worst thing to do when your not home

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That sucks, I almost lost a piranha after 7 years...
Brother in-law accidentally unplugged heater and filter for 2 days...
The water in tank was colder than came out of the tap by many degrees....
The fish made it fine.
 
halofishboy;899022; said:
i left my fish to be kept by my parents and my sister while i was away for school for about a month and when i come home i lost a managuense, a red devil, and my flowerhorn is on the brink...
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Yeah, if you can't take care of your fish for awhile, better to find someone that knows what they are doing. That sucks!
 
I left for training for 3 months and my wife and daughter kept all my 6 tanks running and clean.Biggest being a 230 gallon.They even raised a 2 1/2" black aro for 3 months without dying.Didn't lose a fish!!! I think it was all in the instructions I left for them on each tank for feeding. The instructions where broken down for each day of the week. I showed them how to clean the tanks and where to lower the water too.I even showed her how to clean the filters.Thank God most of the filters where aquaclears. And the funniest thing is she couldn't care less about my fish hobby. Now hows that for a family!!! Its all in the INSTRUCTIONS.
 
Its happened to me too, i used to have a goldfish when i was a kid, my mum and brother killed it by my mum and bro and various other people in the house seriously over-feeding it all the time when i was away at boarding school. I was really gutted when i lost that goldfish...

How exactly did your family kill your fish?
 
my mom unplugged a cord or something and the ilter didn't work so thats how my RD died and my flowerhorn was horribly beat up by a jaguar and and oscar due to not enough food.. and the shovelnose ... lets just say they didn't feed it
 
I fixed those problems...

provided that we don't get a power outage...
electronic fish feeders + automated water changes...I've been gone as much as 3 weeks and my fish don't even seem to miss me :cry:
 
I went off to OCS when I joined the army and left my 50 gal with a couple oscars for my dad to look after. I'd had the tank for two years with never a misshap.

I should mention at this point that my father is a marine engineer.

I came home a brand new 2nd Lieutenant for a visit a year later to find that my tank had been relocated to his work bench, empty of gravel, and full of water with a model of a tenso-genic tower for a patent he was working on.

"What hapened to my fish?" I asked

"Oh they lasted for a couple of months and then I noticed a smell coming from your room...."

You can't always hold your family to an equivalent standard when it comes to keeping fish. I was living on base and couldnt look after the tank anyway. I should have given them away.
 
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