Dumbest thing you've done in/to aquariums?

[dudey]

Were the fish ok? You left us hanging!

o ya sorry, fish are fine! in their tanks now. The whole time driving there and driving home I was thinking this would be an awkward situation if I had an accident or flipped my truck and they found my car with piranhas laying all over the place.

I kept thinking what would they do if they found them, would they be able to stick it in an aquarium and safe them for me until I could get them back .

The thought of flipping my truck and the piranhas flopping around and biting me kept coming to mind also... I could see the headlines dumb college kid flips truck suffers piranha bit wounds

 

[sbuse]

sucked up a ropefish into a syphon hose and it got stuck half way in...it lived though

put some 6" balas in with 16"+ tsns now balas are in a diff tank -1 bala

 

[turtlesrock]

1. my light fell in and, of course, i reached in and grabbed it.. that happend 2x!

2. i got a 100 gallon tank for x-mas and i left it in the garage, unheated, for 2.5 weeks... it is leaking still because it was out in 20 degree wheater for 2 weeks!

 

[bomber]

Adding to my list:

doing a water change @ 2 am after a party.

 

[FishPrincess]

lol i had a paradise fsh stuck on the filter (had to get a new filter )

Dropped in guppies into our Green Terror tank (at age 7) thinking "Ohh look their gonna make friends.... AHHHHHH!!!"

 

[mamapuff]

I never figured out how people overflowed their tanks until I did it myself last week. I was talking to my giraffe cat ( i hope i am not the only one who talks to their fish) and trying to make his cave more spacious, and i had the python connected to the sink, turned on,and was too busy swapping my driftwood from tank to tank. i had both arms in the tank, up to my pits, when i heard... **tink** tink** tink** driiiip** and then constant pouring. i wanted to drop the wood, but had to gently set it down. Then the dog just had to be laying behind me between me and the faucet, so i tripped on her backing up and kinda did this weird ninja roll off the couch, stood stunned for a sec and ran and shut off the water. Sigh** i ran out of towels that night and had to use a hand towel to dry off later. lol

 

[Bighurt]

dropped a light into my tank, DID get electrocuted nothing compared to horse fence though, /QUOTE]

Not to split hairs but the definition of Electrocution is "the stopping of life by means of electricity".

Electric Shock and Severe Electric Shock are survivable, unlike Electrocution.

 

[Wulfonce]

Allowing a filter to run after adding sand for the first time (very dusty water). The dust ground down most of the moving parts inside the filter. Not smart.

The filter still works but its a little louder then it used to be.

 

[iCichlidKeeper]

Lol this story still makes me smile. This happened to one of my good friends. He had 40 gal tank in his room right next to his bed along the wall. The tank did not have a top on it and around 2 in the morning his 6" oscar ended up in bed with him haha. He said he woke up to his oscar hitting his leg lol. He says his oscar just laid there and waited to be picked up with a smile on his face haha. His buddy is now 12" and has a 75 gal to himself. The next day he went out and got a top for his 40 lol

 

[Carpsalmon]

I resealed a 150 gallon with silicone that was not for aquariums, it blew up a week later, I came home to find the front piece of glass gone and all the fish all over the floor, I'm still paying for the repairs in the apartment below me.

Three or so weeks after that I got renters insurance and was emptying my new ACRYLIC 125, and I decided to take a quick bathroom break, then I decided I would check my email, then I realized that I was siphoning into a bucket! 75 or so gallons through the floor again.... The guy downstairs would have killed me if he was'nt so scrawny...

Then theres the time I plugged in my heater and O2 and powerhead where my one year old unplugged it, I don't know how long it took but my perfect 13 Inch indo dat was dead, my 14 inch jardini died an hour later, and all 23 of my 4-9 inch loaches wher upside down on the bottom, but they all pulled through.

Leaving a 210 outside full of water to have it freeze and break the top plastic support.

Filling a tank with a plugged in heater only to have it explode due to temperature difference.

Putting 1 inch loaches with a six inch vegetarian koi... I guess he wanted some protien, because all 3 loaches were gone by morning.

Putting a 6 inch Silver arow with 2 14 inch gar, it didn't take to long to realize that was a dumb move.

Adding three 6 inch datnoids, 2 7 or so inch loaches, 1 12 inch distachotas sexfaciatus, and a 12 inch flag tail to an already crowed 72 gallon bowfront. Woke up in the morning to five dead datnoids, 6 dead loaches, 2 dead peacock eels, 1 dead sexfaciatus, a few dead catfish, a dead flag tail and to think, I just spent 300 bucks on most of the fish that week.

Siphoning out my window only to find out that the guy downstairs had his widow open and the water splashed on his windowsill and into his house.

And a bunch of other random stuff... Hope you have more fun reading about it than I had paying for the damages over the years.

Oh and not buying an ST a guy was trying to sell me for 80 bucks at 12 inches, instead buying his 22 inch clown knife for 40... WOW I really feel stupid now.