Swallowed tank water

[MikeyZo]

I think I feel a case of ich coming on…

 

[Aquarist76]

Yup. This happens fairly often and I often chase it with some whisky. LOL. Cause that's what I like and have a lot of it around at any given time.

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?

 

[MikeyZo]

Yup. This happens fairly often and I often chase it with some whisky. LOL. Cause that's what I like and have a lot of it around at any given time.

Same! It’s always on hand

 

[DavidA]

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?

I have swallowed tank water many a time but less frequently since using a Python hooked to a faucet. Mezcal is preferable to whiskey as a palate cleanser since bristle worms can substitute for the worms (actually moth larvae) in a fine mezcal

 

[MikeyZo]

I can’t drink tequila. I’d take the tank water over the mezcal

That’s why scotch is always on hand!

 

[Jungle Blue]

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.

Water Test? I thought you meant Water Taste..

 

[majano lover]

dude, i've eaten so much through that old tube...

 

[NanoSteam]

This gave me a chuckle... mmmm skimmate splashing all over your face, that's also happened to me.

 

[D'sreef]

This is the same reason I refuse to syphon gas as well. Hygger makes and excellent hand pump....

 

[MikeyZo]

This is the same reason I refuse to syphon gas as well. Hygger makes and excellent hand pump....

Where’s the excitement in that? Lol

 

[fishkat]

When it catches you by surprise, you surprisingly swallow

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?

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?

MikeyZo
Why suck on end of tube for wc? Just close a plastic clamp on tube near tank, bend tube just below it and hold in hand then submerge intake of suction device and fill with water, lift out of water and let water fill tube, repeat until tube and suction end are full of water then place it in water, quickly release the bend in the tube and clamp. the water flow will suck tank water into bucket and you can start suctioning the sand bed!
works for me,
fishkat

 

[NanoSteam]

MikeyZo
Why suck on end of tube for wc? Just close a plastic clamp on tube near tank, bend tube just below it and hold in hand then submerge intake of suction device and fill with water, lift out of water and let water fill tube, repeat until tube and suction end are full of water then place it in water, quickly release the bend in the tube and clamp. the water flow will suck tank water into bucket and you can start suctioning the sand bed!
works for me,
fishkat

 

[Rjramos]

A little gulp of saltwater rich in minerals won’t hurt you, I think its actually therapeutic. My conure drinks from my tanks like it’s good for her, what’s good for the birds must be good for us.

 

[MikeyZo]

MikeyZo
Why suck on end of tube for wc? Just close a plastic clamp on tube near tank, bend tube just below it and hold in hand then submerge intake of suction device and fill with water, lift out of water and let water fill tube, repeat until tube and suction end are full of water then place it in water, quickly release the bend in the tube and clamp. the water flow will suck tank water into bucket and you can start suctioning the sand bed!
works for me,
fishkat

That’s a lot of work. Seems easier to just suck.

 

[BZOFIQ]

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

Um.... why does it say RIP on his avatar - don't tell me.....

 

[BZOFIQ]

Clearly, I'm missing something.

 

[papercrab]

i was surfing once after a storm in the Atlantic and the sea was kinda of murky brown. the water tastes foul and the sewage company has definatley had s

 

[papercrab]

sorry incomplete, my keyboard hates me. continue: some overflow and then my board ducks under a waves and when it comes up i can just see a brown piles of something on the end of my board that was definitely not seaweed.

 

[MikeyZo]

sorry incomplete, my keyboard hates me. continue: some overflow and then my board ducks under a waves and when it comes up i can just see a brown piles of something on the end of my board that was definitely not seaweed.

Das naaaasty

 

[papercrab]

thats British water companies for ya. most of the rivers near me a pretty much dead cus of all the dumping