You know this past weekend was absolutely amazing as well as devastating let me tell you a quick story
So you guys know this last weekend. I was at reefa Palooza in New York
And before I left, I had a ton of things I needed to do including the past two videos that you guys watched
I filmed those both
The day before I left as well as I needed to prepare my talk in one of those videos
I set up the saltwater
Aquarium everything in one day again
Just really busy wanting to get ahead want to make sure that those that couldn't come still had videos to watch while I'm gone
By the way, the lionfish is doing absolutely amazing. One thing you'll notice directly beside the tank
Is the lid that we made weighs about 60 pounds no way
Absolutely. No way that snowflake eel could jump out but in my haste and and rushing and trying to get ready and
having so many things to remember I
Think you know where this is going. I got a message the following day for my wife saying this is what I woke up to
The snowflake eel was on the floor we all know they jump I've shown you guys many times
They jump I made such a small mistake
Entirely my fault and the poor guy jumped out of the tank. I feel horrible about it
That's how I started off my morning at wreath blues. I still had to give my talk
This is how it went in about 20 minutes. My talk is scheduled to start I guess start heading over there. I grab my laptop
I'm nervous
Always nervous to give this talk. I'm going to pour my heart out
Yo
So so many of you guys came from all over the world to see me people came from India
Canada all over the United States flying in I
Gotta say I absolutely appreciate that kind of support and love it's reciprocated. Of course. However, it certainly makes me nervous
No pressure, right? No pressure for this talk. All right running in now
Click my check. I'm coming. I'm coming. You lost people in there. No. Yeah, it's Danny remotely just for you
You guys always set records for these things when I show up absolutely phenomenal. Let's see how this goes Oh,
Boy took a look my man Christian in the back
This goes, well guys see what happens
We've seen this now
My wife is actually supposed to come on the trip with me
but things came up so she had to stay home with that said my talk was actually at
2:30 at around 3 o'clock my phones in my pocket
I could feel it start vibrating either some notifications from the gallery or a text message
It was really the only two things that'll make my pocket vibrate
No, I was only scheduled to talk for an hour and I didn't even use that entire hour
I think it was like 35 minutes 40 minutes
We did a Q&A and then of course for an hour - afterwards, I did some meet and greets with you guys
Absolutely loved the entire experience. However, I finally had an opportunity to check out what was going on in my pocket
No text messages, but I did have a ton of emails telling me
Nothing is communicating with your phone anymore from the gallery. You guys know that my pumps my lights
And I also have cameras out here that I can remotely control and view from my phone. I thought okay, maybe the internet is out
Or or perhaps then they're doing maintenance up the street or something and it's just a temporary thing. I
Text my wife and say hey is the internet okay for you? She says I'm not home. I'll be home in about 30 minutes
I said cool when you get home
Check the gallery make sure everything's fine. Then. My phone goes nuts about 30 minutes. Later
And it's her she needs to FaceTime me and it's an emergency. I
FaceTime her and she starts showing me this
She was walking through like six inches of water three inches of water, but leave the entire gallery was flooded
And the thing is I have a floor dream, but I plugged it because the damn mice outside
Told her to calm down find out what's leaking
She says there's no lights out here. The power is gone. She's like, I don't know what to do. Fantastic
I haven't shown her anything because she doesn't really have much interested being out here
I'm always in control out here and everything is typically running smoothly. But of course the one weekend, I leave a pipe
bursts on the return for the
2000 gallon aquarium
Really though it was just a pond hose that broke and essentially snapped off
and now the way that I designed this tank is that if even if it has half the amount of water in it that it
Needs the filtration can continue to run it can continue to suck water out and pump it back in but that's not what was happening
for about half an hour
So it was sucking water out of the tank and pumping it on to the floor about a thousand gallons worth
Unfortunately, there were a few things on the floor that tripped the entire building everything offline period no power no
Filtration no life support systems running. Absolutely
nothing and
About this much water on the floor out here
I'm trapped in New York. I immediately jump on my phone and try to book flights to get home right away
I'm thinking it's a two-hour flight. I got to be there two hours early. I can be there by midnight I can save this
No flights till the next day
Whoo, if it's not hard enough being me and trying to convince my family that hey all of this is normal
Don't worry about it. Just let me do it. Now. I have to ask her to fix one of the most devastating
Occurrences that the gallery and really my hobby has ever had so I tell her first things first
but I need you to do they start shop vacuum everything up before you do that open the control panel and slap all of the
power off
I don't want it jumping back on or maybe something will happen worst-case scenario
You get a little shocked and by little I mean it'll electrocute you shut all the power off and shop back luckily
I have some friends that came over and helped her. They had to shop backs going three hours later
She messaged me and says all the water is gone what next?
