Amazing survival tales.

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Darky

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Hey,

Well today something truly amazed me. I had a little plastic container next to my convict fry tank which I had emptied some matrix into to swap over to a newer, working filter. Anyway I got distracted and left it sitting there in no water at all for around 2 days.

I came back home after being away for these two days and remembered what I was doing, and went to swap over the media. On closer inspection of the bowl I observed to my dismay 3 convict fry, which are at the stage where they are still transparentish but look like proper fish now. I picked up one little guy and his tail wiggled, and I put him back in the tank. HE SWAM AWAY FINE! I did the same with both the others. :eek:

I mean, how is that even possible LOL. They must have layed in a puddle in the bottom of the bowl, which would have been only a couple of drops and somehow stayed alive.

Anyone else have any amazing stories of fish survival?
 
yeah, mines more stupidity though...on my part.
had about 5-8 litte jag and convict fry, and i put them in a container and only managed to get a few out, so i decided to go and get more water to dump them out...well somehow i got distracted(ex girlfriend) anyway, i forgot about them, and the next day i was do to go see my mom in hawaii for a week. Well I left and came back after a whole week of not even thinking about the poor little fish i left in a container with nothing more than a few drops for about 5 little fish, well they were all alive but gasping for air it seemed after all that time, so I put them in the little tank and they were al fine, only one died though.

pretty amazing.
 
Yeah, I think one thing that would be really helping them would be the rate at which oxygen would be diffusing into the water. But what about accumulation of waste? I think if a large fish was left in a proportionally equal amount of water they would certainly die.
 
Darky;1264942; said:
Yeah, I think one thing that would be really helping them would be the rate at which oxygen would be diffusing into the water. But what about accumulation of waste? I think if a large fish was left in a proportionally equal amount of water they would certainly die.
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i think that depends on what sort of fish:naughty:
 
ok here's one
i had all my tanks in my basement
well my convict killed his mate
i left to go stay a few days with my dad well i had no way to get home so i ended up staying over a month
while i was gone the power went out on my tanks and it was winter like 35 or 40 degrees
my grandpa said my fish were dead
when i got home i didn't even bother i saw that they were all floating and left the tanks that way for about 6 or 7 months
then one day i decided to take them down the cwater was black brown like coffe with a little cream and had mold and everything and ther was only maybe 1/3 to 1/2 inch of water left i went to move the tank and lowe and behold my convict was still alive
i rushed to save the poor guy
he's still alive today
imagine what he went through
no heater,no filter,no water changes,almost no water what so ever for that matter,swimming in his own crap
in a 10 gallon quarantine tank
for 8+ months
i felt so bad he's only like 2 inches long
but i gave him reign over my 55 galllon tank
 
Carny_4_Life;1299915; said:
ok here's one
i had all my tanks in my basement
well my convict killed his mate
i left to go stay a few days with my dad well i had no way to get home so i ended up staying over a month
while i was gone the power went out on my tanks and it was winter like 35 or 40 degrees
my grandpa said my fish were dead
when i got home i didn't even bother i saw that they were all floating and left the tanks that way for about 6 or 7 months
then one day i decided to take them down the cwater was black brown like coffe with a little cream and had mold and everything and ther was only maybe 1/3 to 1/2 inch of water left i went to move the tank and lowe and behold my convict was still alive
i rushed to save the poor guy
he's still alive today
imagine what he went through
no heater,no filter,no water changes,almost no water what so ever for that matter,swimming in his own crap
in a 10 gallon quarantine tank
for 8+ months
i felt so bad he's only like 2 inches long
but i gave him reign over my 55 galllon tank
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Wow your basement must have stunk horrible:barf:
 
Here's my survival story:

So there is this bar downtown that I frequent. They had a 55g set up on the back counter. The owner wanted to move the tank to put up another register. So I guess they were moving the tank at the beginning of the week, and it broke. The only inhabitant was a 4" Blue Jewel cichlid. I went to the bar on Thanksgiving night, and I asked what happened to the tank. They told me the story and I asked about the fish. The bartender brings over a 1/2 gallon decanter and there is the fish. Swimming in circles in his own waste. The bartender said she had been blowing air into the decanter through a straw. The little guy was in there for 4 days. I asked for the fish, figured he would be better in my SA/CA tank than in that small glass container. So that night, I walked home with a decanter with a fish in it.

JM978
 
the only thing ive ever had which was a bit strange was...

i used to have a 30g mbuna tank, one day when i was doing a water change one of my aci's jumped out, i did not notice but 3 days later i noticed that he had not been seen or eaten anything so i started looking for him. anyway he was on the floor gasping for breath i couldnt beleive it but i picked him up and put him back in, after about 30 seconds of him catching his breath and sitting in my hand he swam away, about 8 weeks later he was killed by my socolofi.
 
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