Inexperienced fish keeper stories

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probassfisher010

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Today I was hanging with some friends and my mom called me and said while she was feeding my fish, she noticed my brand new eletric blue crayfish died, I was a little bummed but I thought that maybe it was just molting and she made a mistake. Anyways, I told her this and she said defenitely not, she picked it up and it didn't move at all. I was a little sad at this, and figured it died molting or something since it was fine a day earlier, eating and active etc. Well, I just got home and looked inside the tank (Filters and everything else turned off) and saw the little guy waving its claws at me. Any one else have funny stories of their moms/wives/girlfriends/dads etc making silly mistakes? And Ill post pictures of him to prove he is alive, and Ill also do a FTS of his digs.
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My dad always says that my 8 inch upside down catfish does not need a 65 gallon aquarium I always say that it will get 4 inches longer(it will). When It does get bigger he might understand me.LOL
 
My dad is old school.. and insists "what ever size tank you keep your fish in they will grow too" I've broke it down and explained why that is true and why it's animal abuse in my mind, and unacceptable.... lol then he comments on how most of my fish are "Old" ( meaning I've had them longer then a year..) so maybe I "am" doing "something" right... hehe... I've managed to talk him out of alot of poor livestock choices for his 29 bio-cube.
 
A guy at our lfs was telling us about a woman who kept returning fish under the 14 day warranty rule. She had a 20g tank set up, they'd taught her about proper filtration, and no one could figure out what was going on. They made her start bringing in water samples, and found the ammonia and nitrates were through the roof. They told her what to do, she did it, and still came back with dead fish. Finally, they asked her again what was in there. She explained she had a few common fish, sword tails and such, and her cute little starfish she hadn't seen in awhile because he hides a lot.
She thought that because there was a little sign saying that fresh water fish like a little salt in their water, that made it ok to keep salt fish with them. It turns out that there was a dead star fish decomposing away in a rock decoration in her tank.
 
Chitala Ornata Mama said:
A guy at our lfs was telling us about a woman who kept returning fish under the 14 day warranty rule. She had a 20g tank set up, they'd taught her about proper filtration, and no one could figure out what was going on. They made her start bringing in water samples, and found the ammonia and nitrates were through the roof. They told her what to do, she did it, and still came back with dead fish. Finally, they asked her again what was in there. She explained she had a few common fish, sword tails and such, and her cute little starfish she hadn't seen in awhile because he hides a lot.
She thought that because there was a little sign saying that fresh water fish like a little salt in their water, that made it ok to keep salt fish with them. It turns out that there was a dead star fish decomposing away in a rock decoration in her tank.
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oscaroo said:
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That was really uncalled for. This one guy at the lfs was talking to the owner and was asking about a hi fin panganes (or whatever) and he knew a paroon or I'd shark grew large but thought this one was different. So he asked the owner and he said oh not too big only about this big. He used his hands to measure about 12" so the guy bought it. Later finds out it grows way larger. That Guy was me :/ no.longer have the shark. that was when I started and didn't know better.

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When I got into aquaria a few years ago, it was total chaos. I kept a pair of breeding Angelfish with an Oscar and other fish like a Gourami, all in a 29 gallon. My dad kept Angelfish with an Oscar for years when he was younger and they died because someone unplugged the tank while he was gone. So I thought it would work for me, lol. After 2 weeks, I realized my dad was crazy and knew nothing about fishkeeping.

I remember when I was really young, like 5, my mom bought me a fish tank. The center fish was an albino Red Devil (which I didn't know until years later) with fantail goldfish as tankmates. I remember always finding half eaten Goldfish and thinking "wtf? Who did this?" It was later rehomed to a guy who bred Zebra Finches and it lived for years in a 75 gallon tank.
 
oscaroo said:
My dad always says that my 8 inch upside down catfish does not need a 65 gallon aquarium I always say that it will get 4 inches longer(it will). When It does get bigger he might understand me.LOL
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he doesn't. a 12 inch fish in a 12 inch wide aquarium means the aquarium is too small. he needs a 75 at least.
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