Worst fish experiences?

the bottom of my 4 foot tank spilt, spilling 220l. of water onto the floor :mad: i was away as well. came back to a damp room...

lucky it didn't have any fish in it, i'd been growing my plants before introducing anything
 
Buying a psycho crayfish for one of my tanks. That bug ate everything-plants, fish, algae. I didn't mind eating the algae on bit, but after he killed his second fish, the crayfish went. Big mistake.

Another bad one was coming home to find my male red claw crab dead in the dining room-20 feet from the tank. Oops.
 
Originally posted by sumoschro
lol id have to say when i was a beginning aquarist i had a freshwater crab of some sort and an african dwarf frog and both of them escaped, and, well, we never found them.....
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I had the same thing with my fw crab. It escaped, never to be found again... Until my wife was cleaning under our bed... Man, my ears are still ringing :D
 
Last year I was working at a school where they kept all kinds of fish (its an oceanography school) and one day in the middle of winter i show up as usual to clean the tanks and feed all the fish for the teacher and all the tropical fish are belly up... the stupit teacher left the windows open that nite and the temp of the tanks all droped to about 30f..... and this man was susposed to have like 5 degrees in oceanography.
 
My worst experiance was...

As a n00b I bought a 55gallon and wanted something cool right away. I was given a free 10" red devil.

Little did I know he was WAY to big for a 55g, and he was constantly pissed. Constantly attacking the glass, and so big he was splashing water out.

I got rid of him quick.
 
Years ago, I was a fiend for Africans. Had a 110 set up with a collection of haps that I had grown from babies. Breeding groups of moorii, compressiceps (I know they're not haps anymore, but there were then), a few other odds and ends and a trio of gorgeous peacocks. Plus a few big balas as dithers. Note the sizes of those fish and the size of the tank, it was heavily stocked, but heavily filtered.

Went on my usual summer backpacking trip to the Sierras to regain my sanity, leaving my mom to take care of the tank. Came back after a week to find out that the filter had failed, and despite the best efforts of a coworker from the LFS I worked at, the tank crashed. All dead. Heartbreak. I couldn't even be mad, because that's the risk you take when you ask someone to watch your fish. On the positive side, it became my first SW tank.

The most unpleasant event happened when I lived inTucson. Went away to teach for a few weeks in the summer, and had my idiotic neighbor look in on my tank. It was a 29 with a breeding pair of angels, plus a small school of mature cherry barbs. At some point, the filter failed, and the cooler in the house went off. All dead. But the worst thing was that the little creep didn't even look in on the tank to remove the bodies. Imagine walking into the house, smelling the rotting soup of week old dead fish cooked in the Arizona summer. I almost hurled.

Now, every tank has backup circulation, and is stocked so that it can last a few days without power. The outages this summer tested the systems, and they came through fine. I'm still a little concerned about next week, when we both will be out of the country, but I have a reefer across the street I can trust to check things.
 
Had a 55G and a 10G (now have 150G). I cleaned out the 10G using clorox on some of the items that had algae. Works great! But I put everything back in the tank too soon!!! Lot every Tetra fish in there.

They started swimming funny and I realized what I did. Started a water change and netting them out, but it was too late :(

And the occasional jumper.
 
Bad gravel choice.

Unfortunatly the gravel I choose to use the first time, in my first tank (10g), HAD to be "painted" blue colored. The epoxy coating was diminished by the bacteria I used during cycling, and a couple of weeks after adding the fish my water became cloudy, murky almost. I noticed a lot of blue specks floating about in my water, which indicated to me that the gravel was the culprit. So I purchased natural gravel, with epoxy coating. I withdrew my fish from the tank, 7 adults and 8 fry(all gups). I emptied the tank 100% and scooped out the blue gravel. Added the new gravel, and a new filter cartridge, refilled the tank using AquaSafe. I re-acclimated all of the fish for about 20 minutes each. I must have watched those fish for a week constantly, hoping they'd survive such a drastic change. Fortunatly all of the fish survived, even the newborn fry, probably due the the bio-wheel.
 
Lost Shark

When I was first given a 10 gal fish tank, stocked, by a friend moving across the country, I was overwhelmed. I was really cautious at first. A couple of fish did not survive long after the transport to my house, and one fish was actually failing when I got it. With the recent deaths, I was reluctant to do anything to the tank.

My niece bought me a few interesting fish for Christmas to add to my tank, because she thought it was boring. One fish she bought me was a dwarf gourami. Then my mother had her heart set on buying me a shark. At the pet store, we were advised that a red-tailed shark and a dwarf gourami could easily live happily ever after in my tank. I took the shark home and put in the tank.

The next morning, my shark was missing, and the dwarf gourami looked beat up. My dwarf gourami died, and I found the shark when we moved seven months later.
 
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