I was feeding our fish and got distracted and forgot to slide the tank lid back into position. My Leonardo managed to slam into the lid and slice his lower lip off. The lip was hanging on by a thread of tissue at the corner of his mouth. He had to be removed from the tank to detach his flapping lower lip.
Fortunately, his lip regenerated. Three nights ago at 1am I heard several violent, thunderous, explosive crashing booms followed by extra loud sounds from the mechanical filtration system. I got out of bed to check out the fish tank and found water on the floor, a tank lid ajar, and an uptake pipe and bulkhead broken and on the floor of the tank, and lots of big fish scales floating around. Leonardo had a white line down his whole length where scales were missing, he also had a gash on his head.
With a pipe broken off, the Hammerhead pump was sucking in air. I closed the valve to the pipe that had broken off and went back to bed. An hour later, the pump was still making funny noises, I got out of bed again and discovered that I had not closed the valve completely. The valve is very stiff and hard to reach. In this picture it is located on the lowest horizontal pipe behind the vertical pipes.
Our fish desperately need their new tank. But even in the big tank, there is nothing to prevent them from slamming into the top of the tank. As monsterous as they are, they still freak out, and only crashing into something stops their paranoid delusions.
Fortunately, his lip regenerated. Three nights ago at 1am I heard several violent, thunderous, explosive crashing booms followed by extra loud sounds from the mechanical filtration system. I got out of bed to check out the fish tank and found water on the floor, a tank lid ajar, and an uptake pipe and bulkhead broken and on the floor of the tank, and lots of big fish scales floating around. Leonardo had a white line down his whole length where scales were missing, he also had a gash on his head.
With a pipe broken off, the Hammerhead pump was sucking in air. I closed the valve to the pipe that had broken off and went back to bed. An hour later, the pump was still making funny noises, I got out of bed again and discovered that I had not closed the valve completely. The valve is very stiff and hard to reach. In this picture it is located on the lowest horizontal pipe behind the vertical pipes.
Our fish desperately need their new tank. But even in the big tank, there is nothing to prevent them from slamming into the top of the tank. As monsterous as they are, they still freak out, and only crashing into something stops their paranoid delusions.
