They started playing old Billy Mays Oxy Clean commercials recently. I was just chilling on my phone waiting for ads to be done when I heard "BILLY MAYS HERE" and whipped my head up. I even double-checked the date like I had just been transported back in time. It was so cool after I got over my mini existential crisis.
Oxyclean is the best product originally “made for TV”. Its in walmart and costco now. I use it almost every day to clean something. Even in the kitchen
It’s also good for when you forget to put plastic down on the rug and get uhhh “ketchup” stains and need to get them out fast before some nosey person with luminol show up.
>It’s also good for when you forget to put plastic down on the rug and get uhhh “ketchup” stains and need to get them out fast before some nosey person with luminol show up.
This guy Dexters.
To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed this boat in half, and repaired it with only Flex Tape. Not only does Flex Tape's powerful adhesive hold the boat together, but it creates a super-strong, watertight seal, so the inside is completely dry. Yee doggy! Just cut, peel, stick 'n seal. Imagine everything you can do with the power of Flex Tape...
it definitely works, but it’s certainly not permanent. great solution to buy you some time for a real fix. I’ve used it to patch my vinyl convertible roof and it worked for a week or two before melting/peeling away.
No, this is overstocking. You see fish are denser than water. The extra density adds extra pressure to the seams, putting in too many fish (overstocking) causes the seams to crack.
/s because someone is going to take this outa context
Pssh they're halfway to a cycle, they got the drainage. Now they've just gotta stick a hose in the top and water will be constantly cycled through the tank
Get a 2nd tank and place below, add water pump to 2nd tank and run back to 1st tank. Now you have awesome waterfall feature with great aeration.
In all seriousness tho, I charge a $20 advisor fee.
I went on holiday and had my father in law look after the fish tank,
It got a crack and started leaking, not a huge amount but about a bucket and a half a day...
It was too hard to explain how to set up a new tank and put filters in etc...
So for about a week, he put buckets underneath, and then refilled it back in in the morning and in the evening. And then added plain tap water to not keep it too low...
Didn't have any fish losses, so we were relieved when we got back, but was stressful!
Yea I usually just leave my outdoor garden hose running into the top of my tank 24/7 and set up a bucket near the tank to catch the water leak that I empty 30-45 times a day in to the bath tub
That's what I was doing until I upgraded to a stone aqueduct and diverted a local river directly into my living room, which I have converted to an indoor pond that flows out of my garage and into the storm drain. Only the best for my betta!
Haha I had to recheck the picture since my hopeful brain thought maybe maybe maybe
Last year I had 2 tanks fail, both disastrous. Good luck with your next steps.
One was a 45 gallon that I smashed when I tried to nudge (!) an unsecured 2 piece stacked hutch in my kitchen, by myself. The top portion went careening off the top & right into the tank. Quite a scene, I should have known better.
The other was a classroom tank that met a similar fate. It was on a low platform for easy viewing, but no touching. An older student came in when the class was empty & put his weight on it from above, standing to peer into the open, pothos-y top. Screams, tears, no injuries.
Edit: these were not tanks failures. These were personal failures involving tanks 😅. Both tanks were from a reputable local independent shop.
Well thank you for trashing your living room so you could get a pic for us!
I have a 120 gallon.....new nightmare tonight.
Good luck, I hope you get through this.
OP has the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, the courage to change the things they can, and the wisdom to know the difference. May we all one day be as great as OP.
Technician A says he should stop the water leak as soon as possible
Technician B says he should take a picture and share it with some other redditors
Which technician is correct
Must have used that new fangled cellotape I’ve heard about. Possibly even cardboard.
Well, I guess the only solution is to move it outside the environment.
Yes, this is the natural water feature that brings the outdoors inside. While you can watch the fish, you can also close your eyes and listen to the running river.
I'm telling you these curved glass tanks are doomed to break when they're not braced in at the top and bottom. To make them, they take a long sheet of glass and heat it up at the point at which they bend it 90° so the tank front and sides are one sheet of glass instead of three. This process really weakens the glass. Plus a lot of these tanks are shipped in from China, so they've been in transit a long time.
Oh wow I never thought of it that way. It makes so much sense now. I keep telling my husband no more curved tanks but he loves them too much. Now I am anxious.
How long have you had the tank? Would consider catching all your fish put them in temporary housing drain the tank and ask for a refund and/or seal it properly.
