One day my dad decides hes going to do a 100% water change because winter is here. I come home to find him changing 10k gallons worth of water with low 30 degree F water right out the hose when its snowing with no water conditioner. Had about 80 fish koi/goldfish and two carp die. The shock did kill off a decent amount but he added about two bottles of highly concentrated copper based algae killer thinking it was water conditioner which killed most of the reaming stock. Never thought someone could be so clueless continuing to shock/burn/kill the fish after telling him what hes doing is wrong, my dad is Hitler of the fish species.
What's the most grusome death one of your fish has suffered?
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I ordered a baby stingray a little while ago, she was origionaly going to grow out in my 120 with arowana, H.temporalus, and gruop of G.balzani. I've heard good things about tile and since it would be really easy to clean I went with tile for the substrate because the gravel would probably scratch the ray. The stingray came about 3" smaller than I thought so I put her in my 55 sand bottom tank until she was large enough for the 120. I thought the tile looked cool so I left it in there. I didn't do any research on the tile and I wasn't sure if it was fish safe. Little did I know I was about to find out. The paint on the tile had some chemical that went into the tank. It litterally made the skin on the fish melt off and their fins could no longer move. Then their eyes got cloudy and they started to look (and act) like zombies. The next morning the 18" aro and balzani where dead. The chocolate cichlid seemed fine and happy. The big girl is still alive today. When I flushed the aro he ended up clogging the toilet. I still haven't gotten over losing him.
One of my Widebar dollars a year ago when it was around 5" in a panic as they can do he slammed up into a powerhead pushing his eye way down into his throat crushing the area around the eye socket. He lived for a day before succumbing to its injury.
Clogged the toilet... Oh lord I would run out the house and start ripping my lawn out and begin biting bark off the trees.
It is always my first thing in the morning routine, check my tank - And on that Sunday morning to my surprise there is no one swimming, my heartbeat was so fast while walking closely to the tank and on the floor my cold hard "Gabriel" a 16in Silver Arowana. He jumped out of the tank, slammed on the floor and gasped for air till his last breathe and I wasn't there to help my Gabriel 
I will not forget that morning for I wept for him...To pay respect I buried him for he was first beloved Arowana.
I will not forget that morning for I wept for him...To pay respect I buried him for he was first beloved Arowana.I got 4 dozen cute little guppies and I put them in with my goonch, the next morning they were all gone. I was heart broken
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my dad had a giant gourami before. he bought it from a friend at 5"long(i didnt actually remember) 3yrs later, he went on a trip. while he was on the trip he told me to change the water which i didnt know how to back then because i was still inexperienced on fishkeeping. after i changed it, about two days later, he was gasping for air at the top of the tank. i didnt know what to do. we took him out and his tummy is bloated. i test the water with anti-chlorine tester and my god, i didnt put enough anti-chlorine in it. a few hrs after tht he left us, which was one of the most greatest loss we've ever had, especially my dad. it made him quit the hobby until now. our gg died on the 29th of november 2009. gosh, i still remember the date. we knew tht if we bought a new gg, it wouldnt be the same as before. makes my dad feel sad everytime we watch some videos of him tht my dad took. RIP our beloved red tail gg.
One of my young Orinos got sucked down into my PVC overflow and got stuck in my filter sock for about 6 hours. After noticing my stock was short I found him and put him back in the tank. He had hardly any fins left and was blind. He lasted a sad two days before he was belly up stuck in between some drift wood .
.My cat fished out my needle nose gar. I chased her around the house until I finally got the fish back.
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