The Lighter Side of Reef Keeping...

OMG lol

I would have to say that my funniest memory is, I had a pretty big Niger Trigger that died a while ago. He jumped out of the tank. I always had my hand ion the water touching him and playing with him. One day, my gf tried to do the same and he bit her finger quite hard. It bled for quite a while. It was very funny to my but she didn't see the humor in it lol;D

 

Haha. That is exactly what happened. Except my hair was all messed up from fighting with the puffer and I probably looked like I just got punched in the face. lol Oh man that is a great story.

 

Not as good as the puffer but here goes:

I had just made 25 gal of salt water in my "holding tank" (55 gal trash can). I was in the other room screwing with the tank when I heard this crazy load splash. Then there was some weird "cry's" and more splashing bellowing from the "water room". I calmly walk to and look into the tank and there is a cat in side the my "holding tank" swimming for its poor life. Now this is not my cat (my girlfriends at the time had all her dads cat [thats 4 adult cat and the 5 kittens that this particular wet had birthed while in my care]) and hates me and everyone else. In order to save my arms from being torn to shreds I run to the other room and grab a towel to wrap around this frantic psycho cat. While retriving the towel the cry's and splashes slowed and almost totally stopped. With the combination of tipping the "holding tank" and scooping with the towel the cat was freed from what almost became its waterier grave. Now I have a soaked scared cat hiding somewhere in my house. I turn and look at my "holding tank" to see smoke coming from the extension running the powerhead in my "holding tank" No matter where I grabbed at the cord to unplug it, wall or at the pump cord, I got a nice little shock. I then turn grab a 25 ft dog leash (which was hanging on the door, thank god) wedge my self behind the "holding tank" to get to the outlet, wrap the dog leash as not get shock. Success! Now I follow the trail of salt water the hiding cat, wash it and make new water. What a treat!

 

Oh man! That would totally ruin my day. lol