*"That's not suppose to happen!" Experience swap thread*

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

So when I first got my python water changer I used the gravel vac at the end but then it fell off one day and I never got to putting it back on and was using the python without the gravel vac at the end. Well one day while changing my water my 4" SB senegaus decides he wants to check it out. He try to swim very close to the tube to investigate but instead gets stuck in the tube. I was lucky that he was just big enough to not get sucked all the way to the sink that I was using. So I ended up turning the water off and cut about a 5" piece off my python that he's stuck in. I thought that once I did that he'd be able to swim out in his own but he was really stuck. So I ended up getting a rag and pulling him out. His head was a little read and he was obviously traumatized but he eventually healed and got over it because he almost tried it again a couple of days ago.

I did that once, I had a small clown loach get sucked up at some point, I did a head count and was missing one. A few days a latter I noticed a smell in the bathroom but couldnt locate it because it was very faint. Well I had to do another water change and noticed the water was not coming out as fast as normal so I took it apart and there was the missing loach.

 

[Dr.B]

I did that once, I had a small clown loach get sucked up at some point, I did a head count and was missing one. A few days a latter I noticed a smell in the bathroom but couldnt locate it because it was very faint. Well I had to do another water change and noticed the water was not coming out as fast as normal so I took it apart and there was the missing loach.

Yeah lol back in the rookie days I didn't know swordtails could and would jump from the tank. So one day I was missing it I thought it just died and got eaten or something by the other swordtails in the tank. Well 2 years after I move the fish tank to reposition it in the room and there it was stiff as a rock in a U position. It was nasty because it landed on a piece of paper and when it died all the fluids came out into the paper so it was stuck to the paper surrounded by red/brown/orange fluids. Surprisingly it didn't smell bad at all which is why I suspect it went undetected for so long

 

[mattison187]

Yeah lol back in the rookie days I didn't know swordtails could and would jump from the tank. So one day I was missing it I thought it just died and got eaten or something by the other swordtails in the tank. Well 2 years after I move the fish tank to reposition it in the room and there it was stiff as a rock in a U position. It was nasty because it landed on a piece of paper and when it died all the fluids came out into the paper so it was stuck to the paper surrounded by red/brown/orange fluids. Surprisingly it didn't smell bad at all which is why I suspect it went undetected for so long

Lol you should have took pics. Or saved the swordtail.

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[yogurt_21]

Secure lid means Secure lid! and keep it quiet! Several of my tropical fish are overwintering in my 125g tank, I was moving a computer out of the den when I dropped the keyboard. These being used to the pond instantly swam away from the noise...

In an 18 foot round pond that's fine. But in a 18 inch wide tank? Yeah that didn't work out. My red Oscar hits the lid and I hear him flapping around up there. I put the computer down and take a look. Aparently he hit the feeder door, popped it clean open and was sitting there on his side.

I put him back in and then I had to figure out how to properly secure the feeder door so this wouldn't happen again. Here I was thinking "hey it's covered, it's fine." and my 9 year old Oscar shows me otherwise. Good thing I don't have any eels lol.

 

[Runitis]

Snooks and rtm

Tire track eel and festae

Pleco and banjo cats with dimerus

Cichlids are so unpredictable. Sometimes will live with everyone then switch one thing boom likes no one. I could go on.

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[brich999]

Made lots of mistakes through the years, but the worst I can remember was adding a couple pacu to my old 500g tank with a huge ray, big bass, catfish and other monsters. The moment I added the 2 pacu (about 9-10") they darted to one end, hit the acrylic and turned around. They started to dart to the other end and my big mama henlei grabbed one and smothered him under her disc. I ended up saving the pacu by sliding her around the bottom by poking her with a piece of pvc I had close. She eventually let him go and they lived together for months happily

 

[mattison187]

Wow that's crazy. I've never heard of ray agression before.

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