pretty simple Walker through all the walls
I need you to reset the breakers go on the panel flip that over
But unplug everything to the 2,000 gallon aquarium
the only thing that's gonna be able to run until I get home is the air but with
2000 gallons of water and you're at least a thousand gallons plenty of dilution. They'll be fine
It's like an extended power outage and the waters gonna be heated just not filtered. They'll be fine
So everything's back up and running in the two thousand gallon aquarium
We have four five freshwater stingrays and four, Asian Arowana
Not a big problem. This is getting a do-over
Immediately. It's not gonna look like this anymore
I have a plan anyways, Asian Arowana
Can be aggressive with each other trying to kill each other at times but based on the size of the aquarium the fact that there
Was four and there's a massive amount of room in here. They're getting along fantastically
But like I said, we lost a thousand gallons of water to the floor. There's only two thousand gallons of an aquarium
that's half the tank at the aquarium drained leaving them with half the the
territorial space what happened next
All hell broke loose. Okay. So now I want you to take a look at the guy in the back
Notice his fins if you can see him the lights are off in here right now
I've been keeping them off at the time being just to try to dilute some dank aggression and whatnot, but look at him
Fins are perfect
Look at this guy
What the hell has he gone to wait for the other one to come around the two reds
Same thing all ripped up
this guy
Beat up the other two, but remember I said there was four
I
Came home to not only the tank half empty and I have to replace the pipes and you know get things back up and running
But one of the Arowana the script is specifically
Was dead
Now it's never fun losing a fish it's never fun losing a big fish it's never fun losing a very
expensive and rare fish luckily
I was no no
Where's Claire stew being clear to being attached to that fish as heartless as it sounds there's so many fish in here
It's really difficult for me to build individual bonds with them
I love them all but it was nothing like when I lost buddy with that said
It's still
such a devastating occurrence a nice wake-up call and
Being a public figure such as myself of so many people watching
and I have to I
Have to share these experiences I have to
What do I do from now though, where do I go from here well as the saying goes you never really fail
you only ever learn so this is a great learning experience and
a fantastic
Opportunity to make this never happen again
Of course if things can happen they will happen for you freak occurrences happen
We all have our houses
What if a water pipe burst there's nothing we can do about it these things happen
And that's kind of what happened to me a pipe
Busted or a hose busted a pond hose very very thick
But it happened I need to make some changes I need to make sure nothing like this art word is to happen again
Luckily, my wife was here. Luckily. My friends were able to come. Luckily. I was able to communicate
And get everything backed up and going unfortunately
The 2,000 sitting empty for so long like 24 hours or so. She's probably a little bit more
36 hours
I couldn't get a flight to the very next day
That was the fastest I could do it cost me $1,000 to book it, but what am I gonna do?
But that said everybody's okay. I know you're probably gonna ask about Frank these guys lights on
He's looking Frank peered from the side Frank's girlfriend and then Frank both are doing fine. Don't worry about it. Oh
The Sharks are doing great as well eating if you follow me on Instagram
I've been doing some feedings on there and sharing all of other stuff there
I even revealed Frank's girlfriend's name there let yesterday
I just have fun there and you know short clips and whatnot, but the Sharks are doing fine. They're eating and
Every time I add food, we're gonna do a feeding video eventually. I'll feed every fish in here
I'm thinking maybe all hand feed every fish that I have
except
Maybe these guys, I don't know. Maybe I will they spend most of their time just over here no lights on this tank at all
What they're doing just fine if I when I drop in food they go after it they eat it all it's awesome
Love this tank. Love these sharks. Anyways, guys things happen to the best of us and
You know at the end of the day when you do have some problems or you do have something that happens in your hobby
Try to take from it as opposed to run from it, I guess
I'll see you guys getting on Sunday when we make some massive changes to this. Mm. I think that's what we're gonna do. We'll see