I was bored earlier and found myself reading peoples stories about their most interesting experiences with their fish. So I decided to make a similar thread. Lets hear your stories!
Cichlid Stories!
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Very intresting topic.....For I do not have time(time card at library, one hour) to recollect and write about my most awsome top three stories, so I will sum it in an outline:
1990-1995
Uncle invests into buying two 12 foot 300 gallon tanks and about a dozen other tanks ranging from 55-125..........He asks me to whatch and remember everything I see about filtration to feeding, because it is not everyday someone takes their time to teach another person their hobby at home and enjoy doing it knowing it may be me one day in the ranks taking care of tanks instead of women................
1992
First paying job doing house clean up and being a nightly secretary for the local preist.........I buy my first pair of convict cichlids..........I still remember the size of the male and female........Female was only half an inch but it was an albino with the brightest fiery orang-red belly...........The male, almost an inch, looked like any male of its size class.........The pair spawned within 3 hours after being put into my tank...........
1989-90
While doing a water change, I do not keep the heater submerged, it explodes when the water makes contact while filling up................
1990-1995
Uncle invests into buying two 12 foot 300 gallon tanks and about a dozen other tanks ranging from 55-125..........He asks me to whatch and remember everything I see about filtration to feeding, because it is not everyday someone takes their time to teach another person their hobby at home and enjoy doing it knowing it may be me one day in the ranks taking care of tanks instead of women................
1992
First paying job doing house clean up and being a nightly secretary for the local preist.........I buy my first pair of convict cichlids..........I still remember the size of the male and female........Female was only half an inch but it was an albino with the brightest fiery orang-red belly...........The male, almost an inch, looked like any male of its size class.........The pair spawned within 3 hours after being put into my tank...........
1989-90
While doing a water change, I do not keep the heater submerged, it explodes when the water makes contact while filling up................
Sorry guys almost forgot to add my own story.
I had just gotten a new tank, 125 gallons. I decided to try and breed my 4 inch male jaguar cichlid. I searched around for a female, found her a few weeks later. Both fish were 4 inches. They spawned within a week. One day I came home (the fry had become free swimmers about two days pryor) and my male was on the floor dried up, my female was half eaten, and all the babies were gone. He had eaten all of his children, killed his wife, and commit suicide.
I had just gotten a new tank, 125 gallons. I decided to try and breed my 4 inch male jaguar cichlid. I searched around for a female, found her a few weeks later. Both fish were 4 inches. They spawned within a week. One day I came home (the fry had become free swimmers about two days pryor) and my male was on the floor dried up, my female was half eaten, and all the babies were gone. He had eaten all of his children, killed his wife, and commit suicide.
that's horrendous...
i once had a pair off piranha when i was younger around 6 inch, one ate the others head half circle just above the eye to the dorsal, looked like i had a bit if you knnow what i mean, that pirahna lived like that for two weeks!
had an 7inch oscar jump before while maintanence happened, hit the ceiling then layed on the floor motionless thought it was dead, put it back in the tank and within 10sec it woke up,,, knocked out i guess lol lived for years!
i once had a pair off piranha when i was younger around 6 inch, one ate the others head half circle just above the eye to the dorsal, looked like i had a bit if you knnow what i mean, that pirahna lived like that for two weeks!
had an 7inch oscar jump before while maintanence happened, hit the ceiling then layed on the floor motionless thought it was dead, put it back in the tank and within 10sec it woke up,,, knocked out i guess lol lived for years!
I had a oscar when I was younger in a 55gallon (didn't know any better at the time) I used to feed him and he would come to the surface and nip at my fingers, one day one of my cats decided to jump on top of the tank when the lid was open and ended up falling in the tank and the Oscar went and started nipping on my cat I thought it was hilarious needless to say my cat never jumped up there ever again. Also this same Oscar jumped out the tank multiple times when I was feeding him...
Edit: There was also a sunfish of some sorts in the tank with him and they would just stare at each other across the tank and not move.
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Edit: There was also a sunfish of some sorts in the tank with him and they would just stare at each other across the tank and not move.
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I was 8 at the time. Once had a 3 gallon tank and wanted some type of aggressive fish. Father took me to petsmart and I bought a betta. I made a divider out of plastic and went and got another Betta. I didn't have a lid at the time and came home from school and one of bettas jumped over the divider. I came home and was scared because the guy told me to not put two males in the same tank with out a divider. I thought they were going to fight. I never did take him out but they lived happily together never fought. I think bettas can be proven wrong with their aggression unless they are plakats or wild caught.
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