Things you have found out the hard way - aquarium related

[Griffin]

I have a problem with to much water

Did you know when filling a large garbage can with ro/di water takes about 9 hours. In knowing this when going to bed you still forget to shut it
off when you go to work in the morning causing a nice flood.
Remembering this you only fill the garbage can at night but after a couple hours you forget and go to bed waking up to a flood of nice clean water.
Making a large note to remind you to shut off the water and sticking it on the door only helped once.
After the clean up of the water and doing a water change you go to bed only to find you forgot to turn off the skimmer and it causes its own flood after the collection container overflows.

On a good note though - when having a power bar catch fire causing huge amounts of smoke - which will in turn causes the fire department to bust open the front door, not being able to see, go to the wrong end of the house and put 2 large holes in the wall behind the computers but come up with no fire - they head to the front room and use Co2 everywhere - which mixed with smoke kills all your livestock in your tank by morning - still no fire but the smoke is gone after busting out a window and opening the doors and using fans.
The next morning the cause of the fire is found - a expensive powerbar - but the heat from the fire melted a hole in the ro/di line making a perfect arc onto the power bar which either put it out or fueled the flame then put it out. Great - but the fire department failed to turn off the ro/di water and i had another flood.

Now i have a auto-shut-off for top ups and way to many spare towels but i know when its all running again i will find a way to make the floods return to my little corner of the world.

Jack wins though