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

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In the 70s, I had a pair of ornates that would not spawn. So I read up on influencing spawns and decided to try injecting each poly with 1.0cc of PMSG. I found a farm that had what I needed. I followed a horse around, while carrying a bucket, until she had to pee. When she started, I had to hurry to her without spooking her, and get the bucket underneath her to catch the sample I needed. The elbow gloves and vet's apron did nothing to keep me dry. Then, of course, I had to get the bucket back to school without upsetting it too much in the back of my car.
See, PMSG is 'Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin'. I needed it to stimulate the ornates to spawn. It's what had to be done before the commercially-available Ovi-Prim.
 
Damn Oddball, i think that pretty much goes to show just how far you're willing to go for the greater good of the hobby...

So my hats off to you Sir :)

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Did you inject them with straight urine or do you somehow extract the PMSG from the horse pee?

By the way, I can't help but imagine you as Will Farrell in "Land of the Lost" collecting dinosaur pee.... :nilly:

Oddball said:
In the 70s, I had a pair of ornates that would not spawn. So I read up on influencing spawns and decided to try injecting each poly with 1.0cc of PMSG. I found a farm that had what I needed. I followed a horse around, while carrying a bucket, until she had to pee. When she started, I had to hurry to her without spooking her, and get the bucket underneath her to catch the sample I needed. The elbow gloves and vet's apron did nothing to keep me dry. Then, of course, I had to get the bucket back to school without upsetting it too much in the back of my car.
See, PMSG is 'Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin'. I needed it to stimulate the ornates to spawn. It's what had to be done before the commercially-available Ovi-Prim.
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I chewed up and swallowed a 2" feeder goldfish. I had no idea their skulls were crunchy like whoppers.

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I think I just surpassed every gross thing I've ever done w/ an aquarium..... Reading all 11 pages of this thread!

:barf::barf::barf::barf::barf::barf:

:)
 
Dan F said:
Did you inject them with straight urine or do you somehow extract the PMSG from the horse pee?

By the way, I can't help but imagine you as Will Farrell in "Land of the Lost" collecting dinosaur pee.... :nilly:
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The urine was chilled. spun, and decanted to separate serum from the urea. The PMSG was in the serum.
 
I flushed a questionable sized dead pleco down the toilet. Doesn't seem to gross right? The next day I am sitting on said toilet and I have to perform a "courtesy flush" if you know what I mean. So I'm sitting there and wondering why is my ass gettiing wet?!!! I jump up only to have sewage dump out on the floor. Wait, wait, it gets better. So I try valiantly to plunge but to no avail. So I try to snake it, nope, this is an old toilet and I can't get the dam snake to make the corner. I decide I have to pull the toilet off. I pull the toilet but it is still plugged!! I reach up underneath and pulled out a stiff dead pleco covered in toilet paper and my feces at which point the toilet is no longer plugged and empties the rest of the raw sewage on the floor.
 
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