If you do, I would like to read them. Something like how you thought your fish died, and then 20 years later, it reappeared. 
Do you have any odd or amazing fish stories?
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Not 20 years, but in my first tank, which was a 1 gallon hex, I lost a male fancy guppy for like a month. I think i my sister found it in a shell, i was like 10 years old.
reading the storys on this site makes one want to get a red devil. they make it sound like such fun.
http://www.reddevilfish.co.uk/Red_Devil_Behavior.htm
http://www.reddevilfish.co.uk/Red_Devil_Behavior.htm
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I once kept 3 goldfish in a small pond in my backyard. We were sure they were gone at the beginning of the summer, my mom actually spent nearly an hour one day searching for them and we concluded that they must have been picked off by an animal or bird or something. The goldfish were never seen until the end of the season when we were taking the water out of the pond, all three of them suddenly appeared and 2 of them are still alive today (4 years later) in a 35 gallon aquarium.
Another interesting one..When I was rather young I had a 10 gallon community aquarium with some gouramis, tetras, the usual suspects for a beginner's aquarium, and a pl*co. One day we had company over, a small boy who was over at the house was playing with the tank and turned the heater all the way to the highest setting. We went away that weekend and came back to find the tank water scorching hot. There was nearly nothing left of the fish, they had all been dissolved beyond recognition...except the pl*co. The pl*c somehow survived this ordeal and continued to live a healthy life afterwards, how it survived the heat of the water is beyond my comprehension, I do not have an exact figure on the temperature, but it was like bath water, easily in the mid-90s.
Another interesting one..When I was rather young I had a 10 gallon community aquarium with some gouramis, tetras, the usual suspects for a beginner's aquarium, and a pl*co. One day we had company over, a small boy who was over at the house was playing with the tank and turned the heater all the way to the highest setting. We went away that weekend and came back to find the tank water scorching hot. There was nearly nothing left of the fish, they had all been dissolved beyond recognition...except the pl*co. The pl*c somehow survived this ordeal and continued to live a healthy life afterwards, how it survived the heat of the water is beyond my comprehension, I do not have an exact figure on the temperature, but it was like bath water, easily in the mid-90s.
A few years ago we had 'walking catfish' in our yard and backyard porch! The air was filled with the smell of fish! The neighbor had 3 in her pool! We had lots of rain and some storms were on the severe side.. We are not near any major waterways (8 miles shouldn't count...)... There is a small man-made 'retention pond' about 1/4 to 1/2 mile away, but it shouldn't hold that many fish. All the other neighbors we talked with said they had them too.
I guess we had 4 of them. I took 3 to pond across the other side of the neighborhood and put the one in our 'water-garden'. The next day it was gone. Our neighbor was a bit lazy and hers died in her pool.
They were small catfish less than a foot long, and we don't know where they came from. I'll get a pic of one on our porch. ...Let me dig for it....
I guess we had 4 of them. I took 3 to pond across the other side of the neighborhood and put the one in our 'water-garden'. The next day it was gone. Our neighbor was a bit lazy and hers died in her pool.
They were small catfish less than a foot long, and we don't know where they came from. I'll get a pic of one on our porch. ...Let me dig for it....
This is not an aquarium story, but it is about fish, and it is true.
Several years ago I bought a dozen live killes to use as fish bait. I had to cut the fishing short, and still had most of the killies. I brought them home in the bait bucket, drained most of the water, and put the killies and some water in a zip lock bag, which I placed in the freezer. A week later, I took the frozen block of water and killies with me back to the inlet for more fluke (summer flounder) fishing. Before I left the house, I put a few inches of water in the bucket, and put the killies cube into the bucket to melt. About an hour later I arrived at the inlet, and looked in that bucket. I saw a bunch of dead defrosting killies, and one weakly swimming live one.
I honest to God felt my blood run cold. I carried that killy to a shallow part of the bay, and released it. I can't explain how this common Fundulus bait killy survived a week while frozen in a small block of ice, but it did.
Several years ago I bought a dozen live killes to use as fish bait. I had to cut the fishing short, and still had most of the killies. I brought them home in the bait bucket, drained most of the water, and put the killies and some water in a zip lock bag, which I placed in the freezer. A week later, I took the frozen block of water and killies with me back to the inlet for more fluke (summer flounder) fishing. Before I left the house, I put a few inches of water in the bucket, and put the killies cube into the bucket to melt. About an hour later I arrived at the inlet, and looked in that bucket. I saw a bunch of dead defrosting killies, and one weakly swimming live one.
I honest to God felt my blood run cold. I carried that killy to a shallow part of the bay, and released it. I can't explain how this common Fundulus bait killy survived a week while frozen in a small block of ice, but it did.