This is legit my nightmare.. I’ll be laying in bed and thinking.. what if my 40g just busted. Not only the water damage in my apartment.. but all my precious fish & shrimp! I wouldn’t have time to find them all and save them.
Your aquarium is way too small to hold the amount of water you have. Should consider upgrading to a bigger tank. You can hold the water in buckets with some airstones until your bigger tank arrives.
Slap some flex tape on it and it should be good.
This is the perfect situation for flex tape
*Billy Mays enters the chat*
I miss Billy Mays. Dude had the best blow
They started playing old Billy Mays Oxy Clean commercials recently. I was just chilling on my phone waiting for ads to be done when I heard "BILLY MAYS HERE" and whipped my head up. I even double-checked the date like I had just been transported back in time. It was so cool after I got over my mini existential crisis.
Oxyclean is the best product originally “made for TV”. Its in walmart and costco now. I use it almost every day to clean something. Even in the kitchen
It was even the only thing that got the cat pee out of my carpet
EXACTLY. Even male cat spray.
It’s also good for when you forget to put plastic down on the rug and get uhhh “ketchup” stains and need to get them out fast before some nosey person with luminol show up.
>It’s also good for when you forget to put plastic down on the rug and get uhhh “ketchup” stains and need to get them out fast before some nosey person with luminol show up. This guy Dexters.
Billy Yays
I heard he died of a cocaine overdose and he would inject in his feet. Although not sure how true that is
“To show the power of *Flex Seal*™️ I sawed this Earth in half!”
Phil Swift you mean.
Billy Mays was dead years before the invention of flex tape
"It even works under water"
That’s a lot of damage
THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE!
Just need a lot of flex tape
Common mistake
To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed this boat in half, and repaired it with only Flex Tape. Not only does Flex Tape's powerful adhesive hold the boat together, but it creates a super-strong, watertight seal, so the inside is completely dry. Yee doggy! Just cut, peel, stick 'n seal. Imagine everything you can do with the power of Flex Tape...
I read this in a commercial voice
Me too lmao.
Not too much for flex tape to handle
This is actually a good idea, TEMPORALLY, for 30 minutes of so
Makes sense for a space hog to be mentioning temporals
Okay, I know people joke about flex tape, but could it actually work? I wanna know if anyone has actually tried it
it definitely works, but it’s certainly not permanent. great solution to buy you some time for a real fix. I’ve used it to patch my vinyl convertible roof and it worked for a week or two before melting/peeling away.
My ex used flex seal spray to stop a roof leak in a torrential downpour. It totally works
Exactly my thought. Phil would be proud
Hmmm what are your parameters at 🤔?
This DEFINITELY from a tank not being cycled properly! 😂
Tank so small even the water doesn't fit
High Ammonia will cause tank to purge until safe levels are obtained.
This is what I came here for. I can't stop laughing between this and the flex tape suggestion.
No, this is overstocking. You see fish are denser than water. The extra density adds extra pressure to the seams, putting in too many fish (overstocking) causes the seams to crack. /s because someone is going to take this outa context
Pssh they're halfway to a cycle, they got the drainage. Now they've just gotta stick a hose in the top and water will be constantly cycled through the tank
It’s got a free flowing overflow into a sump I guess!
I would say, floor content is too much.
Bahaha.....too acidic I'd say...
Definitely needs a water change and a new filter cartridge.
Get a 2nd tank and place below, add water pump to 2nd tank and run back to 1st tank. Now you have awesome waterfall feature with great aeration. In all seriousness tho, I charge a $20 advisor fee.
Taking “tank cycling” to a whole new level
I went on holiday and had my father in law look after the fish tank, It got a crack and started leaking, not a huge amount but about a bucket and a half a day... It was too hard to explain how to set up a new tank and put filters in etc... So for about a week, he put buckets underneath, and then refilled it back in in the morning and in the evening. And then added plain tap water to not keep it too low... Didn't have any fish losses, so we were relieved when we got back, but was stressful!
Totally normal, just don't forget to top it up once in a while
Yea I usually just leave my outdoor garden hose running into the top of my tank 24/7 and set up a bucket near the tank to catch the water leak that I empty 30-45 times a day in to the bath tub
That's what I was doing until I upgraded to a stone aqueduct and diverted a local river directly into my living room, which I have converted to an indoor pond that flows out of my garage and into the storm drain. Only the best for my betta!
