Swallowed tank water

[MikeyZo]

How many of you have been cleaning your tank the old-fashioned way and while suck siphoning the water out, swallowed a mouthful of dirty tank water?



Is it weird that my first course of action was to drink 2 shots of scotch?

 

[Üter]

How many of you have been cleaning your tank the old-fashioned way and while suck siphoning the water out, swallowed a mouthful of dirty tank water?



Is it weird that my first course of action was to drink 2 shots of scotch?

Didn't someone on here a while back do that and swallowed a bristle worm ? Or did I have too much Whiskey and just think that?

 

[Staghorn]

Make sure you update your last will and testament

 

[Narideth]

It happens.... it happens.

You think you've been keeping aquariums for too long for it to happen to you, only those novice keepers manage such a silly mistake. You've paid your dues in the past, you know what your aquariums taste like already.

Then you're mid-cleaning a couple of tanks and forget to clear your lines before starting a new siphon. Right into the mouth.

I've been keeping salt tanks for 4 years and freshwater for 20+ - this happened to me a month ago YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD FOR A MOUTHFUL OF TANK WATER.

 

[MikeyZo]

It happens.... it happens.

You think you've been keeping aquariums for too long for it to happen to you, only those novice keepers manage such a silly mistake. You've paid your dues in the past, you know what your aquariums taste like already.

Then you're mid-cleaning a couple of tanks and forget to clear your lines before starting a new siphon. Right into the mouth.

I've been keeping salt tanks for 4 years and freshwater for 20+ - this happened to me a month ago YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD FOR A MOUTHFUL OF TANK WATER.

That’s exactly what I did. Didn’t clear the line for the next siphon!

 

[Narideth]

That’s exactly what I did. Didn’t clear the line for the next siphon!

The salt water is so much worse than fresh! I was spitting and rinsed with Listerine after myself.

 

[Jasonak]

Dude get a python its the only way!
https://www.pythonproducts.com/

 

[Arkayology]

You haven't lived until you have tasted dirty water change water

 

[Narideth]

For me at the time, my good vacuuming hose had kicked the bucket and I was left with just the hose since I hadn't replaced it yet. I've since replaced it with another nice but simple bulb setup.

 

[Narideth]

You haven't lived until you have tasted dirty water change water

Oh geeze, not the tea-colored water... bleeech

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

guilty! of the water, not the scotch. It was never enough to make me sick.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

How many of you have been cleaning your tank the old-fashioned way and while suck siphoning the water out, swallowed a mouthful of dirty tank water?



Is it weird that my first course of action was to drink 2 shots of scotch?

You did the right thing drinking the scotch. Not going to do much to sanitize your mouth, but it should help you forget about all of the fish poop you just swallowed.

 

[exnisstech]

Tank water isn't as bad as skimmate. Neither are as bad as gasoline though. Nothing like burping gas fumes for hours

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

Tank water isn't as bad as skimmate. Neither are as bad as gasoline though. Nothing like burping gas fumes for hours

I gagged at the thought of that.

However- I've absolutely swallowed skimmate and certainly swam in it in the ocean. Some have seen the ocean churned up during a storm and the foam that rolls down the shoreline..... is skimmate! But a skimmer cup.. omg

 

[Mark Goode]

Should be okay. After all, fish do it all the time.

 

[Euphyllia098]

Don't take this the wrong way, but when that happens your supposed to spit not swallow. That's what I've done when it's happened.

 

[fishyjoes]

I do not start a siphon with my mouth but I have been to the ocean

 

[Mark Goode]

I do not start a siphon with my mouth but I have been to the ocean

You wouldn't want to swallow any around the coast of the UK. At least with aquarium water it's only fish poop you're swallowing.

 

[NanoSteam]

It's a right of passage.... i still do it two decades later.

 

[Freenow54]

I do it on purpose . Keeps my Gut Health perfect kills all the bad