survival stories.....

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tim watson

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hello...
when i first started this hobby, i bought 6 yellow tetras from lfs. over about a week 4 of them died.(i had not heard of fishLESS cycling yet) anyways the water quality was really bad in this 10g and the 2 fish left had caught some bacterial infection and their whole face basically dossolved right up until their eyes. you could actually see their jaw bone poking out!! i did not use and medication, and they slowly healed up and are still alive today( about a year later!) my rainbow shark also jumped out of the net while transfering him and he flipped into the bin!!


anyone else have any good stories of fish survival!???
 
I inherited a few fish from a friend of my husband who was breaking his tank down permanently. He didn't say why, and I wasn't going to ask....free fish tank and fish is free fishtank and fish....

Anyway, I got these critters home, and boy, were they ever in bad shape. I had 2 corydoras, 2 silver dollars, a bala shark, and an iridescent shark on my hands, ALL of which had some degree of fin-rot or another.... the cory's didn't have fins left at all, to be exact. They just kind of laid on the bottom of the tank and wiggled.... Anyway,I treated the tank for close to a month and I managed to keep them all alive, and all but one of them regained their fins completely....one little cory didn't regrow any of his fins, but he lived for close to a year without the benefit of them....

I'm just glad I got the fish when I did, otherwise, the guy was killing them.... I'm sure it wasn't intentional though, he was just unaware of how to fix his problem....
 
A few months back, lady who works with my wife asked if we wanted a tank and some fish. We said sure. It turned out to be a 29G with stand, filter and lights.

We didn't even know what kind of fish were in tank because water was almost brown. The guy who owned it didn't even have a bucket or way to drain water(good thing we brought our siphon hose, huh?).

We wound up with......2 Jewel Cichlids, 2 Convicts, 2 Electric Yellow, 1 Botia of some kind and 1 Pl*co(all of these fish are about 4 inches long :eek: and when you add in the 8 inch Lepodinus(sp) Fasciatus, you can imagine what we faced. We got everyone home and cleaned tank out and set it back up. Didn't think the Lepodinus was going to make it but he did.

Well since then, we've added another tank to house and our 55G now houses the 2 Yellows, 2 Convicts, Lepodinus, 1 Pl*co. The Lepodinus went into one of the log ornaments and we haven't seen him come out. We see his tail sticking out but that's it. The 29G only has the 2 Jewels, a Botia, and Pl*co. We hardly ever see any of these fish since we have pleny of hiding places for them.
 
When I was younger I had a land lubbing goldfish. We didn't have a hood on our tank so at least once a month we'd wake up to find him on the floor. He was a tough one though, we'd scoop him up and put him back in, and he'd live. I think we had him for 3 or 4 years. And he didn't die of natural causes either...my sisters were fighting near the tank and one thing lead to another...:eek: and well...he met his end.
 
I had a betta in a small tank. I would take him out to clean the tank (easier to move the tank than to siphon and bucket). He was sitting in a small bowl when my Mom came and made me go shopping with her. I forgot about the fish. Came home 2 hours later. Walked into the kitchen, and couldn't figure out why there was an bowl of water on the kitchen counter...Figured it out, and looked down to find the poor guy dried out and stuck to the floor. I soaked him until his fins came unstuck and put him back in the tank. He shed his mucus coat, but lived another 3 years.

Before that, we were moving, and had the tanks (2 10 gallons) about 1/4 drained, fish and all in the tanks. Also moving with us were 2 cats. The tanks were covered with towels to prevent splashing. One of the cats went to walk across one of the tanks, and started falling in (pulling the towel down with her). I turned around and tried to grab the cat, smacking the side of the tankwith my elbow. It shattered. So, on the side of the highway, by hand, we transferred all the fish from the browkn tank into the other one (I can't even recall what all was in there--most of it not appropriate for a ten, I know now). All the fish survived until we made it down and into our new home.
 
Once upon a time there was a fish named Miracle. How did she get that name? One day I noticed her laying on the bottom of the tank. No breathing, no movement at all. I gave the swordtail a traditional burial at sea. **disclaimer** (I no longer flush fish.) After putting Miracle in the toliet bowl she suddeningly came back to life! She began to swim around and lived for several years.
 
Back in the day when I was just starting out with only a 20gal I went to visit my LFS to buy more fish. After finally getting a clerk to asist me I pointed out what fish I had wanted. Can't remember what kind it was at the moment. Anyway she was in the process of trying to net it when......all of a sudden......it jumped out of the tank and landed on the counter in front of us. I then looked at her smiled and said "Well, I don't think that I want that fish anymore." Then we both laughed. I think, if I remember this right, she then just scooped it up and put it back in the tank.
 
I have an apple snail the size of a tennis ball. One morning I looked in the tank and no snail. There she was laying on the floor her shell was broken and he insides were exposed. She fell about 5 feet onto a hardwood floor. I picked her up and put her in a box with a damp paper towel, I went to a boat supply store and got some marine epoxy. I broke an egg and cut a piece of eggshell the size of the hole in the snail and glued it to her shell to make a patch. I put her in a hospital tank where she sat motionless for about a week, pink stuff was oozing out of her. Then suddenly she started eating again. She is still alive today. and much, much bigger.
 
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