Rescued a big 10" + banded high fin shark from a fish store when the owner was gonna just let him die and throw him out. He was nice and gave me it for free so I brought the little guy home placed it in a big tub and sat around with it for hours looking up his condition and what I could do for him as I was new to fish keeping at the time. Turns out he had a very bad bacterial infection from a previous owner. Over the next weeks of being kept in a kiddy pool with me treating and keeping an eye on him constantly this little bugger made a recovery. To bad I didn't have a pond at the time so now he's in a friends pond down south. It's been a while since iv seen the little beast
I recently was given a one eyed hydro gar by the owner of a LFS for free. I was buying a datnoid and he asked if I would take the gar being that I had asked about the gar when I first walked in. It was in a tank with about three (4inch) P. Bass who I'm sure were the ones who took his eye out.