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03/06/2009, 02:52 PM
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The MOST DISGUSTING thing just happened.
So I am at Staples getting some supplies.
Right next door is Petco, I think to myself "I need a coulpe Astrea". I rarely shop there but I need some snails, I pop in get, 5 snails, they put them in this huge bag full of water. I get home to acclimate them (my sump is currently a 125 tank in the garage) and I am standing over my sump with my acclimation containers. I set the bag on the center brace and it POPS!!! The entire bag of water goes into my tank!!!
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03/06/2009, 02:59 PM
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03/06/2009, 03:05 PM
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OH CRAP. Sorry to hear
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03/06/2009, 03:13 PM
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Oops
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03/06/2009, 03:17 PM
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ouch... of all the water to let get into your tank lol...
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03/06/2009, 03:21 PM
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Hold me Smithers.
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03/06/2009, 03:23 PM
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have you tried to rewind time ? Try and focus .. .. ... ..
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03/06/2009, 03:50 PM
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Thats the "MOST DISGUSTING" thing that you have ever seen? You should come to work with me some time
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03/06/2009, 03:53 PM
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Not ever "seen".
I spent 10 months in Saudi, Kuwait and Irag during Desert Storm. 
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My tank was cool. Current Tank Info: Barebottom (the tank not me...at least not at the moment). |
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03/06/2009, 03:59 PM
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I seen a pic of my x wife
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03/06/2009, 04:02 PM
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I brought home a small damsel from a petstore like that one day... My kids wanted to hold the bag so I let them. Then they started to argue who should hold the bag and the next thing I krew they dropped it. That bag also popped! Water all over and a damsel flopping on the carpet! He survived tho. 
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03/06/2009, 04:17 PM
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ew gross...
I have a gross skimmate story for you Treg A few months ago I was emptying my skimmer cup. I had put the cup on the counter next to my laundry sink, and was cleaning the lid. When I went to pick up the cup, somehow my motor skills lagged and I knocked the whole full BK 250 SM cup of coffee dark skimmate.... right onto my crotch and inside my pants. I just about threw up from the feel and smell. Never will do that again *crosses fingers and legs* but I've since spilled (less) skimmate into my sump twice
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03/06/2009, 05:43 PM
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So that's what that smell is!
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03/06/2009, 05:56 PM
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YOU'RE DOOMED!!
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03/06/2009, 06:17 PM
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Pretty gross.... But I agree with Jeff, probably not the most disgusting ever. Spend a day in the hospital....
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03/06/2009, 06:18 PM
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The most disguisting thing ever (even worse than aforementioned skimmate incident)was when my dog snuck some meatballs off of the coffee table when I left the room.
lets just say it didn't sit well with his digestive system and we had to clean the floors AND the walls.
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03/06/2009, 06:20 PM
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Nooooo! Is the fuge is now a quarantine tank?
There are grosser things that have happened.
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03/06/2009, 06:20 PM
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I would call them and ask if that tank was dosed with copper?
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03/06/2009, 06:34 PM
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Since there were hermits and snails in the tank I doubt there was copper in it thankfully.
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My tank was cool. Current Tank Info: Barebottom (the tank not me...at least not at the moment). |
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03/06/2009, 06:47 PM
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now now, not ALL PETCOs are that bad. I certainly wouldn't purposefully add water from the one I work at to any of my tanks but I wouldn't totally freak out about it either (at least from one of the invert tanks, I've got copper going through the fish onlys)
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03/06/2009, 07:00 PM
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Ever watch dirty jobs I bet there is something that will gross you out more :OP
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03/06/2009, 07:18 PM
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............but this made me cry........ Quote:
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03/06/2009, 07:20 PM
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03/06/2009, 07:32 PM
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Look on the bright side. They were snails so the water they came in had to be good enough to keep them alive. If it was from a fish only system, copper would surely be a concern.
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