Today I was doing a water change on my 180g and 55g tanks when the handle on the 5 gallon bucket broke as I was carrying it. The corner of the bucket landed on my foot and then proceeded to spill all over the floor. Blood, bruising and 2 hours of cursing while cleaning up all of the water were had. I imagine tomorrow my foot will be a nice shade of blue with a nice big scab haha.
Lets hear your fish keeping related injuries
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well, no serious injuries here yet *knocks on wood* 
only thing is i frequently get scratches on my hands which i suppose started happening when i got into the hobby.
only thing is i frequently get scratches on my hands which i suppose started happening when i got into the hobby.
I cut my hand on my acrylic overflow box. Bled into the tank for about 5 mins before I realized how bad it was.stop no my cichlids have the taste for human blood I guess.
a 75 gallon aquarium slipped out of my fingers and broke one of my toes, and have cut myself on the outside edges of my 90
Huge blood blister after hitting my finger while trying to snap of the panels on a hood. tore a chunk out my hand when i hit it against my glass top trying to avoid getting bit when my gar charged at me. i think the gar would have done less damage.
not exactly fish-keeping related, but close... I was at my favorite lake in the catskills, and I saw a shoal of bullhead fry about 1" long, and I caught a few of them by hand. Got a sting on my thumb from one of their pectoral spines and I had a sore bump on my thumb for at least a month afterwards.
I also got shocked by frank, my electric catfish, a number of times, but that was usually on purpose (cause I'm an idiot).
I also got shocked by frank, my electric catfish, a number of times, but that was usually on purpose (cause I'm an idiot).
I was reaming out something on my sump with a dremel a few years ago. I was using the reamer bit that looks like a really angry drill bit (for those of you familiar with dremel bits haha). Well, it caught and jumped and ran up the whole back of my thumb. It turned it to hamburger instantly, and I could see bone in the knuckle area. Shredded the nail, too. There is definite nerve damage, because the back of my thumb is still numb to this day.
Other than random scrapes not much here. I have worked myself so hard setting up, moving, and filling tanks that I threw up lol. But that's just me being too obsessed
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when moving my pictus cats, I used my bare hands so they dont get tangled in the nets. One of them didn't take kindly to it and did a "wiggle stab" and jabbed both sides of my hand lol