into the wet mayhem under the stand as I groped for the switch and turned off the power strip, expecting to DIE!!!:shocked:
Got up off my wet butt and ran to get paper towels and then bath towels.:nilly::nilly::nilly:
Water all over the place, even in the flourescent fixture that I had moved and had sitting beside the tank on the tank stand.:wall::wall:
Picked up the Whisper that I thought had all the water out of it and lay it over on a towel I had on my leather chair and poured about two cups of water all over my chair and the floor in an area that was not wet, until
that moment.:wall::wall::wall:
I needed to be leaving for work in the next few minutes, but had to frantically dry off cords, wires, air pump, and remove the power strip.:swear:
I had to find an extension cord to plug into a nearby outlet to plug all the stuff back in. :swear::swear:
First though, I went to a GFI outlet and tried the light fixture and the little air pump, after shaking them out and drying them off.
No throwing the little safety breaker thingy so I knew I would not electrocute myself or my fish by plugging everything back in.
Dry clothes, clean floors, dry off fish supplies, put biofliters in new HOB.
sigh............... :thud:
I love fishkeeping!
Really! :grinyes:
