The arrowana jumped out as a coworker at the lfs I work at was cleaning his tank. The owner tried to catch it but it slid through his hands and instead of hitting the floor he fell into the feeder goldfish tank... he was having a great time until he realized that it was cold as hell... he did fine until he jumped out a week later... and died...
Whats your most memorable Fish Drama?
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The thing that hurt me the most was when I lost one of my cichla 
Still annoyed because I never knew why.
Also recently my leichardti jumped out. I was so annoyed!
And just the other week my 6 year old bala shark died. It hurt because he was one of the first fish I ever purchased
Still annoyed because I never knew why.Also recently my leichardti jumped out. I was so annoyed!
And just the other week my 6 year old bala shark died. It hurt because he was one of the first fish I ever purchased
The worst ever was when i was about 15 and my dad had a 800 gallon salt water tank one day we woke up and all the water in the tank had some how leaked out killing all the fish. and my dad tried to fit about 100KG of coral in a 20 gallon quaritine tank. That was a bad day. lost about 90% of everything in that tank. Then a week later we had a pond in the garden with about 5 or 6 koi carp all about 18 inches long and they all randomly died. Such a bad month.
I had a 18' x 4'x 3' glass saltwater aquarium in my old shop location. It had recently cycled and it had 6 black tip sharks, 1 lemmon shark, 2 huge parrot fish, and a show size Maculosis angel. THere were also several smaller fish like tangs, etc. The company I hired to help finish installing all the trim on the aquarium stands shot a nail into the top of one of the side panels of glass, knocked a large chip out of the glass but it was hidden by the trim. Naturally I was not informed this happened. Withing a week a run in the glass started and the pressure from the water put a large diagonal crack from top to bottom. It was fortunetly right at one of the center braces so the tank didn't come apart. I put a piece of duct tape over the crack to slow the leak (it was spraying out water pretty bad) and put every submersible pump I had in the shop in the tank to drain it fast, I was scared it might come apart. The largest aquarims I had to put the sharks in were only 125, these sharks were 18" to 20" and would not make it in them. I had a 300 but it had copper in it (copper kills sharks) TO save the sharks lives I GAVE THEM AWAY to my service accounts that had large enough aquariums to house them. (Have you priced black tip sharks?!!!) Two died, the lemon died, the show maculosus died, one of the parrots died, sold the other one. I never had any intention of selling these fish, it was a big cool display tank for me to have some fun with. Talk about a huge dissapointment, My dream aquarium was broken, my kick ass (and expensive) fish collection was gone, I lost my ass financially giving them away. TO add insult to injury, I could not get the company who caused the damage to pay for it. A bout a year later I patched the glass and filled it back up but never got it back to the way it was. I moved out of that building a year or two later and sold the glass.
I have some picture of the tank during the assemble of it and after it was up and running. I'll scan them in and put them in my gallery this week.
Joel
I have some picture of the tank during the assemble of it and after it was up and running. I'll scan them in and put them in my gallery this week.
Joel
Drama, as opposed to just bad stuff, I guess it is a toos up between being awoken one night to the sound of a pike cichlid ramming a rock through the end panel of a 35g tank, and spending 2 hours trying to net a 3' american eel out of a swimming pool without letting it get into the over flows. Slippery little devil.
Oh, dear....
How about the time at work....well, there's several!
Like the time I was cleaning a Magnum filter and forgot to place the outtake cover back on the suction tube, and the next day found my six inch long bamboo shark sucked up inside up to his dorsal fin?
Or the time I didn't put the air stones back in a silver dollar/lima shovelnose exhibit, since I had been told they were useless and for decoration only, and 9 silver dollars and 1 adult lima keeled over?
Or the time I tried to net a large marine lionfish, and the damn thing leapt from the tank, nearly hitting me with his pec fin on the way down, and made a sick thump when he hit the tile floor?
Or the time my boss didn't QT any of the new lions she bought, and put in a total of 5 lionfish in a 55 gallon tank, plus all the rockwork and starfish...and we lost every single lion, plus a very old bird wrasse?
Although I have to admit, the shark story above....that one hurts.
How about the time at work....well, there's several!
Like the time I was cleaning a Magnum filter and forgot to place the outtake cover back on the suction tube, and the next day found my six inch long bamboo shark sucked up inside up to his dorsal fin?
Or the time I didn't put the air stones back in a silver dollar/lima shovelnose exhibit, since I had been told they were useless and for decoration only, and 9 silver dollars and 1 adult lima keeled over?
Or the time I tried to net a large marine lionfish, and the damn thing leapt from the tank, nearly hitting me with his pec fin on the way down, and made a sick thump when he hit the tile floor?
Or the time my boss didn't QT any of the new lions she bought, and put in a total of 5 lionfish in a 55 gallon tank, plus all the rockwork and starfish...and we lost every single lion, plus a very old bird wrasse?
Although I have to admit, the shark story above....that one hurts.
ohh..so many drama.. cant even choose which one to reply to.
That marine tank leak is awful ! That would really drive me insane if that
had ever happened to me.
And a dead fish because it jumped out is always super tragic. Always. Who can forget the sick feeling of seeing a dried fish on the floor?
That marine tank leak is awful ! That would really drive me insane if that
had ever happened to me.
And a dead fish because it jumped out is always super tragic. Always. Who can forget the sick feeling of seeing a dried fish on the floor?
when i sold a mated pair of reddevils to a dope man for 200bucks. he said his tank of redbellys would kill them. he got mad and wanted his money back. i had to say look man i just work in this pet store, he gave them back. phewww
just happened, Katrina.
I just setup a 150 in feb and had it fully done and everyone living happy. Not to mention my old tanks: 10, 55 and 30. I just had a male texas and female festae hook up. My LFS already said that when they reach 1-2" they would buy some. By now they were that size and was showing them pics.
Couple of days later here comes katrina. knocks out power for 3 weeks. I wasnt worried about the storm but fam draged me out. 2 weeks and I finally get to see the damage. The 55 is gone (Kenyi pair, boreyeli, burundi and Blue texas), 10 with female festae barely hangin in, 150 only the red tiger and (2) TF mix still moving, 30 has most of the abies still going with no probs.
So Ive gone from about 50 babies to around 25 (food factor) and some of the smaller ones are starting to die off as well. Tried saving the Tiger but that ecame food as well i guess. Now Im almost fully back up and all tanks have the mix in them. hopefully some can and will breed.
I just setup a 150 in feb and had it fully done and everyone living happy. Not to mention my old tanks: 10, 55 and 30. I just had a male texas and female festae hook up. My LFS already said that when they reach 1-2" they would buy some. By now they were that size and was showing them pics.
Couple of days later here comes katrina. knocks out power for 3 weeks. I wasnt worried about the storm but fam draged me out. 2 weeks and I finally get to see the damage. The 55 is gone (Kenyi pair, boreyeli, burundi and Blue texas), 10 with female festae barely hangin in, 150 only the red tiger and (2) TF mix still moving, 30 has most of the abies still going with no probs.
So Ive gone from about 50 babies to around 25 (food factor) and some of the smaller ones are starting to die off as well. Tried saving the Tiger but that ecame food as well i guess. Now Im almost fully back up and all tanks have the mix in them. hopefully some can and will breed.
