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Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sent

by rob74 4y ago

Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...

tazjin 4y ago
> it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt It probably helped that it happened at 6AM ...
- Reason077 4y ago
  Yes, it could have been much worse if it had happened at, say, 6PM. Although some hotel lobbies can start to get busy even at that hour (airport hotels, etc).
- petodo 4y ago
  even earlier, 5:30-5:45 actually reported by guests, 5:43 fire alarm after broken front glass preliminary cause - material fatigue
- pcan77 4y ago
  as someone who has an aquarium, i'm amazed it didn't happen in the middle of the night. Any time I've had an overflow issue or something, it's always in the middle of the night and my water sensor is blaring
  - browningstreet 4y ago
    I’m renting a house with three bathrooms. Two of the three toilets, on separate occasions, spontaneously cracked and leaked water. Both happened between 5am and 6am-ish. I was awake for one and heard it, and woke up shortly after the other one happened and found my kitchen flooded. The cracks in the two toilet water tanks were identical. Given the comments about the water temp and lobby temps, I’m guessing that hour and temperature changes could be linked. I was able to get the owner of the house to see the wisdom of replacing the third toilet water tank.
koheripbal 4y ago
- throw6383878 4y ago
  There was first cold weather recently as well. November was VERY mild.
- hutzlibu 4y ago
  And you do have first hand information, that this was the reason, as you speak with such authority of that matter? Like, you do know that the temperature in that hotel was significantly lower than last year? I mean, it seems possible, that it was the reason, (even though the water temperature itself hopefully did not change as the fishs do not like that) and the last nights were quite cold in germany, so stress from temperature difference is possible, but before I claim to know something, I wait until I know.
- throw827474737 4y ago
  That is one eventual first quick assumption by some (mostly nontechnical journalists), but nothing official and confirmed, or you have sources? Otherwise please don't sell this as fact. Knowing the place, it still had heating, so I personally find this also unreasonable.. would only make sense to me if it got to freezing temperatures or below 4°C, but that for sure wasn't the case.. I doubt that place was much colder than at other times, like maybe 2-4 degrees.. but if you have any real details on that this would be welcome.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  Most fishtanks have to stay in a pretty narrow range of temperatures or the fish die. A big professional installation like this I expect will have both water heating and water cooling (aircon, but for water). And in a glass fishtank, the glass is in good thermal contact with the water, but bad thermal contact with the room air - so the glass will end up being at fishtank temperature. So, unless they had extracted all the fish and turned the tank heating off, I don't think what you say is true.
  - 4y ago

by rob74 4y ago

tazjin 4y ago

> it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt It probably helped that it happened at 6AM ...

Reason077 4y ago
Yes, it could have been much worse if it had happened at, say, 6PM. Although some hotel lobbies can start to get busy even at that hour (airport hotels, etc).
petodo 4y ago
even earlier, 5:30-5:45 actually reported by guests, 5:43 fire alarm after broken front glass preliminary cause - material fatigue
pcan77 4y ago
as someone who has an aquarium, i'm amazed it didn't happen in the middle of the night. Any time I've had an overflow issue or something, it's always in the middle of the night and my water sensor is blaring
- browningstreet 4y ago
  I’m renting a house with three bathrooms. Two of the three toilets, on separate occasions, spontaneously cracked and leaked water. Both happened between 5am and 6am-ish. I was awake for one and heard it, and woke up shortly after the other one happened and found my kitchen flooded. The cracks in the two toilet water tanks were identical. Given the comments about the water temp and lobby temps, I’m guessing that hour and temperature changes could be linked. I was able to get the owner of the house to see the wisdom of replacing the third toilet water tank.

koheripbal 4y ago

throw6383878 4y ago
There was first cold weather recently as well. November was VERY mild.
hutzlibu 4y ago
And you do have first hand information, that this was the reason, as you speak with such authority of that matter? Like, you do know that the temperature in that hotel was significantly lower than last year? I mean, it seems possible, that it was the reason, (even though the water temperature itself hopefully did not change as the fishs do not like that) and the last nights were quite cold in germany, so stress from temperature difference is possible, but before I claim to know something, I wait until I know.
throw827474737 4y ago
That is one eventual first quick assumption by some (mostly nontechnical journalists), but nothing official and confirmed, or you have sources? Otherwise please don't sell this as fact. Knowing the place, it still had heating, so I personally find this also unreasonable.. would only make sense to me if it got to freezing temperatures or below 4°C, but that for sure wasn't the case.. I doubt that place was much colder than at other times, like maybe 2-4 degrees.. but if you have any real details on that this would be welcome.
londons_explore 4y ago
Most fishtanks have to stay in a pretty narrow range of temperatures or the fish die. A big professional installation like this I expect will have both water heating and water cooling (aircon, but for water). And in a glass fishtank, the glass is in good thermal contact with the water, but bad thermal contact with the room air - so the glass will end up being at fishtank temperature. So, unless they had extracted all the fish and turned the tank heating off, I don't think what you say is true.
- 4y ago