fins

This was years ago but I had a 20 gal . long set-up dont even remember how many fish were in there, but my nephew and one of his buds were celebrating at our house and, apperantly were celebrating to much because, they got into this fight to make a long story short, one of them ended up with their head being smashed into the side of the aquarium! It was bad water and gravel...and fish everywhere .. at the time we only had the one tank....and did manage to get the fish into drinking glasses luckily we had some big ones.... we found them all but I never did find a betta and we had looked everywhere

Lucy

Talk about panic! Did you buy new glasses or use those again.
LOL, I think I would have bought new ones, something about drinking out of a glass that had fish in it just....

Poor betta, that's sad. You didn't even mention if the guy got hurt. lol

Alessa

Once I dumped the whole can of bloodworms into my 28 gallon by a silly accident! my fish just kept eating and eating and my water started to become foamy and yellow! I quickly ran to get the vacuum and syphon as many as I could out but they where everywhere... I guess it wasnt all that bad, but it did scare me that the water was foamy and yellow and that my piggy platies and guppies just wouldnt stop eating them!

fins

no we threw the cups away after that! but the guy did get hurt but not bad...he lost hair and a piece of skin.......but didnt require stitches.....



i also had kids put pennies in the tank when they were little.

and i remember once i think they put soap not sure but it was something that made the whole tank turn slimy... but no fishy deaths

Slug

I've been lucky so far.

sirdarksol

I take it, Slug, that there were no fish in that tank.

I've been pretty lucky so far. My two big incidents were a heater going overtime and an aquascaping mistake that caused two trapped gold barbs.

Alessa

oh yes! now that sir mentions it, my bf, wanting to surprise me "re-organized" the whole appartment and scared the heck out of me! When I came home and I saw that the aquarium was in a different place, different stand, and he proudly told me that he "didnt need to empty it to move it" the first thing I asked him was "How in this world would you move a 28 gallon without taking the water out?...." then after Inspecting everything carefully for leaks or cracks I fugured that he had connected the heater and it had been ON for hours even though the appartament temperature was above 82 because the AC had broken. I quickly disconnected the heater, added a couple frozen water bottles to the aquarium, sat down and told him:

"baby... dont you EVER do this again.... ok?"

aside from that big scare.. I have been pretty lucky as well.

fins

well i'm glad no fishie deaths ocurred , from those mishaps.
im curious though, how did your bf ever move a filled 28 to change the stand?

Pandora

Long ago, my very first fish tank (though by then had a 2nd already....) cracked while the whole family was away on vacation. Needless to say it was not pretty by the time we got home. There was about an inch of water left in it, and only one of the swordtail fry that had been living in it still alive. Plus the carpet didn't fare too well either...

Alessa

I have no idea, he never really explained how he did it... I think that both stands where about the same height (one has wheels) and he was able to somehow just "push" the aquarium from stand to stand... Thats the only way I can think of!!!

anyways, I couldnt get out the shock for the next hour!

fins

i feel your pain...my one co-worker had a 30 gal saltwater tank...this is what she told me a couple of weeks ago..guess it happened along time ago too...but she had the tank cycling nothing happened....then the 1'st or 2nd day she put fish in it just broke...said salt ate away at the seams? i've never heard that but from what she said water and fish went everywhere.....after that she has never had another tank... i had a 10 gal saltwater before and the salt didnt hurt mine...anyone know what woulda happened with hers? is it possible just seams werent that great but why then would it be ok for a month or however long it was the after putting the fish in it all of a sudden just happened?

J J Indy

When I was 5 years old I got my first tank. I had been begging to get for 3 months I finally got the tank it was cycled and I put neons, red eye's and a cory in it. After it had been up for about 6 months my mom started watching some other kids part time and of course my tank was a hit for all of them to look at well this was about thirty years ago and the heaters hung on the back with the dial on top. Apparently one of the kids turned the knob all the way up, we had gone out shopping and to dinner that evening and when I went to bed I went to feed the fish and they were all belly up and bloated the water was 90 + degrees. I was crushed. I am glad that the heaters are submersible now but I still keep an eye on my kids and the neighbor kids when they are over.

Cody

i had a corner seam on my 30 gallon tank blow out a couple weeks ago, i had a fish get sucked up my fiter intake when i was messing around with the end the pulls off and my platy went up the big intake tube but it survied. iv been lucyky