Worst fish experiences?

I would assume so.... if it was outside the tank for seven months! :eek:


My worst fish experience.... hmmm.... was not knowing what I was doing when i bought my first betta.... and every time i cleaned the bowl i CLEANED THE BOWL. Scrubbed the gravel clean. Changed all the water. Then i wondered why he wasn't doing too well so i cleaned the bowl more. Well, he died, and I learned my lesson the hard way. (I was young, though :rolleyes: )
 
Well, other than a couple dead fishies when I started out... just last week I emptied about 5 gallons of water onto the carpet during my water change. The end of the siphon didn't stay in my bucket... and I didn't realize it until I was all done :D

Luckily the wife hasn't found out ;)
 
first starting out my new tank ::shudder:: i stocked it ful;l with goldfish before cycle and the temp was 78 LOL i was such a noob

also when i was setting up my 30 gal i was putting sand into a special spot i had made for my banjo catfish(they need sand to burrow) i missed the spot and dumped sand in my gravel and had to unplug the powerheads and remove the undergravel filter and then sort sand from rock :(
 
oh I also mixed red and natural gravel... I had the 2 seperate layers in the tank. But when I vaccumed, it got partly mixed up. After that, I thought it would look good to be totally mixed, but it looked terrible. So I spent about 12 hours sorting red from white :o
 
I've had several bad experiences with roomates and fishtanks. On more than one ocassion, a roomate or one of their guests decided that the fish wanted a sip of beer, liquor, etc. I always seemed to loose a fish or two after parties. :mad:

I also had roomates feed the fish without telling me. So, the fish were getting fed about 4 times per day. That didn't take long for decaying food, ammonia, dying fish, etc.

I'm so glad that I could afford to live alone the past couple of semesters! Now my fish live. :rolleyes:
 
Worst experience for me:

Male platy stressed female #1, got her to catch some bacterial infection. She developed ich, and the whole tank was infected shortly after. Moved her to the hospital tank, and treated the whole community tank. Lost female #2 (even with absense of male) as she managed to catch the same disease as #1 female, just before ich treatment.

Result:
- The male is now in a 15g tank's breeder net!. (The tank is full of fries, he was bothering them too much!)
- Female #1 is dead.
- Female #2 is still getting the bacterial treatment for the past 2 months! Not optimistic that she will live.

Positive experience:
- Now I know how to treat ich for the whole tank!
- Many fries are growing nicely from #1 and #2 females.

And I thought platies are supposed to be easy... :D
 
I must say my worst experience involved two amphibians in my tank. One was a 8" caecilan (a snake/wormlike amphibian) and my 3" african clawed frog. Well, the frog tried to eat the caecilan and didn't fare too well. He could basically swallow the poor thing's head, but that was about it. The caecilan decided it was time to leave. So he did. We had no idea what happened to him until about 3 years later when we moved. We found the caecilan or should I say his dried up, yet amazingly preserved body under our couch.
 
Two disasters in the same tank.

In my first aquarium bigger than 10 gallons, I reached too far too fast. I dreamed of a South American river tank for discus and dwarf rams. The only problem is that Oklahoma City water is so hard that it's like gravel running through the pipes. I was only paying attention to pH at the time, however. I read in my Cichlid book that Discus (Disci? :) ) like a pH of 6.0 or lower. The pH in the tank was sitting at about 7.6. SeaChem Acid buffer was barely moving the pH and I didn't yet know how patient I needed to be, so I resorted to "pH Down" (some off-brand that I have since repressed from my memory) It was sulphuric acid in a dropper bottle. I began dosing the tank at 24 hour intervals and nothing was happening, so I stepped up the schedule a little bit. I think I had the biochemical equivalent of a Chernobyl incident (system seeming stable against big adjustments until... WHAM!). In the space of about 5 minutes, the water in the tank (55 gallons) seemed to change to milk :sick: Total fish mortality :sad except for one (apparently mutant) corydoras. Total tank tear down, gravel washing, filter scrubbing etc. The only silver lining was that this disaster solved my first problem with the same tank...

I had purchased several small meek cichlids (oxymoron) from my LFS. Two of them were the real thing, but one was an interloper, the juvenile form of something more like a piranha :rolleyes: I was keeping schools of cardinals and neons in the tank, which kept getting smaller as the "small meek cichlid" kept getting bigger. I must have fed him two dozen very colorful meals before I put two and two together. I stopped buying the little tetras and he stopped growing so fast (the poor undernourished thing!) I didn't want to just execute him (her?) though, so he stayed in the tank (with other fish too big to eat) while I decided what to do. I figured he could stand to stay in the tank to keep the biofilter active while I brought the pH down for discus, and that is where this long story started. :D

Thanks for your patience, I hope that the (horrified) amusement I may have provided made it worth wading through such a long post.
 
buying a lace plant, and then seeing that my silver dollars decided it would make a good salad for them....

at work, i made a kid cry, when i told him taht we feed goldfish to the turtles....

i love it when people watch my net fish out so close that i cant even move, and then when i get the fish in the net, he go nuts making a rainshower of fish goo on them

no disasters at home really.. mabey just a damned pregnut platy that wont stop poppin em out!
 
Alrighty, so mine was death-free but here we go:

So I got the fluval 203 for my 30 gallon tank. And I really didn't know how to use it since I bought it 2nd hand (ie: no instructions!) Now, after setting it all up, I couldn't get it to start. So I was playing with everything, and I was told to suck on one of the tubes to get it going. So I did, and I ended up swallowing a lot of water and spitting the rest into the tank. heehee.. okay, so then I was like "Yay! I can get it to work!" So I did but I had the input out of the tank at the time. So about 5 gallons of water were all over my floor, along with my garbage can full of water, and everything on me was SOAKED. I think I ended up with more water than the fish did *sigh*
 
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