Worst fishkeeping disaster
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lunk71;1524437; said:mine just happened ten minutes ago... figured i would move my 4 1/2" TSN into a bigger tank with my 6-7in oscar ...... he barley hit the water and ended up half way down the O's throat...... i managed to spook the O into spitting my cat .. and he's back in the tank he started with for now .. but he seems to have a damaged fin and a small flesh wound on his head behind his eyes .. hope he turns out ok .. ive gotten attached and hes prolly my favorite
..."DAMMIT MAN" what was i thinking?
update - TSN was all over the tank and slamming guppies at 6:00am ..... i think hes gonna be fine ...
i luckily havent had anything serious - a few years ago i lost about 15 fish from my 29 gallon after finding ich in the tank, going on vacation, and leaving my grandmother to treat the tank
that was about the most serious thing i have ever had occur
that was about the most serious thing i have ever had occur
One time at work (fish shop), i added a bit too much melafix to a feeder tank. It was around 75 gallons with a sump setup. Well...to say the least, it was a bubble bath. Took about an hours worth of constant water changes and foam skimming to get it back to normal.
My disaster was for a medical treatment for ICH!!! a very common disease. I dont know what happened, of course i aply the correct dosification, and the answer of the producer( very well knowed in my country) was so silly...
I had 6 beauty clown loach, the oldest 8 years in my tank, in all this time they never came ill. Two days after I aply the product against ich ,all was dead. And only the loaches, no afect to the scalares, gyrynocheillus, ancistrus or other fish on my tank. You can see the photos of the dead loaches on this post:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121113
That's my worst disaster...at the moment
I had 6 beauty clown loach, the oldest 8 years in my tank, in all this time they never came ill. Two days after I aply the product against ich ,all was dead. And only the loaches, no afect to the scalares, gyrynocheillus, ancistrus or other fish on my tank. You can see the photos of the dead loaches on this post:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121113
That's my worst disaster...at the moment
I was out of town with work when my wife called to tell me that there is a water leak in the basement. The only water near where the leak was was the main line from the well pump. I told her to shut down the whole house water and call a plumber. After she shut down the water and the leak continued. So she tore out a section of the drywall cieling to find the pipe which was dry! The leak happened to be in the only finished part of the basement. THEN she goes into our bedroom to call me back and looks at my 38gallon hex which now has about 3" of water left in it. What really got me was that the hex was about 6yrs old and was resealed 2 yrs. earlier. I have tanks that are 30 yrs. old that I've never had trouble with.
A second diaster was when a house from a canister filter discounted and drained 3/4 of my 75 into a heating duct. Ruining my furance and soom of the duct lines.
Now I won't keep more than a 10gallon above the ground floor!
A second diaster was when a house from a canister filter discounted and drained 3/4 of my 75 into a heating duct. Ruining my furance and soom of the duct lines.
Now I won't keep more than a 10gallon above the ground floor!
oh wait, forgot about this-
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82931
left fish with different person for 2 week,- lost a few grand in fish- fun.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82931
left fish with different person for 2 week,- lost a few grand in fish- fun.
My worst fishkeeping disaster happened while acutally trying to ensure the health of my animals. i did a large waterchange (75%) to my 75 gallon ray/dat tank around 10 am came home at 2 am the next morning to find my ray/baby dats/silver dollars/and 2 of my 5 severums dead. My bichirs also made it thank god. Apparently during winter, when my well water is colder, gas tends to be more contentrated and even after applying a healthy dose of prime and aquarium salt, my animals died.
i will never change more than 50% ever again, i was so pissed.
i will never change more than 50% ever again, i was so pissed.
have had 2-3
1)have a 10' foot pond in the garden
haven't got a good drain system to it and during the rainy season had to go out and manually remove water so that it doesn't overflow
so my father had a brain wave and tried a new drain system and when it rained loads of my carps went in the drain and got stuck and when i came out in the garden there were 36 carps on the lawn
i tried putting them back in the tank and 7 of them survived the disaster
2)one of my feeder tanks was full with feeders kind of overstocked to the limit
6 hr power outage and 38 of them dead
3)this was the worst disaster i have ever faced and unfortunately this affected my african chiclid pond. some change in water chemistry by the water dept, after the routine water change all my african chiclids were dead one after the other in a weeks time, had taken me 1 full year to find them and stock my pond, anyways 3 of the zebra survived this one and right now are the big bosses in the pond
1)have a 10' foot pond in the garden
haven't got a good drain system to it and during the rainy season had to go out and manually remove water so that it doesn't overflow
so my father had a brain wave and tried a new drain system and when it rained loads of my carps went in the drain and got stuck and when i came out in the garden there were 36 carps on the lawn
i tried putting them back in the tank and 7 of them survived the disaster
2)one of my feeder tanks was full with feeders kind of overstocked to the limit
6 hr power outage and 38 of them dead
3)this was the worst disaster i have ever faced and unfortunately this affected my african chiclid pond. some change in water chemistry by the water dept, after the routine water change all my african chiclids were dead one after the other in a weeks time, had taken me 1 full year to find them and stock my pond, anyways 3 of the zebra survived this one and right now are the big bosses in the pond
