Injuries cause buy your tank
 

Lets here about some injuries cause buy you tank or inhabitants.

Other than the beating I got when my wife opened the CC statement I haven't had any

But my brother and I were moving a large tank when it slipped and landed on his hand breaking a couple fingers

- slipped on the ice carrying my 135g sump. landed on my legs and hand. had trouble walking for a bit nevermind running.

- poorly attached hose came free on a pump and splashed water all over a power bar in my fishroom. i got jolted really well fumbling around in the dark to try and turn the dj strip off that fed it.

I have had numerous interactions with the 'furry' bristle worms that like to live under chalice colonies.

Hmmm, looking at the scars on my hands I can recall at least two stories.

Once I held a razor blade the wrong way and pushed down to scrape coraline off some glass but instead just gave myself an owwie. :lol: Had to get stitches apparently. Apparently 4 stitches if the scar is to be believed.

Another time I was trying to take apart an overflow standpipe and when it finally popped loose the upward momentum carried the back of hand straight into a vermetid snail casing in the overflow and gashed the back of my hand a bit. Stupid vermetid snails.

Once when working in the tank with the halides still on I bumped the back of my head into the lamp and could hear sizzling. Also, on an unrelated note, apparently I am bald.

Which reminds me of a time I leaned over to pick up some reef gear on the floor, and stood up and bumped my head into the corner of the HRV that was hanging beside the tank (before I had walls in the basement). Left a goodly sized chuck of hairless scalp in the metal and had a triangular scab on the back of my head for a few weeks. No idea if the scar is still there. I never look at the back of my head. That lets me believe I am not as bald as people try to tell me.

None of my injuries however can really touch the grievous injuries my house has sustained as a result of having reef gear in the house (or carrying and subsequently dropping reef related gear in the house). I recall one time I dropped a dehumidifier (damn those things are awkward) and it richochet'ed down the stairway punching little holes in the drywall on alternating sides of the stairwell. I am certain that were it not an inanimate object it might have been giggling along the way down too. "Yippeee! I am free! Whee!".

Did the sump break?

I could only imagine the sparks lighting up the fish room as you were trying to kill the power

Every time I have a coral crash it bruises my ego. It's happened a couple of times now. :cry:

Ooh, jolts. Yeah that reminds me. Been zapped a couple times too. I think the best time was when I tried to find out if turning out my lights caused the owwie-zappiness of the tank to go away, and then I found out it was actually my sump return pump. To the external observer only 1 second of time elapsed. Internally in my head a very large lengthy written assay started to form of which the thematic elements were the question "how can I pull my hand out of this water box of zappy pain? It would be nice if my hand wasn't in this water right now. Bloody hell, this is unpleasant." (ad nauseum)

Meh, I lost my ego eons ago. I don't think I even miss it anymore. :lol:

But everytime I have a coral crash, it bruises my bank account. Surely that counts for something.

Lol. K I've done this too. Also bald (buy choice) :)

Never forget the first time I stuck my hand in my tank after having the middle finger nail ripped off.
Didn't hurt until it was wet and salty


Great stories :)

as i went down i had a moment where i knew sliding my hand to the corner was going to get it really badly bashed into the asphalt. i figured i'd try and save the tank and did!

Injuries cause buy your tank
 

Sliced open my wrist pretty good Christmas morning while cutting glass to build my nano tank. Told my wife the blood everywhere was just food colouring that I spilt and she bought it

Also numerous cuts from exacting knives white cutting tanks apart to replace glass on them

Then there's all the fish related injuries

My 3' long bamboo shark decided to eat my hand

My 8" sailfin tang sliced open my wrist

And a 4" orange shoulder speared me 6 times while trying to revive him because he stopped breathing after a medication dip as a last effort to save him (he's still alive today and I still hate him)

Worst injury thus far has been when my hand was paralyzed from an unknown source either debris or coral sting

Bristle worm quills really hurt too

Electrical fire in T5 lights

Sliced my hand on dead brain coral really hurt too

Feet got wet when my 220g blew and ran through the kitchen to grab buckets and towels from the sunroom. Never made it cause as soon as very wet feet running at full speed touch tile in the kitchen, the lack of friction caused me to fly through the air and hit the back door with my butt around doorknob height. My feet touched around the ceiling. Then gravity came into play and I came down with a BANG on the same hard tile floor, knocking my right arm out of commission. Always good to be one-armed when dealing with a 300 gallon gusher in the livingroom.

As for the electrical shocks, I actually kinda like that buzzing, tingling feeling. Yesterday as I was setting up my new frag system in the sump, I noticed the water in the sump was electrified. Pulled each pull out one at a time (about 18 altogether) and of course it was the last one. Pull one - stick finger into sump - feel the buzz - dry hand and pull next plug. Finally solved it and now its all good.