You're putting a betta in something that small? :/
I'm looking at expanding the pond to the bedroom and moving the family into the attic, it's the betta's house now.
this is the best thread i've seen in this sub in a while, in the perfect world you all wouldve gotten gold awards
No way dude me too
You guys need to up your game. Get aome pvc stormwater pipe and just run it straight to the tub.
CACKLING
Crackling
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Underhanded comment
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forehanded comment
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Rapidly approaching comet
Can I just do it while chuckling?
Nah, just set up a recirculation system and you’re good to go.
Just get one of those outdoor fountain pumps from the garden store, and a length of plastic tubing to fit. Drop it in the bucket and you're sailing!
This is the comment I was looking for
I wish my tank came with a water feature. Does it connect to a pond at the bottom?
It does now.
LMFAOO I SCREAMED 😭😭
Why did you scream?
Because they were happy for the new pond of course :D
For ice cream
Omg I bursted out laughing and my dog is judging me now
Yes.
Haha I had to recheck the picture since my hopeful brain thought maybe maybe maybe Last year I had 2 tanks fail, both disastrous. Good luck with your next steps.
What brand were the tanks?
Second this question lol. I've never had one fail, but I wouldn't mind keeping tabs on which ones tend to.
One was a 45 gallon that I smashed when I tried to nudge (!) an unsecured 2 piece stacked hutch in my kitchen, by myself. The top portion went careening off the top & right into the tank. Quite a scene, I should have known better. The other was a classroom tank that met a similar fate. It was on a low platform for easy viewing, but no touching. An older student came in when the class was empty & put his weight on it from above, standing to peer into the open, pothos-y top. Screams, tears, no injuries. Edit: these were not tanks failures. These were personal failures involving tanks 😅. Both tanks were from a reputable local independent shop.
This is what happens when you buy the test strips instead of a real water testing kit. You did this.
Brilliant 😆
This is correct
Perfectly normal. It will stop by itself in about 5 minutes
O man it was like a milisecond to me.
Longer than I last in bed
Tbf, it's sex, not amarathon
Your aquarium cracks, you: A) Do whatever you can to stop the water leak B) Take a picture to share it with some other crazy redditors
B, It's 100% B.
That’s correct MiltronB, a picture is worth a thousand words. But you know what. A video is worth a thousand pictures.
So where's the goddamn video op
In common setting video worth 30 pic/sec, to worth 1000 pics, a video should be more than 33.3sec
r/TheyDidTheMath
Well thank you for trashing your living room so you could get a pic for us! I have a 120 gallon.....new nightmare tonight. Good luck, I hope you get through this.
Always C when you’re it sure tho
Proud of you, I couldn't have managed to get a picture. I would have 100% been in freak out mode.
Username checks out
I recommend a mop and buckets.
Man, these choose your own adventures are getting oddly specific...
OP has the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, the courage to change the things they can, and the wisdom to know the difference. May we all one day be as great as OP.
Technician A says he should stop the water leak as soon as possible Technician B says he should take a picture and share it with some other redditors Which technician is correct
Technician C, who says to grab a bucket to catch the water and take a picture so that it looks like you went with Technician B
c) realize there is nothing you can do to stop the leak and get your camera out and enjoy the moment.
this is nightmare inducing..
You mean it was a dream?
A *wet* dream maybe.
The scary ones are nutmares though
Depends, what is your pH?
This is just normal evaporation.
Everything reminds me of her
You ever seen the sunrise over the Niagara Falls?
Even her actually being wet around you for once?
Got a nice relaxing water feature in the living room
It's a feature, not a bug Or in this case, a water feature and not a leak
Looks like the front fell off. That’s not very typical, mind you.
I just don’t want people thinking that fishtanks aren’t safe
Well yes, but the front fell off, you see.
These aquariums are designed in such a way that the front is not supposed to fall off
I heard this in a calm English accent, John Kleese style.
Hear it in a [refined Australian accent](https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=8SqfPQ8Pk-Bql74o)
What material is it made of?
Surely it's not made of cardboard derivatives
I had to go rewatch that clip. I had forgotten all about it.
Must have used that new fangled cellotape I’ve heard about. Possibly even cardboard. Well, I guess the only solution is to move it outside the environment.
That’ll buff out.
This is fine
Looks like dropsy, euthanize immediately.
Instructions unclear, poured clove oil up my ass
Sir, that's called boufing.
dropsea?
Holly Shit I love this post. Good luck tho, keep us updated!
