ever seen a fish break the glass??

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I used to work with a guy who had his thumb split open to the bone thanks to a hidden pistol shrimp in one of his tanks while he was doing simple live rock maintenance. Those little guys are nuts.
 
my mates 10" male festae was blewing with his 10" oscar they cracked the glass, which led to it breaking cause of the pressure of the water...bear in mind the glass was quite thin...it was just be he was bout to upgrade his tank...
 
invisyblegypsey;1694826; said:
Chucknorriscichlids are best kept in moifide TV TANKs
but keep the remote handy in case they get out of control saveing Texas
you can change the TV Tank to the Barneycichlids channel
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michaeljames;1692520; said:
tank busters...does anyone have a good story or more wanted ACTUAL TRUE tales of a fish breaking its tank. I know tank busters is a term relating to a fish growing bigger than his tank but still I gotta ask. I have had a couple mean ass red devils between 12-15 inches and I never thought for one minute they could break the glass, as hard as they tried. a jag at 12" never did it and so on. NOW I would never put a rock in my tanks as any cichlid is creative enough to pick that rock up and bang the glass but seriously anyone ever heard of it happening? I dont think its possible. I think 90% of the tales are 1 of 2 accidents. either 1) rock or decor smashed the glass or 2) the tank began to leak and since it had a tank buster in it they bragged that he broke it. a true tank busting situation ie cichlid ramming glass would cause a bust not a leak.... any body got anything on this one???
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My pissed off oscar kept hitting the side for weeks and one morning I came out to find half of the 70 gallons of water on my kitchen floor. While the glass did not break I am fairly certain it was this scorned oscar who was responsible. This is the reason I switched to acrylic!
 
thefishguy7;1694905; said:
My fish have broken heaters, filters, any accessory actually in the tank, but they've never cracked or shattered the glass. You could probably throw a small rock at a tank with it still not breaking, the glass is just too thick.
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I have had several water heaters broken too. I use protectors now.
 
a worker at my LFS told me that she had a snakehead go right through the side of her 125gallon tank...could that be possible?
 
Our 12'' gg has a habit of charging around at it's tank mates every now and again but it's pretty dumb at catching them so often hits the glass(I've no idea what it would do if it caught them), doesn't happen often sometimes it goes off on one for an hour of so and ends up doing damage to itself instead when it misses. Then sulks for a week whilst I'm treating another damaged fin. The glass is fine;)
 
I once had a Jack Dempsey. I'd say he say about 5 inches. I was putting him in a 10 gallon tank and as I was a acclimating him to his new home I walk by the tank to add some water to the bag. He freaked out and hit the side of the tank!!!:eek: Water went eveywhere!!!:eek:. It took over a week to completely dry out the room:ROFL::ROFL:. The tank had a crack in it that was about 8 inches long.
 
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