Ever make an expesive mistake?

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tetracanthus

tetracanthus

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IE: Keeping a cute little (5") Clarias catfish with a couple cape york rainbows(3"),
Putting afew Hoplosternum cats in with adult red eared turtles or even setting a 50 gallon tank on an uneven surface only to wake up and have to do a midnight rescue and cleaning. :screwy:
These are but a few of the mistakes I've made over the years in the hobby.
How about you people?
 
A cute small spotted puffer in a tank full of altum angels (mating pairs), oops.
 
Number of mistakes for me probably at about the one million mark by now. First mistake that randomly comes to mind; Leaving the tank hood open overnight on an aquarium full of hemiodus gracilus. A great way to wake up to a bunch of "dried sardines" on the floor. :eek:
 
I didn't close up a gap on my 130 gallon and my snakehead jumped out and dried out on the floor. He looked like a Boa I'm not quite sure what kind of snakehead that is but he cost me 120 bucks because I bought him about 6 months after they outlawed them.
 
getting started in this hobby lol
 
Cleaning my 55 gal, and forgeting it was draining :eek: ...lost 75 bucks worth of fish....I was able to save 11 out of 18 fish! (mostley expensive rainbows died....)
(See my post: Fish NEED water to live... under LESSONS LEARNED)

Jen ;)
 
Bummer about the snakehead,he looked the part.I bought £400 worth (about $700) of topaz puffers that had been twice quarantined and put them in a mixed tank.Lost all puffers,3 dragon gobies 18",redtail tsn cross,favourite red tip sailfin plec to some sort of virus that even spread after 3 months from other tank occupants.A costly mistake I wont repeat.
 
My Dad was cleaning our pond (above ground) and left the tap water running...all but 2 koi lived out of 7 and the channels survived. Until a raccoon family killed what was left a few weeks later. I no longer have that pond. I'm thinking about building another one though :screwy:
 
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