CRAP, my first 5g spill
 

makin up some water for a water change. Only have a Mag 3 for a mix pump. Went for nap, pump shifted, and pumped the whole 5g bucket out ofer the edge while I was napping. :( plus side, the carpet soaked up most of it LOL

This is'nt your first multi gallon mess is it ? If it is your doing great :lol:

When I was building my reef tank, I wanted to test the system out with fresh water to make sure everything was cool. I did the whole thing myself,drilling the tank, building the overflows and sump, so wanted to test things out slowly. I started off by filling the sump with the garden hose. I used the return pump to fill the display tank. Problem was my return pump was draining the sump faster than I had the water coming out the hose. So up the stairs I run and bump up the pressure in the hose.......Yup, you guessed it, the increase in pressure shot the hose out of the sump and sprayed everything in my basement. TV,desktop pc, laptop....everything. Needless to say the g/f was none to impressed when she came home to find me frantically trying to hide my boneheaded move.oh....no leaks in the tank:biggrin:

had a couple 2l spills from skimmer dumping out od sump, (Urchin skimmer) but nothing substantial till now

Couple dumb moves for me:

- when i rented in an apartment (2nd floor) and kept frontosas in a 45 gallon glass tank I was moving some big rock pieces around. The tip of a piece i was holding came free and the rock fell and broke the bottom out. Drained the tank in about 10 seconds. Saved all the fish but really gave the guy downstairs a scare when i knocked frantically, all wet and asking what he kept under my livingroom. Used all the clothes, bedding etc i had to mop up. Mom wasn't impressed when i came to do laundry.

- another time i left a 20 gallon plastic garbage can mixing in my basement. I think a cat knocked it over although i had bought the one with WHEELS (smrt!) and that was a big mess.

- was filling another container when the tank was still upstairs with RO/DI and forgot it. It overflowed down my cold-air return and landed in the litter box downstairs. MESS!

Now my new tank is in the livingroom. Who's less smart...me or the wife!? lol.

man where to start. :lol: lets see hooked up my RO system and for got to hook up the water ine going in to the RO , well actually i didnt push the line in far enough... well you guessed it went up stairs to eat supper the wife asked me yuou hear that. HEAR WHAT.. I dont hear nothing long story short listen to your wife. 20 mons later the wife is screaming at me. i go down and the carpet is soaked, the wall is soaked and the door is soaked . but all the laundry was wet LOL so guess who was doing laundry for the next 2 day's......

2nd time
was tranfering tank over with Doug, and well unhooked the return line from the tank and i dropped it between the wall. well GUESS what water done find gravity it started to leak after i put the new sump in filled it and couldnt understand why the sump that i got was leaking. well it wasnt the sump it was the hose that fell behind the tank .... lucky i had a hole cut between the wall to run the line. 20 gal on the floor....

3rd time
was working on my sump and kit the kalk reactor and ripped the power head off the reactor. 3 gallons of WHite kalk wnet over the back fish room floor. tha twas a mess to get off all the towels that i needed was the wifes towels from up stairs in the master bath.. WHO KNEW!!!!! im a man a towel is a towel............ 160 dollars later from my fish fund. i didnt get my new membrane for the RO/DI that week.................

there are lots of other times but hey i can't tell you all my secrets and now i have a 10 gal WET DRY. and you watch i wont get a spill now

Wet dry awesome, I got a huge one for the shop. Use it to suck up powder. Used the wifes carpet cleaner to suck up this spill. BAD move. she came home, saw me vacuuming and said AHA, I knew you knew how to use that LOL