The worst I've had is Visitherm heater boiling my S. daemon and juruparis, was well gutted, and lost a tnak of communty fish to yet another Visitherm, needless to say I haven't had a Visitherm for a number of years now

Also lost my female salvini that I travelled to London for, she and a bif twice her size decided to do battle (had lived together for over a year with no probs), lasted hours with both fish keeling over at the end of it

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That's pretty horrific mate, sorry to hear about it. That's some committment travelling virtually the length of Britain for that Salvini mate

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Only one that I would call major and that was loosing £250-300 of rift valley cichlids.

Needless to say I was gutted and never really kept them after that I held on to what was left and took care of it but went right off them I was totally gutted.

Basically my tank use to run on just 2 fluval 303 these are old design and generally pretty good although they can be a bugger to start. Anyway had a power cut and because I had power breakers on everything plugged into the tank they didn't reset when the power came back on. I was doing shift work at the time so the tank was running filterless for about 8 hours in the summer my parents didin't notice they were not working as the tank was in a back room.

When they did notice and started doing something about it I had already lost about 15 fish including my breeding group of adult Crytocara morii all in excess of 5" long they were stunning my ahli 2 males both about 8" long plus 4 females and numerous other haplochromines. I was absolutley gutted I had grown all the fish on from being inch long tidlers. Anyway gave up rift valleys after that to much of a knock for me hence keeping slightly less demanding fish now that can cope with a power cut, I also have a generator on standby though.

Oh yes and all power breakers have been removed and I will never use power breakers again.

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Thweeerp!

i take it they died from lack of o2 then Alan?

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My worst one has got to be leaving a bottle of aftershave on top of the pirahna tank( you can guess what happened ) atleast they didnt smell bad though when i pulled them all out, i was gutted at the time but have to laugh about it now

Not my disater but on the old forum i remember reading someone had there kids friends round or something like that and they poured a tin of paint into his malawi tank can't remember who it was.......

A long time ago whilst I was working away, my two kids who were very young at the time deceided that the new marine tank we had did'nt look blue enough and poured a bottle of blue ink into it. The fish did'nt take very kindly to the new additive.

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The worst I've had so far has been when an air pump fell into a bucket of water which was being heated for a water change. Luckily all that happened was that the water got pumped out and the heater cracked.

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Telboy and his son helped me move my 48x18x24 from one part of bedroom to another today, the plan was to have it empty, but when Telboy came i still had 50% of the sand in and about 10% of the water and all the fish!

The three of us lifted it and moved it, but with 10% of water still in it and all that sand it wasn't "text book" for those that have moved tanks, you will guess that a 48x18x24 (10ml glass) with 10% water in it is heavy!!!

Not sure about you tel, but for a split second there i thought it was all going to go wrong!

Disaster avoided (just)

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My Nans tank, 4x18x18 with Blue Severum, and a trio of jurupari and 4 cigar fish(vile lonk things which you cannot get rid of) a Visitherm heater overheated and killed all but the cigar fish

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