What is the grossest thing you've done in the aquarium hobby!

[Redearsunfish]

Manually Priming my Eheim 2217's. Always get a mouthful of aquarium water which usually ends up spat on the wall bc I don't make it to the bucket lol. I have got to invest in their manual pump to prime them lol

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Me too!

 

[Naos1984]

My previous goldfish tank smells like death one afternoon. I searched all over and cannot find anything. I removed an overflow PVC pipe during the search and have to put it back. Started manually priming and it started smelling very tragic. Some water got in my mouth. I continued. Water flow is very low compared to usual. What? Why? Decided, I'd take the overflow PVC pipe apart. Shake, shake, look, look. Behold! A dead partially rotten 1" ranchu in the pipe. So that is why I cannot find him and then "Oh, flesh eating bacteria in my lungs!"

 

[kavin2845]

My previous goldfish tank smells like death one afternoon. I searched all over and cannot find anything. I removed an overflow PVC pipe during the search and have to put it back. Started manually priming and it started smelling very tragic. Some water got in my mouth. I continued. Water flow is very low compared to usual. What? Why? Decided, I'd take the overflow PVC pipe apart. Shake, shake, look, look. Behold! A dead partially rotten 1" ranchu in the pipe. So that is why I cannot find him and then "Oh, flesh eating bacteria in my lungs!"

EWWWWW!!!! 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖


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[killzmke]

I think everyone's sucked up some gross water with poop or a dead fish in it.

 

[otmmy]

Dunno how gross it is to you folks but I do this regularly when fishing.

Glass minnows for feeding my peacock bass I used to have. My fiance dared me to eat one, not knowing that I eat them regularly when I'm fishing for crappie lol.

Live, and wiggling, especially when they are in your stomach.

I did this when I was younger my cousins and I were at a lake fishing and we decided to take a break and go for a swim. Then we thought it would be fun to try and catch minnows well I caught one and they dared me to eat it lol. So naturaly being a kid and someone daring you to do something you kinda had to do it. So I opened my mouth up and dropped the still flailing minnow in. It felt weird in my mouth then when I went to go swallow it got stuck in my throat so I had to grab a gulp of water from the lake to get it down. Now I dont know what was worse the live minnow or the taste of the filthy lake water.

 

[Nman]

Getting a mouth full of poop water from a tank the got taken down by ick aweful


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[woofy]

We had some incident once where one of our tanks threw up their entire meal of silversides. So i was left with the task of pick up all 10-15 chunks of fish vomit silverside pieces and i would drop them in a cup but one piece splattered as it landed. it was all over my face and mouth

I of course have had my share of siphon tank water in mouth, oh and when i rinse the filters out sometime the hose water pressure would be to strong and it would back splash and i would be showered in brown filter goop. Its awesome.

Sometime its not even worth wearing a nice shirt during tank maintenance :/


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[NixMix]

I love this thread!

 

[kavin2845]

We had some incident once where one of our tanks threw up their entire meal of silversides. So i was left with the task of pick up all 10-15 chunks of fish vomit silverside pieces and i would drop them in a cup but one piece splattered as it landed. it was all over my face and mouth

I of course have had my share of siphon tank water in mouth, oh and when i rinse the filters out sometime the hose water pressure would be to strong and it would back splash and i would be showered in brown filter goop. Its awesome.

Sometime its not even worth wearing a nice shirt during tank maintenance :/


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I never knew fish threw up 😂


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[Pbass265]

I went on my honeymoon and my ac went out while I was gone for 10 days. 5 bluegill died in my 125 and my filter lost its prime during a power outage. I got back and had to take them out in chunks and with the gravel vac. It made the whole house smell rotten. Even worse I have an incredibly weak stomach and kept throwing up. My father in law tried to clean a bit out before we got home while checking on the house but couldn’t do it all.