Biggest Mistakes?

[ken31cay]

I think this should be elaborated on as it seems bizarre.

I can relate to what happened to tlindsey. My mother-in-law, who is from rural Honduras, has a funny way of doing things (same as my wife sometimes, but she gets a pass). About 10 years ago I had purchased two 4-month old pitbulls, superb quality, and then one day about three weeks afterward they just went missing. Needless to say I was perplexed. It turns out that my mother-in-law purposely opened the gate in my yard that day to get rid of them. I found this out years later. Her rationale was that it put my young 2-year old son in danger. At that point all I could do is accept that maybe it was for the best after all.

 

[troublesum]

Reading through this thread it has just struck me that I fall into an extremely niche bracket, in fact it would seem that I may be totally unique within the hobby, the only one!!

What I'm referring to is overfilling tanks during maintenance and flooding the floor.

I have never ever, in my whole two stints in this hobby, spanning decades, ever accidently overfilled a fish tank whilst refilling during a water change. Ever!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not having a poke at anyone who has, because, if you get distracted seriously enough, then you're in trouble, and some of you still bare the mental scars, lol.

A serious flood in our house would finish my hobby off. My wife only just tolerates it as it is, even though she now has a little tank of her own. There will be no second chances for me, and maybe this is what makes me so anal when it comes to water changes.

Surely I can't be the only hobbyist who is either such a professional at water changes, or just downright lucky!!

You are not the only one i have never over filled a tank but i believe its for the same reason as you Eso my tank is in our bedroom so i basically stand in front of it for 30 minutes waiting for it to fill back up 2xa week for the last 8 years

 

[Abominus]

You are not the only one i have never over filled a tank but i believe its for the same reason as you Eso my tank is in our bedroom so i basically stand in front of it for 30 minutes waiting for it to fill back up 2xa week for the last 8 years

My 45 gallon tank always get refilled with buckets, no darn pipes!

 

[pacu mom]

Kudos to all of you who have never overflowed a tank or had a flood. Tank maintenance is not our thing, and the simpler and easier it is to do it, the better it is for us--hence the plumbing to make water changes easier. It takes about 7 min and 30 sec to drain out 130 gallons (gravity flow via a pipe under the house that dumps to the outside). We use our mechanical filtratration plumbing to pump water back into the tank utilizing the Reeflo Hammerhead pump (5800 gph), it takes about 4 minutes to pump in 70 gallons (at 0 head, it would be about 96 gallons a minute). The equipment room is located behind the tank. To get to the equipment room, I have to go through the length of the living room, through the entire kitchen into another room and then to the holding tank/equipment room) It literally takes seconds to overflow the main tank or to pump the holding tank dry so it loses its prime. While I had no spills yesterday, the floor in the living room was drenched by a freak out by my fish who have very vivid imaginations as they apparently tried to escape an imaginary predator. It's hard to imagine that much water can come from the top of the tank onto the floor

 

[fishdance]

I'm not sure why you don't implement constant drip ? You already have an overflow drain. Just add a dedicated input water source.

Not only eliminating the workload - chance of floods - possibility of landing on a bad water day but it's better for fish without disruptive events.

 

[ken31cay]

I'm not sure why you don't implement constant drip ? You already have an overflow drain. Just add a dedicated input water source.

Not only eliminating the workload - chance of floods - possibility of landing on a bad water day but it's better for fish without disruptive events.

I have a 1" bulkhead drain and 3/4" supply to my tank. What else is needed? I also need to add a buffer solution (approximately 1-1/2 cups baking soda and 3/4 cups epsom salt per 100 gallons) and of course Safe for the chorine in my water.

I watched a couple of youtube videos about this awhile back and I dropped the idea due to probably needing to add a reservoir with premixed water w/buffer. I didn't see any dosing equipment that would handle that part.

 

[Abominus]

One common mistake is overstocking, which you experienced firsthand. Many people start with a small tank and quickly add more fish without considering the bioload and space required, leading to issues with water quality and fish health. Another frequent issue is inadequate filtration. You saw this problem with green water and high ammonia levels, which underscores the importance of having a good filtration system in place to maintain water quality.

Another mistake which you are going to regret soon is bringing your robo ass in my thread!

 

[RyanScanner]

Another mistake which you are going to regret soon is bringing your robo ass in my thread!

Seeing bots everywhere! After reading Helm’s post they are very generic Chatbot like eh.

 

[RyanScanner]

One of the posts said this lol

‘If the number of these threads seems to be increasing over time, it could indicate that a group of bots is exploiting a flaw or a security gap in the platform. They might be programmed to flood the system with random content, which could be part of a spam campaign or a test of the system's resilience.’

 

[jjohnwm]

Another mistake which you are going to regret soon is bringing your robo ass in my thread!

Hey, relax! Take it easy; nothing to worry about here...

After all, you already had that one banned, so it can't really be stalking you...can it?

I think it's just another minor symptom related to "acccidental thinking".