Whats YOUR nightmare?

wnehez

wnehez

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Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to see what others nightmares are about. Have you ever had a nightmare that you came home and your cat demolished your tank inhabitants? Ever wake up screaming because you dreamed your tank walls busted and destroyed your living room? Ever have a nightmare that your plumbing failed and sprayed your entire basement with 100 gallons of saltwater all over your structural beams and electrical box? I'm sure I cant be the only one waking up at 2am and running down the stairs as if my first born was being taken. Lets hear your worst nightmare and reactions. :clown:
 
I had to tear down my entire tank due tue a faulty toilet. Don't ask.
Another time my quarantine tank was dripping right onto and outlet OVER NIGHT. I woke up to a ploom of smoke and a sizzling outlet.
 
I woke up to my nightmare, smoked filled basement where my tank is. I was upgrading from a rkl to a atchon. I didn't get finished so I kind of let it all lay where it was. Well apparently there was a leak in a bulkhead and it dripped on a power strip, the transformer and power strip began to melt. It's also fried my gfci outlet. Luckily I woke before it got bad.
 
I had a QT tank glass split in the back while I was getting ready for work one morning. My wife heard a water gushing noise from that room and was frantically screaming for me. Surprisingly, I was more worried about the two fish in there than all the water on the floor. Cleanup was a pain, but I got to it quick before it did any real harm.
 
My tank is at my office. Often, I don't see it from Friday until Monday.

I often worry that I'll walk into the office on Monday morning and see that I've blown out a wall of my tank and there's 210g of saltwater all over my office.

Not a big deal, except that I've got a medical records office in the office below me.

One day I was leaving the parking lot and noticed that they were taking out some ceiling tiles that looked like they had been soaked. The landlord's assistant was there and I asked her what happened. She said they evidently had a small water leak from somewhere, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from.

It may or may not have been from my RODI overflowing because I forgot I was running water through it on Friday afternoon. It may or may not have been overflowing until Sunday morning when I remembered.

But, as a precaution I ordered an auto shut off kit that day. You know, just in case.
 
What's weird is that I don't have fish tank nightmares now, but I had them quite often back whenever I was in-between tanks.

Visions of cloudy, neglected aquariums with barely living inhabitants. I would wake up feeling terrible! :lolspin:
 
Already had the worst happen last summer. Tank exploded while my husband was away on training( he's in the navy). I was home alone, and it exploded at midnight and I had no one to help me. We had moved here recently and I didn't know anyone. Cleaned up 75 gallons of water and sand, saved all of my fish except 1, in a few hours all by myself. Atleast now I know that I can do it and I can handle it, all on my own. It was horrible though. So my worst nightmare is having to relive that experience again. No used tanks for me ever again. Learned my lesson.


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if you're asking about nightmares during sleep, as opposed to actual happenings, my worst one happened after somebody posted that picture of eleventy billion bristle worms clogging up some plumbing on somebody's tank. oh gawd, that gave me bad dreams for a week! bleh!!!
 
I had a fear that my buried-in-the-stand-so-I-can't-get-it-out sump blew a leak. Last night that very nearly was true, I still don't know where about a cup of water came from. All I did was attach some new Vortechs... That carries right in with blowing a seal on 135 gallons in a second-floor apartment. Terrified but I did take precautions.

Secondly: Crashing my coral stocks. Oh yea, did that. I almost quit but frankly it was the hassle of explaining to my LFS why I was bringing back all my fish I'd just bought. Didn't want to do that so I grumbled my way through a few months' worth of "oh fine I'll feed you, but I don't like you" and pulled out of the slump.

Third: I have a Eunice growing in my fuge. He's getting big. I should probably put it in a tank of its own sometime soon...
 
Pretty well came to pass last November when a violent windstorm had a third of our city without power for 8 days and more---with snow. No generator, no heat, no hot water, no light, and our new flooring was delivered in the middle of it all, the power situation necessitating living in the room with the tanks, oxygenating by hand, and, thank goodness for a huge number of old candle stubs, and the fact part of our city had power to keep restaurants open, we survived it AND got a 100 gallon lps reef and a 50 gallon freshwater tank both through it still alive.
 
All very, very scary stuff. I originally started the thread thinking more along the lines of dreams you had and freaked and ran to check it out and everything was ok, but your actual stories might just end up giving others those nightmares. I did particularly like the "It may or may not have been my RODI unit running all weekend" bit. And the sudden tank explosion syndrome is definitely on the tops of my list. I have had that dream a couple of times, or just random, wait, somethings wrong moments. I remember even recently looking at my tank thinking, please please please do not explode. IDK what I would do. Butterflies in my stomach the rest of the day and couldn't sleep because head was racing thinking of a plan of attack. Even woke my wife up to fully explain in depth the plan of attack especially if I am not there. She was not happy.
 
wnehez said:
All very, very scary stuff. I originally started the thread thinking more along the lines of dreams you had and freaked and ran to check it out and everything was ok, but your actual stories might just end up giving others those nightmares. I did particularly like the "It may or may not have been my RODI unit running all weekend" bit. And the sudden tank explosion syndrome is definitely on the tops of my list. I have had that dream a couple of times, or just random, wait, somethings wrong moments. I remember even recently looking at my tank thinking, please please please do not explode. IDK what I would do. Butterflies in my stomach the rest of the day and couldn't sleep because head was racing thinking of a plan of attack. Even woke my wife up to fully explain in depth the plan of attack especially if I am not there. She was not happy.
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The only reason every fish but one survived, is because I had a plan in my head of exactly what to do in case of an emergency. At all times I have
1. 20 gallons fresh saltwater
2. 20 gallons worth of extra tank( I have 2 10 gallons right now and a 40)
3. 10 gallons rodi water
4. Carbon and polyfilter
5. 4 empty 5 gallon buckets
6. Extra heaters, powerheads, hob filters
7. Try and keep as many clean towels as I can and blankets

The night the tank exploded, I ended up using every towel and bath rug in the house, along with all the extra sheets and pillow cases. It is incredible how much water sheets will actually soak up. The sheets were probably more important than the towels tbh. I used them as barriers to the rest of the house and they kept the water contained to a smaller area. If anything like this were to happen again, I would run to the sheets first no question.
 
My tank nightmares started while I was recently out of town on business.
Day 1 my Wife's TV died.
Day 2 my wife's computer refused to connect to the network
Day 3 my wife got the flu
Day 4 my son's phone could text but not make calls
Day 5 dog goes to vet, only to be told it was time to put her to sleep. Wife waited until I got home, thank goodness.

I kept waiting to hear one to the tanks had sprung a leak or the fish had ich, or a pump died, or .........
Thankfully, everything was OK with them, but taking care of the other issues took a good chunk of time when I got home.
Glad I don't travel often.
 
I had all but 3.5" of water end up on the floor of my living room of a 300g tank because a fish decided to get stick in the overflow drain... Learned my lesson that day of why you shouldn't have power strips laying on the floor (couldn't get behind the tank to unplug or turn off the power strip so I had to crawl on the sopping wet floor under the tank all while being electrocuted):headwally:
 
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