1.6 seconds of my life I wish I could have back...

[Tswifty]

screw you murphy

 

[jbmynes]

[profanity]
what happend???

 

[PhilipOSU]

What the F!!!!

 

[Kreeger1]

What did u do?

 

[DiscoReefRover]

I i ever catch up to that murphy guy Im gonna kick him strait in the Apple bag .....I feel you r pain brutha man !!!! It can only get better from here!!!

 

[vietcu]

Wow, sorry to see that Tj. I thought acrylic once melted together was suppose to be a solid piece. Sorry to see that happen.

 

[Tswifty]

OK here's the story...

I just recently moved back to PA as most of you know. Anyway, I moved everything back on Friday including the tank. However, I left the tank wrapped in blankets in the back seat of my car, because I was too nervous about someone bumping it or scratching it.

Well today I got the stand set into place, and decided to put the tank on the stand to see what it looked like. So I got the tank out of the car, brought it into the house, and set it on the top corner of the couch... straddling the V (arm and back of couch) so it was stable. Then I went back to the car, grabbed the blankets, and put them on the floor before I set the tank on the floor.

I turn around to pick up the tank, and see it wobble... I lunge towards it, and I swear to gawd the sucker sped its fall up. Anyway, the ending...

It fell 2 feet onto the floor, landing directly on the corner and blew apart all the seams, cracked the bottom, and cracked the overflow.

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Tswifty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13911556#post13911556 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vietcu
Wow, sorry to see that Tj. I thought acrylic once melted together was suppose to be a solid piece. Sorry to see that happen.

If the tank would have landed on a pane or flat side, it probably would've been fine.

But it had a 2' drop directly onto a corner... I don't think there's much that could've saved it.

 

[DiscoReefRover]

you need to go get you a really stiff drink ....repeat if nessisary!!!!

 

[aznnutty]

you know, after reading your thread a few times i couldn't understand how murphy had anything to do with it< thinking our fellow reefer murphy> until i realized it was a link to explain it. man that was a sweet tank, no possible way of fixing it?

 

[Murphs205]

try living with that name ,,it DOES follow me EVERY day ,,, sorry to see that tank like that ,,form the pics it looked very nice T. patch another tank together until you can get Started again bud.

Murph

 

[daniel_a_blake]

ouch!!

 

[chuggy]

if that was mine id be trying to fix it dont know if its possible but i would try

 

[serpentman]

I'm no acrylic expert but it looks like a clean break at the seam so it could probably be salvaged.

 

[sohal1025]

Dude, why are you mad at him when it fell 2' crashing to the floor! Faulty tank or not, does not look like it was his fault
AT ALL!!!!!
[profanity]happens, we all had something happen to us that we would like to blame someone else, but never the less, in my eyes it looks like you.
Sorry to hear that.........................Live and learn, ya know? That's my motto.......

 

[sailoracu2]

sorry to that happen, that was a great tank

 

[serpentman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13913109#post13913109 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sohal1025
Dude, why are you mad at him when it fell 2' crashing to the floor! Faulty tank or not, does not look like it was his fault
AT ALL!!!!!
[profanity] happens, we all had something happen to us that we would like to blame someone else, but never the less, in my eyes it looks like you.
Sorry to hear that.........................Live and learn, ya know? That's my motto.......

Dude, he's referring to Murphy's Law

 

[johndawg]

Poor murphsalty...i was thinking "heck, another deal went bad" until I clicked on the link!
Tswifty, hope you can turn around your luck quick!
John

 

[aznnutty]

haha, thought i was the only one, now i know i'm not so nutty.. well maybe

 

[jbmynes]

Man this sucks so bad Tj.... I think that I might have loved this tank as much as you do, just from looking at the pictures of it set up... It made me drool every time I saw a picture...