Anyone have fish fears...I do. Let's Share!

[sublime1184]

Recently I have had a fear of my Red Bellied Piranhas jumping out of the water and on to the floor\my bed. This fear is especially common among Piranha owners, thinking that they will find their fish dead on the floor. If I didn't have a light hood, this would surely have happened. This has happened to many piranha owners, who often find dead fish on the floor....the scary part is when you have to pick them up...using your hands? I don't think so!! They may still be alive and bite ya! Many times, I hear them banging into the hood and light and heaters....etc.....even with the hood, there is still a 1-1.5 inch space between where you knock out sections for HOB PF and heaters and so on. Scary...quite often I fear it when they eat floating cichlid pellets. They hunt the pellets when the water from the HOB power filter pushes the pellets down into the water more...very aggressive. Also, as an interesting side note, when one has bitten the others tail, the injured one fans the bite mark into plants, to sooth the pain I suppose. Their missing tail chunks grow back very fast, and I assume that was an accident. Never know....anyway...got any fish fears of your own...I'd love to hear em...

 

[windeindoiel]

I'm scared that one day I'm going to walk into the kitchen and my bichir will have the front of his body poking out the gap by the filter. Staring at me with those cute little eyes being all 'look mom, I can breathe!'

 

[Matak]

I've got Neons, Otos, and shrimpses in my tank. I use the bucket brigade method for water changes. I always check the bottom of the buckets before pouring the waste water down the sink even though I know it is virtually impossible for one of the little critters to pass by the sieve in the siphon tube. I also wonder if a little guy is still attached to a driftwood cavity when I take it out and also if something has crawled down the intake tube of my RFUGF prefilter when I clean it out.

<< But I don't worry

Seeing as this is directly fish related, do I get a post count for this?

 

[beviking]

Fear of fish? Are you kidding? Maybe you should be afraid of yawning while on a lake and have one jump into your throat and gag you to death? Or what's that little one that follows the warm flow and swims up your urethra? As for fish jumping on the floor...you've got a boot don't you? And there's a lfs down the street? Git 'er done!!!

 

[125gJoe]

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Seeing as this is directly fish related, do I get a post count for this?

Naa, won't work in here..

 

[Matak]

Fear of fish? Are you kidding? Maybe you should be afraid of yawning while on a lake and have one jump into your throat and gag you to death? Or what's that little one that follows the warm flow and swims up your urethra? As for fish jumping on the floor...you've got a boot don't you? And there's a lfs down the street? Git 'er done!!!

Sigh, I'm such a Nancy pants, Mr. testosterone

 

[jonathan03]

I was hesitant to clean the piranha tank I had but it had full gorwn red bellies. Thhey never jumped out, but would always moved round and bump things at night. IMO, they are not agressive fish at all. They are very shy and act agressively only by fear/hunger. It seems that they think everyone wants to kill them and the only way to survive is to kill them first

I would move your tank not because of them jumping out, but because I wouldn't want to spill any water on my bed. Water is bound to get out of the tank by accident during a water change or from the fish jumping.

Just for your reference, if a piranaha would jump out of the tank, its not just going to sit there. Expect it to flip around with every muscle in its body. You might find it 10 or more feet from the tank if it does jump out.

 

[Debra Mark]

Before we had the big tank up and running, we developed a leak in the 412 and were losing about 50 gallons per day. My greatest fear was to come home from work & find a catastrophe in the basement. I used to dream about the fish tank breaking....between my husband and myself we would get up 4-6 times every night to creep downstairs to check everything out. Thankfully, the big tank was finished & everyone moved over before anything happened!

 

[Holly9937]

I would not do any cleaning on the tank, it kind of freaked me out when the fish touched me!! Not a good fear to have when you keep fish . But since I have become obsessed and am up to 3 tanks, my husband wants little to do with it and I can't push the job off on him anymore!

 

[Hunter74]

I don't really have a fear of the fish. My fear is the tank either leaking or the stand giving out. I know my stand is suppose to hold the 50 gallon tank, but still thats alot of weight.