What is the latest thing that has gone wrong for you?
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Bought a tig for 300$. Gave my tank ick killed 400$ worth of clown loaches before I could get it under control.
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My catfish tanks filter burnt out on me. So imagine many monster cats with an emperor 350 on it right now.
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And now all my Molly fry are dying!! Just the ones born a week ago, all the others are fine.
WHY DO FISH HATE ME.
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WHY DO FISH HATE ME.
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- During a tank change yesterday I noticed that my Calico Ryukin (male) beat up my Lionhead Ranchu (female). She's missing an eye (got her that way) and he somehow opened up the wound, which I thought had healed up long ago. Had to dig out the divider, which I hate having to setup.
- I've had this one piece of mopani wood forever and finally put it back into my tank only for it to cause a huge brown algae bloom. It took me forever to clean off all the rock slates in my tank.
- One of my otto cats got stuck in a piece of bogwood and I had to pry him out. I thought he was going to die the way he was rapidly breathing but this morning is doing fine.
- Bought 4 pangio loaches (not quite sure which species, could be alternans, cuneovirgata, malayana or possibly semicincta) and all but one died. I know it wasn't my tank or params, and after checking all of them they had inflamed gills with sand sticking to their body making me think they'd been roughly handled and in rough sub. A friend of mine got 6 and most of his died also, so I know it was a bad batch, which makes me mad since the banded ones are hard to find here.
- The flame moss I had sitting outside in green water died. Not sure why but now I only have a little moss left.
Not to mention I got a case of ich a few months ago which wiped out half the stock of my 29. Had finally got my tank right and took a few guppies from a friend, then chaos..
Though this hobby can be irritating, I wouldn't give it up. Been through to much to give up now lol
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- I've had this one piece of mopani wood forever and finally put it back into my tank only for it to cause a huge brown algae bloom. It took me forever to clean off all the rock slates in my tank.
- One of my otto cats got stuck in a piece of bogwood and I had to pry him out. I thought he was going to die the way he was rapidly breathing but this morning is doing fine.
- Bought 4 pangio loaches (not quite sure which species, could be alternans, cuneovirgata, malayana or possibly semicincta) and all but one died. I know it wasn't my tank or params, and after checking all of them they had inflamed gills with sand sticking to their body making me think they'd been roughly handled and in rough sub. A friend of mine got 6 and most of his died also, so I know it was a bad batch, which makes me mad since the banded ones are hard to find here.
- The flame moss I had sitting outside in green water died. Not sure why but now I only have a little moss left.
Not to mention I got a case of ich a few months ago which wiped out half the stock of my 29. Had finally got my tank right and took a few guppies from a friend, then chaos..
Though this hobby can be irritating, I wouldn't give it up. Been through to much to give up now lol
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my gf is upset with me cause the house across the street caught fire and she texted me bunch after i asked if she was ok (i assumed DUH, of course she is, not her house that caught fire but i asked just to be nice) and was all like 'you wernt there for me, i was really afraid blahblahblah'
3 clown loaches dead all beat up. Fish putting sand in intake tubes making impellers stop.
30 gallon got a leak.
Fire eel sucked up by canister filter intake tube.( found clogged in morning with a dead eel)
Snail found in sand decomposing. 75 pounds of wet sand removed.
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30 gallon got a leak.
Fire eel sucked up by canister filter intake tube.( found clogged in morning with a dead eel)
Snail found in sand decomposing. 75 pounds of wet sand removed.
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345 sprung a leak after I moved it inside from the garage test fill. Luckily it didn't have substrate yet so all I had to to was drain and re-seal, to bad I found the leak at 2am.
I bought a pair of 18" disc henlei rays to breed. i lost power within hours of getting them home and didn't get utter back for 2 days. both got serious infections from the stress and my male died. 500g breeding project fail.
I've had the absolute worst luck with my 75 gallons wet/dry sump.
I first had frankly no idea how to set the darn thing up, as it was from CL. I talked to my moms ex over the phone, since he has one exactly like mine (with the built in corner over flow) and helped me. This was about a week ago, since then
-I have spent at least 5 hours messing with different pumps, trying to make it work, getting everything wet in the process
-the tank has over flowed twice now at least, not only soaking the floor, bed, and clothes, but also causing my baby sen bichir, Namine to end up in the overflow, same with my new peacock eel, Mushu.
-the sump has overflowed, more water everywhere
-my filter would just not work, no matter how low the pump was on, the drain just wouldn't drain fast enough (which caused the tank to overflow, then the opposite causing the sump to overflow)
- I spent 5 hours yesterday messing with the filter, trying to make it work, ended up going to my LFS, getting stuff to build a "silencer" out of PVC, which was supposed to help
-Get back, on a whim, check the return hose, there was a piece of foam stuck in there, removed foam, return and pump works just fine
A piece of foam only 4" long caused ALL my problems, which of course, I stuck in the return pipe so fish wouldn't go down there, and clearly forgot to remove. I have spent at least 10-15 hours trying to make that darn filter work.
-my heater, which is in the wet/dry underneath the the piles of bio balls, broke and the other one needed to get turned up, and of course, it is the old one where you have to use a dime to turn it up, which involves removing said filter media or scraping your hand and bumping your head so you can adjust it
Other than that, everything is going good now.
I first had frankly no idea how to set the darn thing up, as it was from CL. I talked to my moms ex over the phone, since he has one exactly like mine (with the built in corner over flow) and helped me. This was about a week ago, since then
-I have spent at least 5 hours messing with different pumps, trying to make it work, getting everything wet in the process
-the tank has over flowed twice now at least, not only soaking the floor, bed, and clothes, but also causing my baby sen bichir, Namine to end up in the overflow, same with my new peacock eel, Mushu.
-the sump has overflowed, more water everywhere
-my filter would just not work, no matter how low the pump was on, the drain just wouldn't drain fast enough (which caused the tank to overflow, then the opposite causing the sump to overflow)
- I spent 5 hours yesterday messing with the filter, trying to make it work, ended up going to my LFS, getting stuff to build a "silencer" out of PVC, which was supposed to help
-Get back, on a whim, check the return hose, there was a piece of foam stuck in there, removed foam, return and pump works just fine
A piece of foam only 4" long caused ALL my problems, which of course, I stuck in the return pipe so fish wouldn't go down there, and clearly forgot to remove. I have spent at least 10-15 hours trying to make that darn filter work.-my heater, which is in the wet/dry underneath the the piles of bio balls, broke and the other one needed to get turned up, and of course, it is the old one where you have to use a dime to turn it up, which involves removing said filter media or scraping your hand and bumping your head so you can adjust it
Other than that, everything is going good now.
