I killed a fish cleaning the glass...

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Accidents happen. I have to be careful with my magnet glass cleaner, my brown knife fish is super pissy about it. As soon as he feels the vibrations from it he bolts out of his hide and is attacking it. Its crazy. He also hates when I have the gravel vac in the tank and will come up and bite me, which is pretty funny right now because he was a little mouth and its kind of cute :p might not be so cute when he gets a little bigger though!

My friends were cleaning their community tank and they had one of those glass catfish, they loved that fish, and I guess they were putting the water in buckets and somehow sucked him up, he probably ended up dumped in the front yard with all the water lol they searched for him in the tank for so long until they realized what happened..

I have had numerous zebra danio ramp out the back of the tank up the "waterfall" from the filters, my Large mouth Bass got blamed for eating them all but when we moved the tanks we had a whole school of those zebra danio mummified in the carpet lol

*knock on wood* I havnt had anything like that happen recently!

I am with ClownKnife, I dont get how you wouldnt notice a fish in the net when you take it out of the water.. wouldnt it wiggle around? But again, accidents do happen and lesson learned I hope.
 
I have the worst story!! I was cleaning out my 55g with a JD and a Tiger O. Doing a 50% change. As i was filling up the tank with water my wife told me that she had turned the hot water up! Just as i was to the top i looked to see both of my fish were at the top gasping for air. As i went blank for a second i went into emergency water change. It seem to late for the JD.. he took a few sprints around the tank and then kind of just floated. tried to revive him with water from which i had taken out. :( The Oscar had a better chance. I took out a lot of the hot water replaceing with cold. it took a while but the water felt stable. After about a long he would start swimming again. Just as I thought everything was ok...I started the filter and he went nuts and jumped out the tank. (the lid was still off) i grabbed him quickly and put him back. He went striaght to the bottom corner. Within about 15 seconds he jumped out again!!! OHHH SHHHH!!! i said... but this time he was behind the tank flopping up under the fish stand. saddly he didnt make it...i dug him a grave ....tear:(
 
Stratoquarius said:
when I changed from tangynikans in my old tank I took all the rocks out and left them in the garden for the entire of autumn (which was in england, possibly the most depressing and rainy place on the planet) a 0.5" julidichromis fry survived several months in a natural pit inside the rock until I put the rock back in my tank and BAM julidichromis baby.

possibly the weirdest thing ever. it mustve survived on the tonnes of rain and moist atmosphere...
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Story of the year for sure, what the ffffuuuu???
 
Sorry to hear about your loss:(

I once had a really nice looking Betta. I was trying to clean their tank and removed the divider. I placed him back in first. I then put the divider back. As I was about to place the female in, I looked to see which side of the tank he was on, just to be horrified that he was nearly cut in half:cry:
 
illyoung said:
I have the worst story!! I was cleaning out my 55g with a JD and a Tiger O. Doing a 50% change. As i was filling up the tank with water my wife told me that she had turned the hot water up! Just as i was to the top i looked to see both of my fish were at the top gasping for air. As i went blank for a second i went into emergency water change. It seem to late for the JD.. he took a few sprints around the tank and then kind of just floated. tried to revive him with water from which i had taken out. :( The Oscar had a better chance. I took out a lot of the hot water replaceing with cold. it took a while but the water felt stable. After about a long he would start swimming again. Just as I thought everything was ok...I started the filter and he went nuts and jumped out the tank. (the lid was still off) i grabbed him quickly and put him back. He went striaght to the bottom corner. Within about 15 seconds he jumped out again!!! OHHH SHHHH!!! i said... but this time he was behind the tank flopping up under the fish stand. saddly he didnt make it...i dug him a grave ....tear:(
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Sorry, it is surly harder to loose a big fish than a small fish.
 
benzjamin13 said:
Sorry to hear about your loss:(

I once had a really nice looking Betta. I was trying to clean their tank and removed the divider. I placed him back in first. I then put the divider back. As I was about to place the female in, I looked to see which side of the tank he was on, just to be horrified that he was nearly cut in half:cry:
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thanks, i do not think my male liked that either.
 
pookie said:
Accidents happen. I have to be careful with my magnet glass cleaner, my brown knife fish is super pissy about it. As soon as he feels the vibrations from it he bolts out of his hide and is attacking it. Its crazy. He also hates when I have the gravel vac in the tank and will come up and bite me, which is pretty funny right now because he was a little mouth and its kind of cute :p might not be so cute when he gets a little bigger though!

My friends were cleaning their community tank and they had one of those glass catfish, they loved that fish, and I guess they were putting the water in buckets and somehow sucked him up, he probably ended up dumped in the front yard with all the water lol they searched for him in the tank for so long until they realized what happened..

I have had numerous zebra danio ramp out the back of the tank up the "waterfall" from the filters, my Large mouth Bass got blamed for eating them all but when we moved the tanks we had a whole school of those zebra danio mummified in the carpet lol

*knock on wood* I havnt had anything like that happen recently!

I am with ClownKnife, I dont get how you wouldnt notice a fish in the net when you take it out of the water.. wouldnt it wiggle around? But again, accidents do happen and lesson learned I hope.
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I have always checked for fish in my nets. i just forgot once. i did not look at the net. I just put it on top of my other tank like 5ft away. Lesson lerned.
My BPs sometimes atck my hands when I move around decor or clean there tank. It is sooooo funny it even tickles.
 
For some that havent kept certain types of fish...it is freaky, but some fish nearly play dead in a net. I recently netted otto cats & everyone I would have thought were dead. Cory cats can be still as well. Some small tetras are still, some are floppers. My rams are small but darn near hop out. My last angel pretty much flopped me in the face lol. But I can see how it could happen. Esp. with a fish with barbels that get stuck in netting.
 
I was talking to my wife not paying any mind to the hungry oscar in the tank. All of a suden I was wet and my wife was freaking out. come to find out I had the lid lifted and aparently the oscar got pissed off I was taking so long to feed it and launched it self at the food container in my hand. we got him back in the tank and he still has scares to this day.
 
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