immortal fish

[oscargirl]

have you ever had a fish that has been through hell and still survives. tell your stories

two years ago we got about 50 feeder fish to go into small water fetchers, today only one survives.
this past school year my sister had a biome experiment for biology class. to represent a consumer she put in our one remaining feeder fish after the week of the assignment had passes out of all the kids who had fish in there biomes her fish was one out of two to survive. on top of that the fish staid in the small sealed biome for over a month living in stannic water and having nothing to eat except for some mosquito larva. after a month or so we finely tuck him out and put him in our bathtub with our new turtle where he lives happily eating the turtle’s waste

 

[bigblue22]

Good Grief! Personally I have no experiences, but I heard that Dojo loach breeders set a pair of dojo's over the winter in a garage with no filter, no nothing and let the water evaporate slowly. when they checked on them in the spring, they were fine and proceeded to reproduce.

 

[CClump]

had a feeder i started calling lucky after living with dovii convicts my butterkoferi (and being the number 2 in that tank i might add) before finally getting put in with my jaguar. still lasted a couple days.
Was a freaky looking fish too...big black eyes and could almost see through his skin

 

[Madding]

My 5" tiretrack eel jumped out of the tank and landed in a bucket of water over a foot away. He survived in the freezing bucket water for over twenty four hours before I realized he was there.

 

[Industrial]

I used to have a caecillian worm when I was little that would jump out of the tank and wind up under my bed on a weekly basis.

I have a dragon goby that survived through two nitrogen cycles (the second actually wiped out seven indian glassfish and another DG). He also survived Wal-Mart's koi tank .

 

[Sab_Fan]

I used to keep cory cats in all my tanks, for cleanup duty, but I moved away from it over the years . . . I now have only one left, which is 6 or 7 years old . . . he has caught popeye three times, and recovered each time . . . he has been moved to three different tanks over the years . . . he just keeps on living, when all of the other corys I bought at the same time are long gone

 

[zigg]

ive got a coonvict cichlid that was bred to feed a big oscar. all the fry were eaten but this one so it was given to me after a month of living with the oscar. when i got him i put him in with my pike cichlid, bowfin, and florida gar and he got beat up for a day but now lives happily with the others at about 2 inches

 

[littlewolfpaw]

I got a free ten gallon tank from a fellow employee a year ago and this poor emerald corey cat was the last survivor of horrible care, she was hoping it would die...so he survived an ick epidemic were the rest of my fish died, being picked at by cichlids (I was a little new to the hobby at the time), being dive bombed by my clown knife once (the knife doesnt try that any more), and now hes ten times the size of all my other coreys and very happy.

 

[Danger_Chicken]

My 5" tiretrack eel jumped out of the tank and landed in a bucket of water over a foot away. He survived in the freezing bucket water for over twenty four hours before I realized he was there.

Now that is awesome!

...we finely tuck him out and put him in our bathtub with our new turtle where he lives happily eating the turtle’s waste

Oregon...West Virginia of the Pacific Coast I hear next year you're getting paved roads up there for the horseless carriages

 

[Diskboy12]

I had a feeder live through a heat wave where the tank water got to 94 degrees...needless to say alll the others in the tank died.