immortal fish

[ScubaChick0121]

Oh boy... Jeez this guy was a survivor lol so i had a kenyi african cichlid that killed everyone else, he survived the walmart tank with cichlids that were 3 times bigger then him, then one day I put him in this tiny critter carrier for the moment when I was adding my new fish to the tank (I was planning on taking him to the LFS within the hour) Something distracted me and I left him out there in 60* weather, and I forgot about him for over a week. When I went into the garage to grap something I saw him swimming around and a little pale. Poor guy! I put him in a breeder box in my tank for a week before I rehomed him and now hes happily swimming around in a friends tank

 

[Chrisplosion]

Our cat bumped into my power brick for one of my tanks, so my turtle and flowerhorn went all night without heat. It reached 60F. Luckily they are healthy and safe.

 

[smartlove_518]

I had a dwarf gourami live with my red ear slider turtle for 3 years..i put him with the turtle because it bullied all the fishes in the tank.....i decided to give the turtle to a zoo when it became too big but the fish lived on....haha

 

[Experiment397]

i had a dragon goby that was shanked by a pictus catfish and swam around for like 2 weeks with a big ole hole in his side.
also had a jack dempsey that decided to mouth fight with a pacu. she ended up completly taring his lip off on the one side and collapsing a nostril. she is finnally healing

 

[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

follow-up: about a week after posting this, he died . . . damn

 

[knifegill]

When I was a kid my dad maintained a feeder tank. One day a long-finned albino danio came in with the goldfish load. He was in there for two years which doesn't seem long until you realize that it was a 20 long with a carpload of goldfish, probably very little or no filtration and 0 water changes. We also frequently tried to catch him, but he was too fast. And we didn't feed that tank if I remember correctly. So he must have been living on what came out of new goldfish we added. Yuck. This thread reeks of more fish abuse than my childhood.