Flooded

I came into work today to a minor disaster.

As our aquatic plant tank -the one holding our hornwort plants- had clogged up. As it tends to do because Hornwort likes to shred and get little pieces of itself everywhere.

And nobody noticed in time.

So water kept flowing into the tank....but no water was flowing out of the tank because the strainer basket got all clogged up. *exhales*

And when the water levels reached the top of the tank...it overflowed. Dripping down into the tanks below that one.

And one of the tanks below that one...was our Hermit Crab tank.

Our LAND Hermit Crab tank.

Aka the tank that shouldn't be filled to the brim with water. 

But it was.

The tank had filled all the way to the top and was dripping the excess water onto the floor.

And the poor hermit crabs within it were just like at the edge of the glass waving their claws around like "Help me!!" 

Honestly, I was surprised they were still alive.

I frantically grabbed a small container and scooped out the Hermit Crabs I could see. 

And then set to work scooping out the water from the tank into a bucket and rescuing more Hermit Crabs as they became visible in the swirling dirty mess.

At least five of the poor things had come out of their shells.

But surprisingly...I think all of them may have survived.

Time will tell though.

But yah. It looks like they all managed to survive their deep water bath. 

*shakes head*

What a way to start out Christmas Eve though. Yaaaaay early morning stress lol. 

-Sarnic Dirchi