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Let this be a lesson!!!

Beeman

Beeman

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NEVER EVER walk away from your trusty python while she be in progress!!! Regardless the import of the conversation, the wood floor and the wife(more so!!) are non-forgiving!!!:( And my day started out so well too:wacko:
 
dogofwar

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I drain my big tanks with a ~20 foot 1" hose that's got a PVC "U" on one end (to hang over the side of the tank). I tie the end of the hose that goes into the sink on the refill (garden) hose that's in the utility sink in the fishroom. It's never come loose.

Until Sunday AM when it spontaneously began siphoning (the U side was mostly out of the water on the side of a dump filter on top of a 150g)...and the drain end untied itself from the garden hose, fell on the ground and began draining.

I spent a nice part of Sunday AM cleaning up wet floor / carpet. Yay!

Good news is that I just bought a new bottle of enzyme cleaner at the Dollar Store and cleaned it up pretty well.

Matt
 
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Just so

Another testament as to why CCA's poster child is not employed at the Pentagon. Dollar store indeed...

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A couple weeks ago I was draining my 125 when I thought I heard a louder the normal water sound. I attributed to the normal water coming out of the siphon hitting the sink (deep laundry room sink). When I was done draining as much as I wanted I went to turn it off. Oh boy. Water everywhere. Looks like I left a rag in the sink whcih then plugged the drain and overfilled the sink. Thankfully it was in the laundry room (concrete) and the shop vac made it easy work. Lesson learned.
 
golsama

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I overflowed my sink in the 2 floor bathroom while doing water changes once. I thought I got lucky and caught it in time because there wasn't a lot of water on the bathroom floor. Boy, was I wrong! Apparently, there is a crack in the floor that allowed the water to drain into the basement. There was water everywhere!
 
chriscoli

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I was doing a major waterchange/cleaning on my 29 gal upstairs. I usually just do a gravity-siphon into the tub rather than hook it to the sink. The python was all coiled up on the floor and didn't quite reach the tank. So, of course, in my impatience, I gave it an extra yank to straighten out the coils. I drained the tank and went to the bathroom to hook it up to the sink to refill.....oops. I had yanked the end out of the tub and it had drained all over the floor and was running down the stairs.

so, now I drain to the bathroom toilet, trap the end of the python under the toilet lid, and double check before I start siphoning. (I am VERY thankful for having a patient husband!)
 
Pat Kelly

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chriscoli said:
I The python was all coiled up on the floor and didn't quite reach the tank. So, of course, in my impatience, I gave it an extra yank to straighten out the coils. QUOTE]

I used to do that a lot too. I now have a clamp that keeps it in the laundry tub. I kept getting water on the floor in the basement evertime it came off.
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dogofwar

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Wise!

Pat Kelly said:
chriscoli said:
I The python was all coiled up on the floor and didn't quite reach the tank. So, of course, in my impatience, I gave it an extra yank to straighten out the coils. QUOTE]

I used to do that a lot too. I now have a clamp that keeps it in the laundry tub. I kept getting water on the floor in the basement evertime it came off.
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Hawkman2000

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This is why I drain into buckets by the tanks. Even if I had a 125 I probobly still would. No need for a gym membership. Of course if I was 60 or something...
 
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Or

If you had 3-5 125s, and 90s, and 75s, and/or one or more 180s, 225s, etc. It's not the technique that's flawed so much as its application, however infrequently.
 
FishInMaryland

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I was refilling one of my 55s, sitting in front of it watching the fish and not the water level, and the tank overflowed. I bolted for the bathroom to turn the water off, slipped on the wet floor, went up.....then down. Landed hard on my shoulder, but scrambled up and continued the race to the bathroom. Hubby was busy with something else and didn't notice the water (or hear my thud!), and I got it cleaned up. My son watched the whole thing and his comment was "That was awesome, Mommy!" Lesson learned, as well as "here's your sign."
 
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Can we please do it again?

I thought "Mommy" and "awesome" were synonymous. Great story, all that's missing is the video.:D

Help me out - am not getting the "here's your sign" bit. Sign of...?
 
FishInMaryland

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Not quite on point, but I was definitely giving myself credit for being an idiot!

"Here's Your Sign" is a "song" by comedian Bill Engvall. Sample lyrics:

I just hate stupid people.
They should have to wear signs that just say I'm stupid.
That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you?
You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops,
never mind"
"I didn't see your sign."

It's like before my wife and I moved from Texas to California our house
was full of boxes and there was a u-Haul truck in our driveway.
My friend comes over and says, "Hey, You moving?"

"Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week. Just to see how many
boxes it takes."

"Here's your sign."

Why can't they get the picture? Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes, we're talking about the
modern man.
So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds...
Here's your sign. Here's your sign.

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled
his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on
the dock goes, "Hey, yall catch all them fish?"

Nope.

"Talked 'em into giving up."

"Here's your sign."
 
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