Brad
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Well, I've always been told that everyone does it at least once in their aquarium career. Up to now my 17 years has proven them wrong. Until........
I was doing a water change last night and almost finished at 10:30. (I bet you can see where this is going). I had exchanged approximately 25g of water and had my old water in a trash can waiting to be taken outside. I have a rolling cart that it sits on and because of my own stupidity it became unbalanced and whoosh, right onto the floor. It’s amazing how fast 25g of water spreads out even on carpet.
I screamed a few things, wife came running and took it better than I thought she would (maybe she's secretly hoping for new carpet). Kids were no help (although one did get me soup cans to raise the couch off the floor so it did not get soaked.
I spent the next 2 hours trying to soak as much water into out of the carpet using towels and a wet vac. Then went to Walmart (its amazing how much activity is going on at Walmart at 11:30 on a Sunday night)
to get a few box fans and pulled up the carpet to try to dry out underneath.
As of this morning still damp but doing much better. Only time will tell if the carpet stinks or recovers. It’s a shame because we just had that carpet steam cleaned 6 months ago.
I think I'm going to use this as an opportunity to upgrade my water transfer method.
I was doing a water change last night and almost finished at 10:30. (I bet you can see where this is going). I had exchanged approximately 25g of water and had my old water in a trash can waiting to be taken outside. I have a rolling cart that it sits on and because of my own stupidity it became unbalanced and whoosh, right onto the floor. It’s amazing how fast 25g of water spreads out even on carpet.
I screamed a few things, wife came running and took it better than I thought she would (maybe she's secretly hoping for new carpet). Kids were no help (although one did get me soup cans to raise the couch off the floor so it did not get soaked.
I spent the next 2 hours trying to soak as much water into out of the carpet using towels and a wet vac. Then went to Walmart (its amazing how much activity is going on at Walmart at 11:30 on a Sunday night)
to get a few box fans and pulled up the carpet to try to dry out underneath.
As of this morning still damp but doing much better. Only time will tell if the carpet stinks or recovers. It’s a shame because we just had that carpet steam cleaned 6 months ago.
I think I'm going to use this as an opportunity to upgrade my water transfer method.
