random bouts of stupidity

[boyesreef]

does anyone else ever have random bouts of stupidity? last night i was doing my weekly water change when one came out of the dark corner and took a flying ninja attack at my head! i started with 3 gallons of fresh distilled water in a clean 5 gallon bucket set up my heater and powerhead and walked off to get the salt. came back an hour later to nice 75 degree water mixed in my little bit of liquid calcium (it makes me feel better) and walked over to the tank with my bucket. set up my siphon so i didnt disturb anything and started refilling the tank. i got about 2 cups of water into the sump before i realized i forgot a major step, the salt was still in the storage cabinet at the back of the house! in a 17 gallon system, i almost nuked my whole tank for sure. what a night! anyone else got stories to make me feel less

[V]

yes i'll have a poke at this....

I got up this morning.......... *The End*


How's checking a strange noisy pump & almost setting your house on fire by forgetting oil was on the stove, thats got to be up there at least.

Walked randomly away & returned to a blaze taking the life of my once white (and Rectangle) vent extraction unit. Almost 3deg burns throwing the pot out into the backyard to save the rest of the house...lol

I now have the words "ScanPan" seared into my palms like some old Indiana Jones movie

[boyesreef]

i must say, my goofups dont usually end in a new tattoo.

[V]

nether do mine, but i thought it was funny

[CarmieJo]

Well, there was the time I super glued a coral to my fingers, or the one where the tube came off the pump and created a fountain, or floating a bag of snails to equalize temps and forgetting about them til the next morning, and so on and so forth!

[rayme07]

Not using a GFI and my cord got water on it and almost burned up my room while I was dead asleep due to the fumes in the smoke.Thank God for my dogs and birds.

[SaltyDawg]

My blue devil likes to blast the sand out of the corners and I use a long wooden spoon to push it back. While doing this one day, I decided to move the powerhead with the spoon. The wife was sitting next to the tank and the spoon slipped and her head was covered with tank water.

I would rather have been zapped!

[CarmieJo]

Oh, I forgot the time I was standing on a ladder (this from the lady who walks with crutches) working in the tank. I didn't want to get down off the ladder to move the light so I just slid it over. That worked for a minute then it started falling in the tank. So I grabbed it. You should not grab the lights if they fall into the tank. You really should not do this if you are standing on a ladder. You REALLY REALLY should NOT do this if you walk with crutches but insist in standing on ladders.

[boyesreef]

ok, never cut mirror with a dull glass cutter. my thumb still doesnt move correctly. do you all remember that fiasco?

[rayme07]

ok, never cut mirror with a dull glass cutter. my thumb still doesnt move correctly. do you all remember that fiasco?

oh yea I remember, just reminding me of it makes me get all woozy feeling just thinking about it happening to me.

[THEJRC]

the one I constantly do now is pretty much the same... when changing water in my clown fry tank (days 1-8 where you pretty much have to change it once or twice daily) I'll seet up my siphon with a peice of airline tube and clamp it to the side of the tank so my arm doesnt get tired holding the thing... naturally it goes slow (just try a 2 gallon water change with airline hose) and inevitably I wander....

Hats off to all the clownfish who survive this each and every time!! even as fry its gotta suck to live in a nearly dry tank for a little bit only to be blasted with water when the idiot who drained the tank realizes he's got to get water back in.

[CarmieJo]

I think we are all ADD!

[Phurst]

LOL, great stories! There is oc course my infamous supergluing of he lips incident. Another one was when i decided to do a water change before I went to China for a week. it was about 11:30 at night, had 20 gallons of water all mixed up and ready t go. I change water by siphoning water into a 5 gallon bucket, dump it and repeat until I have removed the necessary amount of water. I was rolling right along, and as I was dumping out a bucket, I realized I had just removed one bucket too many! I took out 25 gallons of water, but only had 20 gallons to replace it with. Mind you this is 11:30 at night, so I can't pop over to the LFS to get more salt, or even pre-mixed water, and I'm leaving at the crack of dawn to fly half way around the world. Thankfully, I found a local club member who was still up and who could loan me enough salt to make up 5 more gallons. Crisis averted

[THEJRC]

lol I forgot about the glue incident.... I think the worst ones for me is when I go pumps off to feed and forget to turn them back on before I go to bed. I now run heaters in various sections of all my tanks now due to the last "cold snap".f=

[boyesreef]

oh yea I remember, just reminding me of it makes me get all woozy feeling just thinking about it happening to me.

that was over a year ago now. wow how time flys!

[rayme07]

that was over a year ago now. wow how time flys!

Yea I know it seems like yesterday I was a sophomore in high school and now I am a Jr. It seems like the older you get the faster time goes.

[SaltyDawg]

Ohhh...... to be a jr. in high school again. I'm dreading my 20 year reunion next year. You wonder where the year went........I wonder where my hair went, and where this belly came from. lol.

[boyesreef]

usually your hair migrates to your back and ears, and the belly is all of your youthful experience embodied. ok, i made that up.

[rayme07]

Ohhh...... to be a jr. in high school again. I'm dreading my 20 year reunion next year. You wonder where the year went........I wonder where my hair went, and where this belly came from. lol.

The hair probably went when the kids got to teenage years, and the belly from too many beers from all the stress the teens are giving you from then on. lol