What's the worst thing you've ever dropped in your tank?

[Pistol Peet]

Tiny little BB from my lighting hanger kit

 

[Pistol Peet]

@DWP I second that dropped a fuge prime in my sump

 

[KorD]

Dropped my glasses in the tank.. took them off because I need bifocals to see up close while reading. Took me about an hour to find them.
the clownfish was pecking at them because they were too close to her nem.

 

[Conchman]

I feel bad, just the dry side of a cleaning magnet, testing syringe and occasionally the net lid slips in a bit..compared to some I am getting off lucky, I work in foods, guess I treat it as an open product zone...

 

[Leemcg]

Evil female clownfish.

 

[HuneyBear]

OK, you win the award for longest list... AA battery, nerf bullets and car keys ?!?!? My car keys are - supposedly - fully waterproof, but I'm not game to try !

Between my wife and nephew I don’t know whose worse around tanks. She’s guilty of a few of the items and is still a danger. Now that he’s a teenager and understands more he is not much of a worry. When he was little he would play in the tank room, and curiosity took over occasionally.

 

[jda]

I had a room mate in college set a bucket of pine sol mopping water on the top of my tank... it spilled into the tank... not all of it but about a gallon. My corals and fish really suffered, but I did not lose much over time. He felt awful and saw it as a sign to never clean again.

I put in a black tang once that tried to eat every polyp off of all of my SPS. The worst part is that I was warned that it was a LPS eater, but I risked it anyway.

 

[Hermie]

a frag with aiptasia on it (non quarantined frags)

 

[T_BONE]

Yellow tailed Damsel!!! :mad:

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

I never dropped anything into the tank myself, but my autistic son dropped an entire bowl of potato chips and who knows what else -into the tank.... Made such a mess that I had to break down my setup, take all the fish back to the LFS, clean everything of oily potato chip mush, and set up new again.

 

[BirdGuy21]

I dropped a small screw in the back chamber of my AIO...took a few weeks before I realized it was in there. Fishing it back out wasn’t fun either, haha.

 

[bigjgmac]

My bank account.

Man, I was going to say nothing, until I read your response. Mike drop. Walk off homer. Game over. Very nicely done!

 

[NigelRichardson]

A hole roll of toilet paper

Ugh huge mess

View attachment 1854912

I know I shouldn't laugh.... but....

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I've dropped lit lights into the tank at least twice. They go dark pretty fast as the GFCI trips. lol

 

[BZOFIQ]

Remote controls are the bane of my existence... They ALWAYS go missing in our house (though thankfully never in the tank - yet). I always tell my kids that when I rule the world, remote controls will be 24 inches square, and glow-in-the-dark, so - hopefully - impossible to lose...

Found some photos to show....

 

[Bfragale]

Found some photos to show....

View attachment 1938547View attachment 1938548

Hey you found the remote!

 

[Attreui]

I found my apex display floating in my sump once. Still works after taking it apart and drying it!

 

[Brett S]

This one wasn’t me, but I used to work at a company that repaired computers. One of our clients was Sysco, the food service company. Their drivers carried laptops at the time and often accidentally damaged them. The best was a laptop that I got with a note that just said “Fell into lobster tank.” I opened it up, but there was so much corrosion everywhere that the laptop was a total loss.

 

[revenant]

I dropped a can of cat food (Fancy Feast) in my mixing station like two days ago... I am not sure if that qualifies though lol.
... but I have had my air pods fall out from time to time while whipping around and I was working on the tank while talking so I was starting to connect the dots on that situation.

 

[mfinn]

I had 4 gen3 Radion XR30's go in.