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one time i wenton vacation for two weeks i wanted to have my fish babysat by my LFS but my parents insisted there freind do it instead so i leave a list of insturctions etc, when i get back after the two weeks th house had a petruid odour iwent downstairs and to my horror i saw all my FAVORITE fish floating in green slime the caretaker didnt change the water once and justdumped thefood in whillynilly the heater was also broken so some where baked to death if they had survived the2weeks in the dirty dirty water and at the end my parents said "she tryed her best"
 
supergourami said:
one time i wenton vacation for two weeks i wanted to have my fish babysat by my LFS but my parents insisted there freind do it instead so i leave a list of insturctions etc, when i get back after the two weeks th house had a petruid odour iwent downstairs and to my horror i saw all my FAVORITE fish floating in green slime the caretaker didnt change the water once and justdumped thefood in whillynilly the heater was also broken so some where baked to death if they had survived the2weeks in the dirty dirty water and at the end my parents said "she tryed her best"
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that is why i never go on vacation...
 
I think im quite lucky! Most of my mates either have or had tanks at some point, and the only people i let near them if im away is mum and dad as they used to own a fish shop and dads fish mad! Lol

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projectile said:
Well the worst that happened to me was when my dad tried to help me with Co2 needle valve settings, after seeing me struggle with it for a while he adjusted it to get nice bubbles going when I was out to college and I came back home to 80 cardinals , 20 congo tetras and 50+rummy nose, 6 large roseline barbs all dead and floating .

I had collected most of the plants from other hobbyists by doing odds and end , doing thier diy projects , selling ferts/ filters. etc

The fish alone took me a loong time to save up/ beg /recieve in gifts from others.

The ph had crashed to something like 4.
Well we didn't speak for over a year and he still hates all my tanks


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Oh no....
 
I kept a tank in my frat house and everyone was pretty respectful of it. They would check it out and whatnot but never tried to do anything with it and I always left my room open as well. I even got a few of the other guys into the hobby also and helped them start up their own tanks. The tank also made for a great conversation piece with girls at parties who would visit my room. :)
 
my 3 yr old sister decided to 'feed' my discus community last year while i was away. however it was powder buffer instead, killed all the fish including a breeding pair, has taken nearly a year to get anywhere near what i had before
 
Wow these are some awful stories :( I have been lucky so far. I do set ground rules when people come over first thing, to avoid any disasters, but I always cringe when there are kids around my tanks. I remember reading a story on here once about a guy who had a kid in his house for some reason and the kid threw a book at his tank to get the fish to move, which if course broke the tank..... =/
 
damn, i wulda whooped that butt, i like to show kids my tanks, but when they start tapping on that thing, i get pretty mad, but ik they're just kids and they do it cuz they are curious, but when my 20 year old friend (shuld know by now) starts tapping and messing with my fish, it irritates me, but i dont have the heart to tell him to stop
 
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