MarcG

Hello everyone! My name is Marc and I live just north of the DFW metroplex in a small town of Argyle, just south of Denton. I'm a recent graduate from UNT (BM & MM). I started my adventure in marine keeping at the end of 2008. Since then I've had a 29g, 55g, 115 DAS (plastic), and my latest tank another 115g DAS (wood trim). I've gotten all of my tanks used, and the lastest I got free from a member of DFWMAS. Everything has been transferred from one tank to the next. I've recently started to get into SPS, and it's been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. I absolutely love the hobby (minus the drain on my wallet ).

Today I heard a small trickle of water as I was walking past my fish room. Instantly I ran over to see what it was. After freaking out when I saw water pouring somehow out of the back glass of my tank I thought that a silicone seal had broken or my glass cracked. As I turned around I looked up under the trim in my tank and I see that the eurobracing is underwater. Turns out that my sea hare decided the algae in my unprotected drain looked delicious and my return pumped water from my sump causing my ATO to kick in and provide it with more water overfilling my display. I immediately started to hit the switches on my power strips. I started to pump all the water out into my water change trash can to get it below the drain bulkhead. After removing it, I now faced the dilemma of how to get the fat sea hare out of there! Thinking that his wide "hips" would be too big to come through I started to nudge his head gently back the other way. That worked a little bit until my fingers couldn't reach him anymore. I didn't want to use anything other than my fingers for fear of hurting him. So I tried to know the wet side of the drain out of the bulkhead but since it is encrusted with coraline it wouldn't budge. As I did this it must have really aggravated the sea hare and I got shot in the face with its black ink. Luckily I wasn't staring straight into the drain!!! The ink barely caught my cheek. I got some of the water I drained and put it in a 5 gallon bucket along with the still stuck sea hare. He continued to ink a little bit but I could see that it was desperately trying to get out. I left it alone and he managed to wiggle himself through. Everything got put back together and he is in my QT tank now. What an experience....... Time to build a new safer overflow. I'm just glad that I was home when this happened.