Injuries cause buy your tank

lastlight · #1 09-10-2013, 12:55 AM

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

neoh · #2 09-10-2013, 02:15 AM

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.

gregzz4 · #3 09-10-2013, 02:59 AM

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

Phil · #4 09-10-2013, 03:20 AM

My wallet

ScubaSteve · #5 09-10-2013, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

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

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....

gregzz4 · #6 09-10-2013, 04:42 AM

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

waynemah · #7 09-10-2013, 05:07 AM

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).

Mandosh · #8 09-10-2013, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by gregzz4

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

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.