What's the dumbest thing you've done?

[Matt]

- I decided my handy-man skills were up to installing my RO/DI... I didn't plan on how tricky that was with 90psi household pressure. Things got a bit wet once or twice.

- I decided to use a long screwdrive to dislodge a snail from an external durso (don't ask me how it got in there). No problem there, but apparently you can't put as much torque on a bulkhead as you'd think (I didn't think I put any). Crack-splash.

- I thought I could outsmart firefishes with egg-crate. Ha. I no longer keep firefish.

[Quagmire]

First time I added a sump,I filled the sump to the top.Then shut off the main pump. that was good for about 5g on the living room carpet.

I hooked my RODI up to the fauset,turned both taps on full,then went to work.The fitting came apart and flooded the whole place.There was only about 10g of RODI water in my container.Good thing I don't pay for water

[Canadbis]

Well just a few weeks ago I was doing FW water changes and went up stairs the use the can, got busy with something else and ran downstairs to have to run back upstairs to shut off the water so it would stop overflowing the 75G

and last week I got chatting about the new windows with my wife and the can I use for top up water had fallen over and put 30 or so Gallons onto the floor.

Good thing it was the basement tanks!!

I have officially learned a lesson

[Ruth]

Oh the things that I have done. It's actually probably a miracle that I am still alive.
Had a filstar canister filter on my old 75g. and decided to do a water change and general cleaning right after I had my Sunday morning cup of Java. Still in my PJ's and bare feet I niftily completed the water change - cleaned the filter and replaced media - closed it back up - went and grabbed my cup of coffee - and fired it all back up. Did you know that if you don't check those retarded canister filters carefully to make sure that the large O ring is in place it can spray an amazing amount of salt water out onto the floor in an amazingly short period of time - we're talking seconds here? Did you also know that salt water is an excellent conductor of electricity? Things I now know - I can levitate - with a full cup of coffee - and scream a high pitched squeel just like a little girl.

Oh and another one - I was retrieving a coral in my 230g that had fallen to the very bottom in the middle under the center brace. This requires that I stand on a chair and to actually reach the coral I had to turn my body sideways to get the most possible reach. As I was making a quick stab for the coral my long spined urchin appeared out of no where and I rammed one spine right under my middle finger nail and about 3 others in various digets. Like any sane person I immediately removed my hand from the source of the pain very quickly at the same time taking a large step backwards........into thin air.

I could go on but you probably get the picture........some things are just better forgotten.

[MoeReefer]

woke up one morning at about 4 am and decided for some reason to do a water change. Just after i finished adding the replacement water i realized it was from the wrong buckett. 5g of fresh water makes a big difference in salinity when added to a 30 g tank. spent the next hour adding salt to the tank untill proper salinity was reached.

[Joe Reefer]

Thats some good stuff.

It took me at least 10 times to stop unpluging stuff with wet hands.

30 gallons of water spilled on the floor takes longer to clean up than you would think.

[Doug]

Been doing this for so long, I have done most of the things mentioned.

Left the water maker running when going out, despite putting a note on the door to turn it off.

Cranked the skimmer up just before leaving. This was pre-waste collector.

Not understanding the relationship of the alkaline well water and ro with no di resin and the higher levels of alk. in some salt mixes. Took a couple years and several lighting/tank combo,s to figure this one out, despite all my experience.

Scratching my new starfire 180 cube before water was even in.

Sigh, I could go on.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Doug

Scratching my new starfire 180 cube before water was even in.

ouch!

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Originally Posted by Ruth

Oh the things that I have done. It's actually probably a miracle that I am still alive.
Had a filstar canister filter on my old 75g. and decided to do a water change and general cleaning right after I had my Sunday morning cup of Java. Still in my PJ's and bare feet I niftily completed the water change - cleaned the filter and replaced media - closed it back up - went and grabbed my cup of coffee - and fired it all back up. Did you know that if you don't check those retarded canister filters carefully to make sure that the large O ring is in place it can spray an amazing amount of salt water out onto the floor in an amazingly short period of time - we're talking seconds here? Did you also know that salt water is an excellent conductor of electricity? Things I now know - I can levitate - with a full cup of coffee - and scream a high pitched squeel just like a little girl.

Oh and another one - I was retrieving a coral in my 230g that had fallen to the very bottom in the middle under the center brace. This requires that I stand on a chair and to actually reach the coral I had to turn my body sideways to get the most possible reach. As I was making a quick stab for the coral my long spined urchin appeared out of no where and I rammed one spine right under my middle finger nail and about 3 others in various digets. Like any sane person I immediately removed my hand from the source of the pain very quickly at the same time taking a large step backwards........into thin air.

I could go on but you probably get the picture........some things are just better forgotten.

Oh my god, Ruth....you had me laughing outloud

[Skimmerking]

First got my 120 going and hoked up the RO/DI unit couldnt figure out why i wasnt getting any water OH YA dumb ass me for got to take the wrapper of the pre filter's ,but guess what it worked great after I took them off...