Last night, just before dinner, Dillon accidentally knocked a wine bottle into the glass front of our 10-gallon fish tank. Luckily, the glass held together but enough cracks appeared to cause numerous spouts of water to throw about 8 gallons of water onto the kitchen floor, countertop, and into the rec room! We had to grab all of our bathroom towels to sop up the water as it fell onto the wood floors, but there was nothing we could do to stop the water from flowing out. The tank was too heavy to lift with the water in it and various decorative rocks and things, so we had to wait for most of the water to drain out. I was finally able to lift the tank without the glass breaking all the way through, and carried it out onto the back patio.
After the massive clean-up effort, I took Dillon over to PetSmart so we could buy a replacement tank. Thankfully, we saved the fish by scooping them out and dropping them into a pitcher of water. So when we got back from PetSmart we prepped the tank, transferred any water that we managed to salvage from the old tank, loaded up the rocks, and then dropped the fish back in.
Definitely not what I had planned for my evening after work, but it added some excitement to the night. That's for sure.
After the massive clean-up effort, I took Dillon over to PetSmart so we could buy a replacement tank. Thankfully, we saved the fish by scooping them out and dropping them into a pitcher of water. So when we got back from PetSmart we prepped the tank, transferred any water that we managed to salvage from the old tank, loaded up the rocks, and then dropped the fish back in.
Definitely not what I had planned for my evening after work, but it added some excitement to the night. That's for sure.
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