So Thursday night (at midnight no less) I noticed a young tiger shrimp in with my green shrimp. Tiger shrimp often don’t let go when you pull plants out of the water. I caught the tiger shrimp but when I got the net out of the tank the tiger shrimp flipped itself out and onto the floor. The shrimp survived the fall to the floor and had started trying to crawl across the ground.
When I bent down to pick up the shrimp I accidentally sat on the PVC pipe for the drain system on the tank below. I heard a loud crack, turned around and saw the a big crack in the tank with the water pouring out.
Broken tank
In a panic I reached over to the crack to see how stable the bulkhead was and a got stabbed by a piece of glass. With my finger bleeding all over the place I scrambled to get my powerhead and 3/4″ clear tubing to pump the water out of the tank before it spilled all over my floor. I drained all but 3 inches of the water. I pulled the pellia and other plants out along with the red claw macro shrimp and all their babies and moved them into another tank. I was able to get them all transfered over safely and as far as I know did not loss any of them. I never was able to find the little tiger shrimp though, I think he got washed away in the water that poured out of the tank. I am just glad it was in my garage so the water didn’t end up doing any damage.
lovely bloody finger
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ok that stinks. I can’t wait for more update i have recently gotten into a shrimp addictioni only have cherries and Taiwan Blues though but im hoping to expand soon.
Ya the cut kinda sucked, I actually cut the same finger much worse the next day while trying to silicon one of the 65gal blue tanks I got. My finger found a nice shard of glass in the tank that sliced it quite easily.