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Texreefer
Thu, 6th Jul 2006, 06:51 PM
jacked with my skimmer before i went to bed last night and forgot to re-adjust it. this morning 5 gallons of water was on floor,.. but thats not bad part.. bad part was i had to go to work. so while i was at work my ro/di system replaced my saltwater with nice fresh filtered water and my SG was at 1.016 by the time i got home.. talk about a long day.. all i had in tank were some green chromis and I lost 3 of my 7. i am sloowly bringing SG back in line over next few hours but man how stupid was that for someone whos been working with reef tanks and saltwater for over 10 years :angry :wacko
Fin-Addict
Thu, 6th Jul 2006, 07:11 PM
Sh*t happens! Even to the best of us!!!
Bill S
Thu, 6th Jul 2006, 10:09 PM
Don't you just HATE IT when you do something stupid?
Shark_Bait
Thu, 6th Jul 2006, 10:39 PM
Here's your sign... Well be thankfull it wasn't a fully stocked tank
seamonkey2
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 08:03 AM
welcome to the club, now you just have to upgrade to the GOLD membership,(that's over 40ga) and then to the PLATINUM (you don't want to know how much salt water takes to be a member LOL)

Jose
GaryP
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 10:59 AM
At least you didn't glue your fish's lips together.
seamonkey2
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 12:43 PM
ROTFLMAO

Jose
brewercm
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 03:11 PM
At least you didn't glue your fish's lips together.

Now that was funny.

BTW, I did similar but caught it right before my sump started to overflow. On mine I had accidentally layed the power cord to my skimmer pump on top of float valve to my sump. By the time my wife noticed since it's in the garage I had probably added an additional 50 gallons of FW to my system. Luckily it didn't overflow yet and it didn't kill anything.
GaryP
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 03:25 PM
Now that was funny.
A legendary MAAST moment.
brewercm
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 03:39 PM
We should have kept those pics in a sticky somewhere for future use. Use it as a public anouncment or something for "What to do when good fish go bad".
GaryP
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 03:43 PM
The funny thing is that it could have happened to any of us. It was just funnier because of who it happened to, who shall remain nameless. :)

OK, back on topic. Hmmmm.... Low salinity.
blueboy
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 04:04 PM
did i miss a story? how long ago was this? not much on this forum has gotten past me in the last few years, but i don't remember that one.
GaryP
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 04:21 PM
Its been a while.
cpreefguy
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 05:57 PM
Its been a while.
Not long enough <_<
Flobex
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 05:57 PM
...your gonna have to explain it eventually...

so it might as well be now :P

youve said to much, now all us "outsiders" wanna know :P
Shark_Bait
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 09:21 PM
Well it's been within the last 2 years...
GaryP
Fri, 7th Jul 2006, 10:09 PM
Reefer glues frag, yellow tang nibbles at glue, yellow tangs lips get glued shut, reefer posts pic saying "look what I did," rest of reefers crack up.

That's the readers digest version anyway. You had to be there.
1salt
Sat, 8th Jul 2006, 01:59 AM
LOL - dang, I forgot about that one!!!!!! Too funny...
gjuarez
Sat, 8th Jul 2006, 08:21 AM
ZOOperman is a crazy guy. LOL Still remember that story. Hey, I never received my frag from my 999 thread.