Are you just trying to boost your self-esteem at my expense, Dave? I never
even told my spouse about this one...

I was doing weekly maintenance on the 180 gallon tank. I removed about four
5 gallon buckets of water, pushed the filter output off to the side and
balanced the light hood along the back of the tank. I had immersed my arms
up to the shoulder and was pruning plants, when three things happened...

1. I realized just how far off to the side I had pushed the filter output
spout because my socks started squishing, and
2. Cursing vigorously, I knocked the light hood into the tank, and
3. I finally understood the importance of using UL approved electrical
devices over large bodies of water that have your arms in them.

Feel better now?

kush

Dave Millman wrote ...

My second worst mistake was not planting lots of fast-growing plants on
day one... but my guess is most people on the group have made that error
at one time or other and know
the result.

Or have made the error over and over and over again thinking, "yeah, but
THIS time it will be O.K.!"

kush