call me crazy but...

[jmccown]

I just wanted to start a thread "call me crazy if...."

There are times when I am just sitting at the house and hear water running and I immediately think one of my tanks has sprung a leak or something. I jump up and run to where I hear the water splashing and it turns out to be the wife just washing clothes, the washer was filling up. Scares me to death when I hear that particular sound. Really gets my heart pumping. I guess I have had experiences with overflows while doing water changes, etc. One particular time I was doing a 50% water change on my 150g fw tank and went outside for something and forgot about the tank filling back up with my python. I came back in to hear my wife screaming at me. My new wood floor was ruined. My wife got so mad at me. To worsen matters, only a week later my flex tubing on my pump came off and sprayed water everywhere, onto the same floor, about 10 gallons worth before I could get it stopped. I think that's why it brings a cold sweat anytime I hear that sound. Scares the livin' bejeebers out of me.

So, am I alone in having these episodes or do you guys do the same thing. Sometimes, when my sumps are running low on water I do lose some sleep because I can hear the water flowing. I have done many a water topoffs in the middle of the night as a result. Kinda funny but then again it isn't...

 

[notgumbelwv]

I can relate. Sort of like my walking past a tank, half-awake, eyes all bleary with sleep ... and try to see what DOESN'T look like a dead fish :eek1:

 

[LtPiper]

I've more than one started filtering water and walked off and forgot about until I hear a "YOU"VE GOT WATER ALL OVER MY KITCHEN FLOOR!!!!!!" being yelled at me through the house.

 

[mcox33]

I too, will top off tanks in the middle of the night, can't sleep with the noise.

What I hate to wake up to is the sound of the wet alarm in the tank cabinet, at 3am. No fun.

Or, the time I was doing a water change, and turned of the drain valve to the sump. (The heater was in the overflow section, burned out a couple of the titanium heaters, before I figured out what was causing it.) When I refilled the tank through the sump turning on the pump and continuing to add water to the sump (another pump lol) anyway I am keeping an eye on the sump to make sure it doesn't overflow. I was doing so well making sure one pump didn't out pump the other, (turning on and off the return pump to allow the replacement water pump to catch up then turning the return pump back on when the sump was full again.) Anyway the return pump over filled the tank, and it was jumping out into the floor at the corner of the tank when Mike (other half) came through and ask "What was my reasoning for having the water go through the tank before going in the floor?"
Big mess, a puddle of water on the carpet about 5 feet from the tank. At least 10 gallons before I could get it stopped.

You know what surprised me the most, was that to this day I have never heard another word about that accident.

 

[jmccown]

All these good love/hate stories about water...lol

 

[Reef4Fun]

When I am up close to my tank, feeding, admiring...and I step on something on the floor, I instanting think it is a fish that jumped out, and I do this often. I have also been filling my container with ro/di water, which takes about 2 hours, so I almost always forget about it. I have flooded my house 2 times already, ruined the carpet and had to pull it all up. Now I am afriad of putting new floor covering down, so we have bare plywood floors in this room

 

[sixliner6]

I can relate Reef4Fun. I too have forgotten about my RO being on and flooded my room and ruined my carpet. I pulled up the carpet and had a plywood floor for awhile. I just recently had a tile floor put in.

 

[cwegescheide]

My downstairs neighbor hates me.... I'll just leave it at that. I think I'll have to leave them one more gift before we move into our house. After all it is the holidays :lol:

Any time I hear a dribbling sound I frantically try to find out what it is. Most of the time its in the middle of the night of course.

 

[stevebeaver]

i have my r/o unit hooked up in the utility room, and usually run the waste water to fill up the washing machine ( works great)
i've overflowed the washer and the bucket several times. the wife swears she's gonna rip it off the wall next time.
best part is she is the one that really freaks out when she hears water dribbling, lol

 

[wvdaisy]

I'm always on alert when I hear a strange water sound. I've gotten so use to the normal water sounds that I immediately hear something that's off even if Brian doesn't. The sump drawing air in the living room will wake me from a sound sleep in the middle of the night, so I've definately done the bleary middle-of-the-night top offs! Would love to have auto top off but just won't work in that room. I do sometimes start looking for trouble when the washer is on, it's a front load and makes all kinds of splashy sounds