weirdest fish incident

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ewurm;941989; said:
One night I went to feed my constantly begging oscar. I opened the lid and grabbed the bag of Hikari Bio-gold. My affinity for fish food got the best of me, and I started reading the back of the bag, scanning through the ingredients. The bastard oscar decided he couldn't wait anymore and leaped completely out of the tank, hitting me in the chest and falling on the floor. Scared the crap out of me, sending pellets spewing onto my rug and me scrambling to chase a flopping oscar around my living room. No injury to the fish, I broke his fall. I wouldn't be surprised if he managed to eat a few pellets off the carpet while I was chasing him.

:ROFL: :ROFL: I think we have a winner.... To me this seems like a scene out of a naked gun movie. Maybe the oscar will smack OJ in the re-enactment
 
When I was about 14 I had a turtle tank with 2 turtles that always tried to escape. One day I came home from school 1 was gone. I search and never found the turtle. When the house was sold I figured that I would either finf the turtle or atleast mangled remains of what the cat did. No dice. I still have no clue where that turtle went. If i ever find a magic lamp my first wish will be to solve that mystery....the second will be for that 50000 gal in the basement:D
 
Oddball;858677; said:
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.

Hehe, I know that octopusses definetly do that.
 
I used to have a Jardini a long time ago, and would on occasion catch frogs to feed him. Well, once night I walked up to the store, and managed to find two very small frogs on the road, so I put them in my pocket. I got home, and popped one into the tank, and the other into a jar I had sitting around. The next day, I put the second one from the jar into the tank and watched TV. I assumed he had eaten them, but one day I was making a Microwave Pizza. I put it into the microwave and punched in the numbers. I heard a strange cracking but I really didn't think anything of it. When I got my Pizza Out, I saw a crumpled little bit in the back, and I assumed it was a crumb. Upon further inspection, it was a throughly cooked frog. I never did understand how he ended up there. The next week, I was cleaning my room at my girlfriend's request. Low and Behold, a frog came jumping out from under my TV stand. I watched the Jar eat it this time.
 
one morning i was at work when i get a phone call from my little brother who says there is a "hairy mutant tarantula spider with big claws" and it's chasing him and his friends at the house. he wants me to leave work to come home a catch it. i told him to ignore it that the house spider will eat the other bugs, its harmless. after 10 or so more phone calls from home i left work. when i get home, there is a plastic kitchen strainer on the floor with a brick on top of it. and picture this, three 17 year old boys and 2 girls all drawed up on the couch with their feet pulled up off the floor staring at the strianer. i went over to it and before i picked it pu, my brothers said " dont pickk it up, its really fast and you'll let ot get away" ignoring him i picked it up to find it was the red fiddler crab i brought hime the night before. it was half dried up and covered in dog hair.

i still tease him about the mutant alien spider
 
I got three;
1. When i went to the army i left a 10g crayfish tank in my bedroom with a air pump running. 7months later, i came back home, and my bedroom smelled like a sewer pipe exploded in my bedroom. Of course, it's from the tank, so i went to wash it out thinking nothing can be alive in there. Lo and behold, found about a hundred baby crayfish in there swimming around in there.

2. When i was a teen, had a large shoal of neons with six black skirt tetras. Every day, few neons would go missing, and i never figured out what happened until one night when i came to check on the tank by chance, and saw a neon tetra with its tail sticking out of the big black skirt's mouth. Mystery solved.

3. Not a fish story, but still... when i was about six and still living in Shanghai, China, i had a little turtle given to me by my big cousin. It swims around in a tub, but one winter, he was left up on the sun roof and winters in Shanghai are brutal. I went to check on the turtle because my cousin said he forgot to bring him inside. The whole tub (only size of a wash basin) was completely frozen solid with the poor tutle's butt sticking out of the air. I screamed and cried for my cousin, and he rushed over, saw what happened, got the whole chunk of ice, and smashed the thing to pieces. I thought for sure the turle died, and was crying, but my cousin told me to come over, and i saw the turtle was alive, and swimming around in a new tub of water like nothing happened. (will never forget that one til the day i die).
 
Years ago in my first fishroom I had a few hatchetfish. one day when feeding I noticed I had left the cover off thier tank.And some were missing.I found TWO of them in another tank 7' across the room and 3' HIGHER!!!
Now the thing that really still bakes my noodle was did they make it in one clear jump or did they touch down in the oscar tank halfway across the room?
 
I was doing a water change siphoning into 5 gal buckets. I was just about to start to fill the 2nd bucket and had looked down onto the floor for something when something hit the brim of my baseball cap and splashed into the 1st bucket. It was my dentex that decided to make a break for it w/the top open but was thwarted by the correctly worn cap. Otherwise, would have been *****slapped in the face if I had the cap backwards.:nilly:
 
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