weirdest fish incident

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My very large pleco today was in a bucket waiting to move into different tank. I ask my son to take a picture for me. well he shot a couple of the bucket all good there. I went to put him in tank.....open front of lid. leaving a 4"-5" gap to put this 12"-14" "bog boy" through. not thinking. I reached in to grab him as always...he is bigger than my nets!!!. He is fine till just out of water and slaps his tall on top off water in bucket !! RIGHT IN MY FACE !!:nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :nilly: :irked: :irked: :irked: :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Water went down my shirt was very cold. Shocked I continue to put him in the tank. He is still in my hands the whole 5 feet from floor to top of tank, then sees the water and flips out of my hands and did a perfect dive through the small gap in lid into water !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man I about %$#@ my self.

the pics my son took before.......getting wet.
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My clown loaches are suicidal.
Last year you may know about tthe incident with a hollow log ornament.
What happened was we noticed that both clown loaches were nowhere to be seen... couldnt have gone down the filter, couldnt have jumped out, the damn tank has 3 lids with gaps of a foot between the top and bottom one. So we took the hollow log ornament out that had a hole in the top.
The 2 thick buggers had gotten jamed tight in the damn hting it took a lot of physical force to get them out. We clogged the hole with sponge only for a week later they do it again!, after that time we took the log out.

2 days ago the pump in our tank that gives aeriation and powers the UGF stopped working. we get a new one de attatch the old one ang guess what now! freakin mr loach goes down the pipe (its a 5ft tall hex btw) so we were like BUGGER! we had to suck the retarded thing out with the new pump.
 
I once had to retrieve an american eel from My nieghbor's swimming pool. It was a warm night and the kitchen door was open so the eel got out of it's tank, crossed the living room, the kitchen, the patio, and about 40' of lawn to get to the pool. Luckily they had not chlorinated it. It took about 2 hours to catch the damn thing and put it back where it belonged.
 
im sorry, but the story of the man farting on the wood chair and scaring his pacu takes the cake. I read that to about 4 ppl and died laughing everytime..
 
One night i was sleeping and hear this banging noise every couple of seconds it sounded like someone was stumbling around my house and since i live alone it was obviously a burglar. So i get my shotgun and that has a flashlight built into the muzzle so im walking around my house following the noise so i go around my entire house no doors open no windows open or broken so I was thinking i must be trippin. a couple minutes later when im falling asleep again the noise comes back so I do the same thing wwalk around see nothing and then hear nothing again. So i go back to bed for the third time. Once again heres the noise so Im walking around again and see my oscars in the tank begging for food so im like sure im up there hungry might aswell feed them. I begin feeding them and notice my albino tiger is missing (which is my favorite fish) So im looking in the tank thinking he's hiding cant find him then i hear the noise again. I look under the stand and he was wedged in there gasping and almostd dry. So I pick him up and drop him back in add soem stress coat and he was fine after that. The weird thing was that this tank had no way for him to get out but to lift the glass lid everything else was very tight to keep evaporation down
 
I was transferring my bala sharks from my 29g to my 75g across the house. I was holding a cup of water where the bala shark was and my brother was holding a cup with another shark. He was about 4-5 feet away from me. I took my hand off the lid of the cup for one second, and the shark rocketed out. He flew straight from my cup to my brothers cup, almost giving him a heart attack. Luckiest shark ever.

Back in Brasil, I went with my cousin to buy feeders. While we were waiting in line, the employee took off the lid in the feeder tank and scooped some. They were seriously spooked, and half a dozen jumped out of the tank in every which direction. We got a little wet, but whatever. When we get home, my cousin feels something wriggling in his pocket (this is like a 20 minute drive). He reaches in, and it was one of the feeders. It had jumped 2 feet from the tank straight into his pant pocket, and survived a long ride home. He decided not to use it as a feeder, as it had earned it's right to live. He still has it, except now it is an 8" comet goldfish!!!

Last one...
I regularly buy ghost shrimp for my cichlids. After I dump them in the tank, 30 shrimp last about 10 minutes before all the fish eat them. The ones that hide get eaten by my bichir. One day, I bought a batch of shrimp and gave them to my fish, but one shrimp did not get eaten. It found a little crevice, and savagely defended itself from 8-10" oscars and such. I left him 2 weeks in that tank, all the while him surviving. I actually saw him latch on to a fish who lunged at him, and wouldn't let go until the fish left him alone. After the 2 weeks, I transferred him to his own private 29 gallon, full of plants and nice, calm tetras. He got to 1.5", and lived almost two years. He deserved it.
 
yeah 12 volt.. id be proud of that story! haha
 
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