Overfed a Ceylon puffer before leaving for the weekend... came home to him bloated and floating upside down at the top of the tank. 
Biggest mistakes you have made in aquarium keeping?
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I leak tested my plumbing with hot water, while there was cold water inside the tank. Cracked this back panel 10 min before adding fish ??
Hmm... where do I start?! I have made plenty of mistakes in the aquarium hobby!
Perhaps getting big fish in small tanks. Adding too many fish at once. feeding too much.
TRUSTING people will take care of fish once you rehome them...
I have made plenty. And learned from all of them!
Perhaps getting big fish in small tanks. Adding too many fish at once. feeding too much.
TRUSTING people will take care of fish once you rehome them...
I have made plenty. And learned from all of them!
Listening to a salesman at a LFS when I got my first tank as a kid. Ended up with an oscar a clown knife a pacu 2 JDs 2 convicts a common pleco and a few others I can’t remember in a 20g. Then when they were obviously too big, he sold me a 60 and said that would be plenty big. No Internet in those days lol
I never used to use an air pump check valve. When I was in college the hose disconnected from the pump and about 10 of twenty gallons of my little tank drained off slowly dripping on to my landlord’s experience printing equipment below. $20,000 in damages which thankfully she had insurance for. I always put the valves on now! Water damage is no joke. ?
Lol, I mentioned this thread to my wife, who then asked what the reaction was to my most recent bone-headed move...and I realized that I had mercifully almost erased it from memory...
I was filling a large storage tank in my basement fishroom using a hose. The water was running full-blast and I was sitting in my easy chair watching my fish and waiting for it to fill. Ran upstairs for another beer...stopped to chat with the wife...saw the TV show she was watching...took a sip, watched some more...sat down...and suddenly over an hour had passed and the basement was flooded.
Yes, I broke the cardinal rule of fish-keeping: never, never...NEVER...leave water running unattended.
I was filling a large storage tank in my basement fishroom using a hose. The water was running full-blast and I was sitting in my easy chair watching my fish and waiting for it to fill. Ran upstairs for another beer...stopped to chat with the wife...saw the TV show she was watching...took a sip, watched some more...sat down...and suddenly over an hour had passed and the basement was flooded.
Yes, I broke the cardinal rule of fish-keeping: never, never...NEVER...leave water running unattended.
By all means get a generator. We had a planned 6 hr outage last night from 11 pm to 5 am which I completely forget about. Not a problem here, as the generator kicked on on less than 10 seconds (I do still have to reset two clocks). Having a whole house generator is peace of mind when you have a considerable investment in tanks and fish. The troubling question I always had was "what if there is an outage while we are away?" Not even a potential problem anymore.
Getting a reef system. More expensive than a girlfriend.
Yes, but not nearly as many associated headaches...
