Kids #@!#@!#
I received a phone call from Vicki this afternoon...
My darling 5yo daughter decided she would play with one of the magnets left next to the DT from an old JVP pump. She decided she would put it on the magnet holding up my Tunze pump. As expected it stuck to this magnet.
At this stage, no damage done but could she leave it like this nooooooooooooooo!!
She thought she had better fix the problem by seperating the magnets - unfortunately, these two magnets did not seperate but she did manage to pull them both from the tank. For anyone that has a Tunze pump, they know how strong the magnets are on these things.
Now, this is bad - the pump was now dangling inside the tank on about 55cm of cable. In my tank, that means that it was just about at sand level and was doing a good job of blowing sand everywhere. Luckily I have my pumps alternating every 2 minutes so at least it was not on all the time.
The bad thing is that all the sand was blown into the rocks where my firefish had its home - I think I have been able to remove most of the sand that was blocking the holes but I don't know how much has actually been pushed down under the rocks. I have not sighted the firefish since I have been home :(
Hopefully, he will come out soon....
My darling 5yo daughter decided she would play with one of the magnets left next to the DT from an old JVP pump. She decided she would put it on the magnet holding up my Tunze pump. As expected it stuck to this magnet.
At this stage, no damage done but could she leave it like this nooooooooooooooo!!
She thought she had better fix the problem by seperating the magnets - unfortunately, these two magnets did not seperate but she did manage to pull them both from the tank. For anyone that has a Tunze pump, they know how strong the magnets are on these things.
Now, this is bad - the pump was now dangling inside the tank on about 55cm of cable. In my tank, that means that it was just about at sand level and was doing a good job of blowing sand everywhere. Luckily I have my pumps alternating every 2 minutes so at least it was not on all the time.
The bad thing is that all the sand was blown into the rocks where my firefish had its home - I think I have been able to remove most of the sand that was blocking the holes but I don't know how much has actually been pushed down under the rocks. I have not sighted the firefish since I have been home :(
Hopefully, he will come out soon....