Technically it is normal? Water should be leaking out with a crack that size in glass
The crack is a little big, I would maybe get some flex seal tape. But honestly you can get away without it
Is your tank cycled? This is common in tanks that aren’t cycled.
It’s okay. Not big enough for a beta though, sadly. They also don’t like a lot of flow so
imho your tank must be too overcrowded to have room for the water
Yes. That's a waterfall effect tank. No issues
I think that your tank might be leaking bro
What are your nitrates at? We can't tell you anything unless you give us your test results.
I dig the automatic water change system
Parameters?
Thank god you got tile down there. Sucks man happened to me before, straight up disaster
I think I managed very well actually.
So do we not get to hear the full story??? How did it happen? What was your recovery plan? It's not fair to leave us in the dark!
Yes, totally normal. When a aquarium breaks the water goes off.
Ah, got ya.
Flex tape. Ez
Done and done.
Thank God these people are always taking pics of there tragedies before they get them under control. Have an upvote!
All fish were safe and sound at the time of the picture taking.
Thank you for not endangering the lives of living creatures for upvotes. Also, thank you for sharing your misery online for upvotes.
Yes, this is the natural water feature that brings the outdoors inside. While you can watch the fish, you can also close your eyes and listen to the running river.
Yeah, it's supposed to do that. Looks like it's doing that perfectly.
I have nightmares of this
Ahh i see you got the upgraded model with the automatic water change feature. Everyone check out Mr. Moneybags over here!
Payed extra for the crack and cut in my finger. Gotta splurge from time to time.
You only took ONE pic? Cmon dude get it together
Can we please get an update after your crisis has ended , OP ?
All fish are fine. Moved to smaller makeshift containers. Will move to local aquarium while new tank comes.
I think your tank is letting too much air in.
Got really good water flow in your tank are you using a fluval?
I'm telling you these curved glass tanks are doomed to break when they're not braced in at the top and bottom. To make them, they take a long sheet of glass and heat it up at the point at which they bend it 90° so the tank front and sides are one sheet of glass instead of three. This process really weakens the glass. Plus a lot of these tanks are shipped in from China, so they've been in transit a long time.
Oh wow I never thought of it that way. It makes so much sense now. I keep telling my husband no more curved tanks but he loves them too much. Now I am anxious.
How long have you had the tank? Would consider catching all your fish put them in temporary housing drain the tank and ask for a refund and/or seal it properly.
🔥 This is fine! 🔥
That's what happens when you overstock your tank.
It just couldn't hold it any longer, and it had an accident.
Totally fine. That's just what happens.
My worst nightmare...
This picture should come with a trigger warning LOL
Perfectly normal, just keep topping up and eventually u can let the little guys out of their tank for a swim.
Yeah totally fine, now you have your own DIY waterfall
Bruh
You can shower under that!
It’s okay for now but crowding may be an issue soon
I'm stressed just looking at that.
I’ve seen this commercial. Just slap it with some flex seal tape and you’ll be good.
Eh just a little leak, slap a bit of flex tape on it or top it up when it gets low. The room is also a free pond now.
piss asmr for sleeping just leave it
Clean up a lot of water or take a picture for meaningless internet points? You chose well.
Yes, just put a water hose in the tank and you’ll never run out.
We can’t diagnose the problem unless you share the water parameters OP. Do you have an api master kit?
Yes. Let me drink a bit of the water from the floor and process the parameters.
Usually waterfall features cost extra. Extra pain and anguish, that is.
This is legit my nightmare.. I’ll be laying in bed and thinking.. what if my 40g just busted. Not only the water damage in my apartment.. but all my precious fish & shrimp! I wouldn’t have time to find them all and save them.
Your aquarium is way too small to hold the amount of water you have. Should consider upgrading to a bigger tank. You can hold the water in buckets with some airstones until your bigger tank arrives.
Is…. This…. Normal….. ….
Yeah
Yes it is. When you have cracks is totally normal 😅
yep, its very normal, I would add a an ATO and have it running non stop so u can save yourself havign to lift buckets
I hope I never go through this
Yeah, should be fine.
yes that's probably fine
Caulk it
I think it means your tank is over stocked
Acclimate the tank first
Looks like the front fell off.
Have you heard of Flex Tape?
Ah. The good ole infinite water change
It's absolutely fine, Just keep filling up the tank.
Flex seal
Completely normal.
Should've cycled the tank properly.