stupidest thing you done with your fresh or saltwater fish......
- Thread starter STXman
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mine happened 2 days ago......... did water change went straight from filling my freshwater 55 to topping off all my salts and forgot to turn my power strip back on for my freshwater..... woke up the next morning to a tank full of dead fish..... all my babies growing out, rtc, artc, asain bumblebee cat, spotted raph, zamora cat, florida gar, 3 frontosa, and a pleco................ giving the tank away, dont even wanna put anything else in it. every time i see it i get sad.
That sux dude perfect_prefect;4349679; said:
does it really happen that fast? ugh i would have a stroke. im so sorry for your losses.. the reason i ask tho is i have had hang on back filters stop running in the night, also heaters not get plugged back in after wc's and i know the whole system together would be much worse but what exactly disrupts the tank so fast. the reason i worry so much is i live in a more rural area and when our power goes out it sometimes takes a bit for them to get out here. the problem with well water is without power, you have no well pump. so i couldnt even do a water change last time it was out for about 4 hours and i was running around freaking out floating all filter media from hob filters and pulling water out with a siphon and pouring it back providing oxygen hopefully it was for a reason but all my fish lived. its just one of my biggest fears other than a tank blowout.
I would think it would be a few things that could cause a crash that quickly one being the temp drop (depending on the fish) the other being lack of oxygen, oxygen runs out fast in a system that isn't flowing, and even faster if there are big fish in it.
dumbest thing I've done was not checking the temperature of the water before adding it to tank. luckily for me my pleco's are resilient and no one else was in the tank yet, but yeah sticking my hand in to put in some drifwood I noticed it was quite warm, panicked and threw in a ton of ice, dropping below 70 degrees which is too cold for them and upon realizing this I did what I should have done first and put them back into a tank that was already running.
funny how when you do one stupid thing, you kinda decend on that track for a while before the smart part of your brain wakes up. I had to slowly transition them back into the established tank lest make the whole scenario worse by them goign from 70 to 78 degrees instantly after goign through the whole ordeal.
funny how when you do one stupid thing, you kinda decend on that track for a while before the smart part of your brain wakes up. I had to slowly transition them back into the established tank lest make the whole scenario worse by them goign from 70 to 78 degrees instantly after goign through the whole ordeal.
I flushed a betta down the toilet, because I wanted a new one. So I flushed it and asked my mom for a new betta and lied to her that it died so I put it down the tornado drain. Hey! I was 5 years old okay? Hahaha! 
