weirdest fish incident

[JEAE21]

oddball's was funny and amazing!

I saw this on a Japanese show but..
(somewhere) in Africa, there were a poor family that lived in a house out of mud. It was the rainy season and they didn't have much to eat. They prayed to God that they wanted some food. Next morning the Dad awakes to a giant fish laying on his stomache. The family was so surprised about this and kept on praying. And everynight, there would be a fish popping out of nowhere. Turns out it was a lungfish, and since the house is build out of mud blocks, it had a lungfish hibernating in the mud. After a few years the rain comes and so the lungfish "come out" of the house.

lol, they actually brought in a lungfish in a mud block to the studio. They had it in a tank and poured in some water and after a few minutes, it came out alive! haha, it was like instant noodle.

 

[Mystix212]

One day when I was at my friends house, he had a 150G tank with 3 full grown oscars in it. Well it was feeding time and I was not moving. At the time I was eating a drumstick (like an ice cream with choc bits and assorted stuff), so I put the ice cream into my left hand and grabbed a huge handful of pellets. I started t drop them in a bit at a time, but there 1 one oscar who cowered away. I didnt think twice about it. Than just as the handful of pellets had gone, this oscar in the background just jumped right at my left hand, and knocked my ice cream intoi the tank. It ate prolly 50grams (4 Oz) of it and was pinging of its head the whole night. Swimming faster than any other oscar. These ice creams are loadd with sugar and carbs, so the Oscar must of enjoyed the extra energy.

 

[brcacti]

Not aquarium but related story; My wife and I were at the sea of cortez last weekend swimming and collecting shells. The next morning early about 4:30 something was clanging around in the bathroom of the hotel, it woke us up and I got up to releive myself and found one of the shells out of a bunch on the bathroom sink was on the floor, a hermit crab has crawled out and was in the corner of the bathroom, the shell on the floor.

 

[TheOneThatGotAway]

Uhm.....well I've had a Chinese Algae-eater chase an ADF, causing the ADF to jump outta the tank through the filter hole in the lid and land in my shoe...

And my uncle had a JDF in a 100gal that jumped out while I was staying over, and i grabbed it like 2 seconds before the cats. The ungrateful lil brat bit me, too. He was fine after that.

I've had bettas threaten themselves. Not their reflections, their real bodies. One even started chasing his tail.

And the last thing is a few fish in a community tank (mostly small angels) eat something i couldn't see (dead skin, maybe?) off my fingertips without fear.

Ok. Im done.

 

[wataugachicken]

* had my senegal bichir jump out of the tank, found him the next morning dry, covered in dust and cat hair, and assumed he was dead. started to wrap him up in a paper towel so his 'burial at trashcan' wouldn't scare my roommates, and he twitched. i put his back in the tank and held him in the filter current. slowly he woke up, started moving, and within 20 minutes he was swimming freely again. he had one scrape on his side which has since healed up.

*bought a third female betta for my female betta tank. floated the bag for a while, then took it out and put the fish in. looked in the tank, couldn't find one of the other females. looked around didn't see it, nothing on the floor but a little leaf. figured maybe it was just hiding, came back ten minutes later. suspicious, i looked at the "leaf" again. it was the betta! didn't look at all like a fish the first time i saw it. put her back in the tank but she didn't make it.

*my boyfriend would feed crickets to his silver aro. one time, not wanting to keep them in the plastic bag, he put them into an empty coffee can. apparently, it wasn't as empty as he though. crickets ate the coffee grounds, went crazy jumping all over when he took them out to feed, aro ate the crickets, started swimming like a maniac. caffeine has a big effect on fish apparently.

*had one SA community tank with angels, plecos, cories, tetras. upgraded the SA community to a 150g three months ago and put oscars into the other tank. cleaned the filter last week and found three baby cories that had been living inside the emperor 400 the whole time. two were in the back of the filter, one was actually surviving inside of the filter stem, fighting the current. the first one i found i immediately put into the big community tank (it had fallen out of the filter stem when i removed the intake strainer to clean it, and i had to grab it before the oscars noticed the free meal). well, i didn't realize how stunned the cory would be, and blinded by the sudden light, so it was sitting, shocked, on the bottom of the big tank and an angel came over and plucked out his eye. things got better from there, though, and all three (including little Patch) are swimming with their parents now.

*last night my bgk came up out of the water to take a worm from my hand. he always takes them underwater, this is the first time he came out to get it.

 

[jloos1988]

Back in highschool, in prehistoric times, I had a running incident of feeders disappearing from my holding vat. I was sure my brother was feeding out my preds to show off to his friends. I accused him, he denied it, blah, blah, blah...
After a few weeks of these continuing disappearances, I happened to come home early from school (nearly graduation) and noticed what looked like a leak from one of the saltwater tanks. Closer examination revealed a wet trail going from the tank to the feeder vat.
It turned out that my mediterranean octopus figured out that it could crawl out of its tank, gorge itself on feeders, and make it back to its tank without any adverse effects. I guess the trail was dried out enough to not be noticed by the time I usually arrived home.
I clamped the octos cover down so it couldn't forage for itself. At least I had an answer to why it was off its feed lately.
BTW, I still have yet to apologize to my brother for accusing him of feeder theft.

thats the most inquisitive, brave, and cunning fish iv ever heard of

 

[bartier]

Who cares if it's not a fish that's amazing. By the what is up with that picture?

 

[ddyerfamily]

I love checking this thread !

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LMAO

 

[yourockit]

1. saw a feeder fish looking out at me and still breathing from inside the mouth of an oscar.
2. i started with 50 feeders. the oscar ate four or so a day. the second to last one jumped out of the tank. i caught him mid air.
3.my pleco got half way stuck in a filter tube. my caribas came and ate the half that stuck out, his tail. he was still breathing when i found his dumb ass. just a head and some guts but still breathing.

 

[silentskream]

my archers "pass" mealworms back and forth to each other.
they apparently dont like the texture, so they bite it, spit it out, then the other bites it, spits it back out, then the first one bites it, spits it back out.

they'll play pass the mealworm for 10 minutes before one of them finally swallows the darn thing.

the funny thing is that the archers are the most timid fish in the tank.. i have a school of giant danios that try to intercept the passing game. every once in a while they're fast enough to get it, and they'll swim around the tank parading with a mealworm half stuck out of the tank like he's smoking a cigar.