Your biggest mistake

[its_an_obsession]

got drunk. blacked out. tried to find the bathroom. tripped on a trunk on the floor. fist found a 10 gallon tank. whoops

 

[Cisc]

Didn't bother to read up on using driftwood from lakes before tossing it in my 55 with my jd and then going on vacation. I could smell the rotting log + fish as soon as I walked in the front door.

 

[xFLEAxx]

Decided that rinsing gravel before putting it in the tank was not important.

 

[Veloth]

I grabbed the flake food instead of the freeze dried blood worms(which ha a shaker lid) dumped the entire can of flakes into my 55 gal. I was cleaning that mess for two days. But I'm very new at this so give me more time I'm sure I can top that.

 

[zennzzo]

my biggest mistake was the fish i bought..i thought they were cool untill i got them in my tank i got 3 tiger barbs, 2 black skirt tetras, peacock eel, african brown knife, and two oscars...the only two that i kinda like are the oscars now im stuck with these other fish i dont like they are just taking up space. lesson learned.

Well now you have Christmas presents for your fish keeping friends...

 

[aspear]

thinking a 6 inch sun cat would live with 1 inch rosy reds

 

[andyjs]

thinking a 6 inch sun cat would live with 1 inch rosy reds

Oh it would, but I don't think 1" rosies would live with a 6" sun cat

 

[Spankbelly]

Falling down the basement stairs in the dark at 4am after unexpectedly stepping on an escaped crayfish.
I had a brief vision of a rabid monster movie rat gnawing on my bare foot, jerked back and missed the step.
Neither I nor my intermission snacks made it entirely intact to the comfort of my Lazy-Boy and the remainder of the monster movie marathon.
The phrase "ass over tea kettle" may have been coined for just such an occasion.

 

[QueueBa11]

when i was about 15yrs old, forgot to turn down my heater, and literally boiled one of my tanks cause I went out with my friends.

Did the same thing when I first started. The heater cracked and cooked fish.

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

My very first fish I every owned;

I had a South American Puffer that needed it's teeth clipped every 4 months. I fed him clams, crawdads and home grown snails, but still the clipping needed doing. So every 4 months I put One drop of clove oil in 3 cups of tank water and put him under to do it. This went on for years. Then one day I had a brain fart and accidentally put three drops of clove oil for one cup of tank water. He died. I was devastated. Lesson learned.