The very worse pain I've ever felt in my life (not just fish related) was when my 12-14" Volitan lionfish swam under my hand while I was cleaning the glass with a scrubber pad. I used to hand feed it so it thought I was giving it a smelt or piece of squid. I had shooed it away with the net but then a fish jumped in another tank and when I looked over to see if the fish was carpet surfing or the glass lid was broken, the Volitan swam under and I got TWO poison-filled dorsal spines into my middle finger on my right hand. Eventually hurt enough I was screaming at my brother to cut off my arm before the poison hit my internal organs as the pain travelled up my arm. Fortunately he ran away yelling and I still have both arms today:wink: So, yeah, the pain was so great that if I had to interrogate a terrorist, I would threaten him with a big lionfish :twised::twised::twised:

Crash
 

While Cleaning a 8' long tank that was in a wall for someone the tank had not been cleaned in over two months I had a good crash. There was so much crap in the back room that you clean the tank from you could not even set up a ladder to Reach in the tank. Instead you'd stand on a 3 inch wide ledge. Long story short ledge got wet I slipped dislocated shoulder And caught the head of a screw on my way down on my stomach and cut it open about 6 inches. Never cleaned that tank again lol.

In about February I was walking outside while carrying egg crate. I had my fingers thru individual holes on one hand and slipped on the ice. Everyone of my fingers on my right hand was sliced open and gushing blood.

Oh man, I've had a few good ones along the way...

1) Had my first run in with a hammer coral during the first couple of months in the hobby (was actually looking after a friend's tank). While I was cleaning the tank the hammer was going all sweeper happy, which of course wrapped around my hand. Didn't think anything of it at the time but an hour later I had 4 blistered lash marks around my hand that stayed for almost 1.5 months - last time I had a marine sting like that was when I got tangled up in a lion's man jelly while diving. Surprised a hammer could still like that? I sure as hell was! I handled that hammer many times after and never had that happen again.

2) I have a handy-dandy foot switch for turning a pump on and off in my water change bucket so that I don't have to lift big buckets of water. Stick the hose in the tank, tap the footswitch and fill. Easy as pie. That is until you're not paying attention, pour a gallon of saltwater on the footswitch, zap the **** out of yourself and, in the process of falling backward, spray gallons of saltwater around the living room because the pump is still running. Footswitch is now waterproof with a killswitch...

3) Too many bristleworm encounters to count, but I'll always remember the epic wrestling match with a 12" bristle worm who refused to let go of the rock (I picked a 5 lb rock up out of the tank using the worm). When he finally let go of the rock, I lost my grip on him and he flipped back and landed in the rubber glove I was wearing. He was laughing but I got the last laugh as he swirled around the porcelain fish tank.

4) Sliced my hand open on fresh cut glass.

5) While screwing my new DIY LED fixture together my screw driver slipped and stabbed me in the hand.

oh i like that foot-switch idea! sorry to hear you got zapped (unless you enjoy it like anthony?)

Hm. I'm pretty careful when I'm around my fish tanks. ;) Though a hammer did sting me once while I was cleaning the glass. It was uncomfortable, but I wouldn't really classify it as an injury!

I like the stories, though. I've heard that the Lion fish poison is excruciating.. that really sucks, Anthony.

Injured pride here too

Right after our new carpet was installed, I tested my brand-new sump and a bulkhead leaked quite a bit of RO on the floor
Had to tear down the sump room to roll back and dry out the carpet, underlay and ply floor

At least it wasn't salty

My wallet

Ya man, it's the cat's pajama's! When I first made it I was like "How has no one thought of this!". This is how I manage to do 25% water changes on two tanks every week. I'd have given up on that without it.

And no, unlike Anthony, I hate being zapped with a passion... probably because I am the son of an electrician and had a grandfather who would rustle up fishing worms using an old telephone dynamo... which had a wire that would constantly fall off... which I would jump in to fix... as my grandfather would wait patiently until I was holding both ends of the wire and... ZAP!

And people wonder why I'm weird.... :razz:

Steve, what's the setup ?
Link it - start a DIY ... :smile:

While fragging, I stepped off what I thought was the last step on the step-ladder. It wasn't. I went for a good spill along with a bowl of frags.

I was cleaning the glass when my A-hole of a stocky pink anthias jumped out and hit me in the face (not making this up)... In a mad scramble I threw him back in the tank. The day earlier I was fishing for him with a trap/net/hook because he demolished every other anthias in the tank (4 other stocky pinks and 5 lyretail).

I use one of these:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Woods-1120...White/21099388

I doubt it's waterproof (and I'm not gonna test it), but it was less than $10.

i got 3 times long spine urchins spin in my fingers once doc tried to take it out but he give up