worst thing to happen to you in fishkeeping?

[Hybridfish7]

for me:
- oxygen cutoff to a 55 gallon community when I was 6
killed a couple hundred dollars worth of discus, dwarf cichlids and schooling fish. In hindsight probably too small for all of that but the only survivors were a single black skirt, a cutteri, a single tiger barb, and a bolivian ram
- camallanus outbreak 1
easy to contain just pretty devastating because it took out some of my breeding projects at the time.
- camallanus outbreak 2
spread to my entire fishroom, killed off about a quarter of my fish at the time
- foot long rat drowning in pond full of expensive guppies
i touched on it in another thread, i made a screen lid to prevent birds and dragonflies but still allow mosquitoes and light to get through, put holes in the side to prevent flooding, threw a bunch of plants in and dosed algae to make greenwater so fry would survive
there were probably about 100 dumbo guppies in there the week before, and when i went to pull them there was just a male, a female, and 2 fry.

 

[Joshuakahan]

for me:
- oxygen cutoff to a 55 gallon community when I was 6
killed a couple hundred dollars worth of discus, dwarf cichlids and schooling fish. In hindsight probably too small for all of that but the only survivors were a single black skirt, a cutteri, a single tiger barb, and a bolivian ram
- camallanus outbreak 1
easy to contain just pretty devastating because it took out some of my breeding projects at the time.
- camallanus outbreak 2
spread to my entire fishroom, killed off about a quarter of my fish at the time
- foot long rat drowning in pond full of expensive guppies
i touched on it in another thread, i made a screen lid to prevent birds and dragonflies but still allow mosquitoes and light to get through, put holes in the side to prevent flooding, threw a bunch of plants in and dosed algae to make greenwater so fry would survive
there were probably about 100 dumbo guppies in there the week before, and when i went to pull them there was just a male, a female, and 2 fry.

I’d say it was when my tire track eel swam against my canister filers return hose and pushed it out of the tank while I was at school, came home to a 65g drained about 75% all over my freshly remodeled room with new carpet . It was pretty tough to convince my parents not make me give up the hobby. But now I answer to my wife and she would say the worst thing to happen was her green spot puffer jumping out and dying.

 

[Jexnell]

For me it was a 55gal acrylic tank popped a seam in my living room......
Held water for two years them one day it had enough of being a fish tank i guess...

I live in a single floor duplex apt that was built in 68, so not in the best condition. Anyways the water all went thru the cracks between the floor and wall into the dirt below. I herd the pop so was looking around at what made the noise and notice the water lvl in my 55gal dropping....

 

[Joshuakahan]

For me it was a 55gal acrylic tank popped a seam in my living room......
Held water for two years them one day it had enough of being a fish tank i guess...

I live in a single floor duplex apt that was built in 68, so not in the best condition. Anyways the water all went thru the cracks between the floor and wall into the dirt below. I herd the pop so was looking around at what made the noise and notice the water lvl in my 55gal dropping....

Ouch!!!

 

[Jexnell]

Ouch!!!

Right!
So after finding out where the water was going, thankfully not all over my floor just right down into the dirt it was a race to get the fish out before the water was gone. Small tank full of a bunch of small fish. Neon tetras, plattys, khuli loaches, breeding pair of HRPs and fry, plecos, snails...

It blew the back bottom seam right in the middle. A TruVu acrylic that was free so can't complain i guess, got two years out of it.

 

[Joshuakahan]

Right!
So after finding out where the water was going, thankfully not all over my floor just right down into the dirt it was a race to get the fish out before the water was gone. Small tank full of a bunch of small fish. Neon tetras, plattys, khuli loaches, breeding pair of HRPs and fry, plecos, snails...

It blew the back bottom seam right in the middle. A TruVu acrylic that was free so can't complain i guess, got two years out of it.View attachment 1447935View attachment 1447936

I found a truvu 36 on the curb a few years ago and used it for about a year and started noticing some bowing. So I gave it away to a rescue that wanted it. Sounds like I made the right all.

 

[IgnatzMcJockel]

Before i started with Polys, i had three Betta tanks. Two Betta Splendens and a pair of Betta Albimarginata.
A fish tuberculosis (i hope i translated it right) outbreak killed all of them within a week. I tried with medication, but nothing helped...
That was the worst thing ever happend to me in 15 years of fish keeping and made me nearly give up the hobby.

 

[qguy]

Mom, watered the plants near the aquarium with a garden hose, shorting the extension cord powering the powerheads. She did not notice the problem. It was one of the very few, and I mean very few days that I did not feed the fish, when I went to the tank, the next day, two 18 inch cichlas was gone....

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Before i started with Polys, i had three Betta tanks. Two Betta Splendens and a pair of Betta Albimarginata.
A fish tuberculosis (i hope i translated it right) outbreak killed all of them within a week. I tried with medication, but nothing helped...
That was the worst thing ever happend to me in 15 years of fish keeping and made me nearly give up the hobby.

Hmmm, I thought Fish TB was more of a slow disease, kills over months.

 

[0wen_96]

forgot to turn off my filter while cleaning off the sponge. 3 fish got sucked in, 2 came out alive. and it was a fx6 so a pretty powerful filter on max