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I once dropped a whole bottle of beer into the sump. Spent several minutes panicking until i figured out it wouldn't be a big deal with the large water volume of the whole system. No ill effects.
What's the worst thing you've ever dropped in your tank?
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worse thing for me was my phone... NEVER keep your phone on eggcrate lids. Its waterproof lucky meMade myself a cup of tea (I'm English, living in Australia - forgive me) this afternoon and then, with mind clearly wandering, I wanted to look inside the sump for a second.
Without thinking about it, I put the mug on the tank bracing in order to free hands to open the cabinet doors...
No it didn't fall in - Absolutely no harm was done - but it did get me thinking...
What's the worst thing you've ever dropped in your tank?
I'll start - when first setting up the tank I dropped a - LIVE - 240volt powerboard in my tank. Lucky for me, my hands weren't in the tank at the time / the house safety switches instantly tripped, and there was no livestock in the tank at the time, so no harm done - apart from the instant jump in heart rate while I processed how bad that could have been....
Who can beat that ?
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Well, this week I almost dropped my new reef light into the tank... that would've been bad!
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I dropped 4 Radion XR30 gen 4's in my tank once.
My finger!! Dipped my hand in to scoop out some frozen food out of a small cup into a tank with several puffers, triggers and other meat eaters.. Porcupine Puffer took a good bite of the tip of my right ring finger. Strangest bite pattern... left a small bite hole and a blood blister.
Lucky it just jumped lolMade myself a cup of tea (I'm English, living in Australia - forgive me) this afternoon and then, with mind clearly wandering, I wanted to look inside the sump for a second.
Without thinking about it, I put the mug on the tank bracing in order to free hands to open the cabinet doors...
No it didn't fall in - Absolutely no harm was done - but it did get me thinking...
What's the worst thing you've ever dropped in your tank?
I'll start - when first setting up the tank I dropped a - LIVE - 240volt powerboard in my tank. Lucky for me, my hands weren't in the tank at the time / the house safety switches instantly tripped, and there was no livestock in the tank at the time, so no harm done - apart from the instant jump in heart rate while I processed how bad that could have been....
Who can beat that ?
First I dropped my skimmer cup in the tank killed 4 fish instantly. Second my hand with a voltage leak. Third after my skimmer leaked a bit into tank causing Huge phosphate problem doing a phosphate test, put too much of the reagent in the test, and without thinking dumped it into the tank. I will tell you though don't know what is in it but cleared up my phosphate issue
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Not me but I came home from my office, my mother in-law was watching my kids, I checked my tank and there were about 1/2 a dozen grapes in my tank. My 5 year old thought the fish needed fed (he is 19 yo now). When my wife tells the story she said she thought I was going to have a stroke.
I had the same accident only mine was a light that fell into the tank while it was on. The dog hit the door on the tank stand and it made a clicking sound that scared him and he caught his leg on the light stand knocking the entire set over into the water. Thankfully I was near and was able to catch one of the 2 lights. The house safety switch instantly tripped and everything was ok. Except for one of the lights, which was soaked.Made myself a cup of tea (I'm English, living in Australia - forgive me) this afternoon and then, with mind clearly wandering, I wanted to look inside the sump for a second.
Without thinking about it, I put the mug on the tank bracing in order to free hands to open the cabinet doors...
No it didn't fall in - Absolutely no harm was done - but it did get me thinking...
What's the worst thing you've ever dropped in your tank?
I'll start - when first setting up the tank I dropped a - LIVE - 240volt powerboard in my tank. Lucky for me, my hands weren't in the tank at the time / the house safety switches instantly tripped, and there was no livestock in the tank at the time, so no harm done - apart from the instant jump in heart rate while I processed how bad that could have been....
Who can beat that ?
a toddler that was living with us at the time (it must have been him, it must have..) dropped a forged pair of pliers in the 50 gallon automatic Water Change reservoir that has a top on it and which I didn't see for quite some time, or at least as long as it took for them to turn solid
Apart from that I haven't found the next worse thing yet
Apart from that I haven't found the next worse thing yet
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