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| Posted | What is the most stupidest thing youve done re fish, your willing to admit? |
| 21-03-2006 19:40 by clownloachlady |
Come on!!! We have all done it, we all have done stupid things with regards to our fish that we'd rather not admit. |
| 21-03-2006 19:41 by von |
I once trapped a gourami between filter sponges and didn't find her til i cleaned it out a month later, she was flat |
| 21-03-2006 19:43 by clownloachlady |
GROSS!!!! Poor thing! |
| 21-03-2006 19:43 by von |
What have you done |
| 21-03-2006 19:46 by clownloachlady |
Well like i said in the "Sand" thread, i washed my gravel in the bath and blocked the pipes up!
and i can name but a billion more! The best rescue attempt was rescueing a clown loach out of a piece of wood that was decor in the tank. He panicked and hit tusks on either side of his mouth came out and got stuck in the wood. Me and the ex-landlord stood over the tank witht he wood above the water, loach hanging mid air breaking the wood to pieces with knifes and grips... I did like that piece of wood, but had to throw away after... |
| 21-03-2006 19:51 by von |
My clown loaches used to go missing for weeks at a time, i had a smaller tnk then with a juwel internal filter that eventually came away from the back of the tank, as i just had things like platies and peaceful fish i didn't bother to stick it back in and found it much easier to clean the filter by lifting the whole thing out of the tank. Anyway, i took the filter into the kitchen to clean the sponges in the bucket, put the filter casing in the sink, with no water in it, it was in there about 10 mins and then i put the sponges back in only to find my 2 clown loaches sat at the bottom! they were getting in through a tiny hole in the side and quite happily living in there. |
| 21-03-2006 19:53 by Ray |
Hello, the stupidest thing I ever did with fish was climbing on my fish house roof to repair it,and falling through it to impale myself on a tank full of Discus. |
| 21-03-2006 19:54 by clownloachlady |
Anyway off to watch the final of battlestar galictica!!!
PS Here are my clarius's playing in my sewer decor...  |
| 21-03-2006 19:55 by von |
What gravel do you have? looks nice |
| 21-03-2006 19:55 by von |
Forgot to say, the loaches survived, still have them today, that happened about 6 years ago. |
| 21-03-2006 20:51 by nige |
um some of my stupid mistakes are leaving heaters plugged in and smashing them when i have put water back in or mealting the plastic guards. I also put my first tank (a mere 18x6x6") down onto the nozel on the hose. |
| 21-03-2006 22:05 by clownloachlady |
Its black gravel. Bought it from the shop around the corner. She had it in display and it looked really nice!
Has its advantages too, 1. It looks nice 2. You cant see any mess easily 3. So much easier to clean!!! The bad points is that the clarius isnt happy cause he cant go for a dig anymore... |
| 21-03-2006 22:14 by von |
Where do you live? i need some poo hiding substrate! |
| 21-03-2006 22:24 by clownloachlady |
LOL
Torquay |
| 21-03-2006 22:26 by telboy |
isnt it that volcanic lava stone [summat like that]wild woods at crews hill def sell it + most of the larger aquatic shops |
| 21-03-2006 22:33 by clownloachlady |
not sure, i thought id looked like the stuff they use in tarmac.... hehe
It was very dirty mind u! |
| 21-03-2006 23:34 by drummerduck |
Maybe not fish related as such but i flooded my kitchen the other day by leaving my RO unit on..... come on willuk..... speak up son!!
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| 22-03-2006 00:39 by fallenangel2006 |
the most stupid thing i still do is stroke our volitan. ( i dont recommend this to anyone ) but our lion dont act like any normal lion i know of , i think he was a dog in past life , he is protective of the turbo snails and shares hiding places with our damsels . you have to see it to belive it  |
| 22-03-2006 10:57 by clownloachlady |
You stroke that volitan! WOW i lift my hat to you. |
| 22-03-2006 11:25 by Alan |
To many painful memories normally involve synos impailing their fins on my hands when I'm fiddling with the tank and I stupidly get to close.
And yesterday whilst sorting a coral frag that I got from Garry I nearly squashed a bristle worm with my thumb. Numerous electric shocks when I used to use T8 lighting on my marine tank nearly skinned my arm once I grazed the whole inside of my arm on a bracing bar the electric shock sent my arm in to spasm and bobs your uncle I pull my arm out as fast as I can whilst in spasm and I grazed my whole fore arm quite badly there is nothing quite like salt in the wound with blood every where I don't think the fish minded the extra nutrition gained courtesy of the blood in the tank! On the fish front when I was a kid I was having problems with a rosy barb terrorising a communtiy tank so I briefly put the barb in another tank whilst I worked out where to put it, I forgot there was a shovelnose in the tank I put it in. I was attacked by an Oscar once to. When I took my first steps towards marine keeping I had to rehome a couple of oscars and whilst in the shop one decided to give me a parting gift. Imagine this you have a clear bag of the sort used normally for Koi holding the bag against my stomach because it is pretty d@mn heavy. I watched as the Oscar become more and more annoyed and all of a sudden it launched an attach on my stomach ripping a hole in the bag actually hurting me and getting me soaked in the middle of a shop, you should have seen the staff laughing! Oh yes this was a good one my mate decided he wanted to keep a piranha so we go to the shop the bloke says I'll triple bag it just in case well anyway 10 bags later no leaks half way home heading up the A23 the flipping thing bits an almighty hole in the bag in an escape bid so I end up doing an impersonation of Stirling Moss whilst my mate is juggling with a psycho piranha! Amazingly we all survived unscathed including the fish despite its best attempts car is soaked in the process though. |
| 22-03-2006 17:33 by clownloachlady |
Alan i nearly fell of the chair laughing at the piranah storY! |
| 22-03-2006 19:52 by Dagda |
Mine is not watching while hand feeding my puffer i didnt see the lionfish come up for the food. . . . . . and yes it did hurt  |
| 23-03-2006 01:12 by fallenangel2006 |
ouch!
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| 23-03-2006 08:15 by Alan |
arghhhhhh! Did you end up in casualty or was it a dry sting. |
| 24-03-2006 18:53 by Dagda |
neither it was a dwarf lionfish their not as potant as the big fella's !! at first it was like a wasp sting, i put it in as hot water as quick as possible but then it just seamed to get worse and worse kept in the hot water for about 50mins and it seamed to lay off a bit, but i could still feel where i got stung for a week  |
| 25-03-2006 13:09 by acidburn |
hand feeding lionfish.. the same one as fallenangel.... i'm sure he was dog in a past life... he's so friendly... shame we can't take him for a walk!! |
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