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| Posted | Whats the worst mistake youve ever made in fishkeeping! |
| 20-11-2007 09:39 by Woz |
im sure everyones made them, and lets be honest now even if it means you getting mocked  |
| 20-11-2007 09:42 by Woz |
ill start, when preparing for a night round town i left my aftershave on top of my fishtank, my little cousin was here at the time....ill leave the rest for you, all i say is that when i got home in the early hours there was a tank of floating pirahnas  |
| 20-11-2007 09:51 by Big Rob |
let the council workers in |
| 20-11-2007 10:40 by woody007 |
A few months ago i had new people move in next door,the old guy who lived there (jeff) had died ,he loved my fish so when doing some building work on my living room we knocked through a hole into jeffs and put a 5ft tank in the wall between the two house's this was great jeff could feed the fish when i was away and could also get the same enjoyment as me,we both had hours of fun watching the fish ,it was also funny to see jeff's face when i looked through the tank,sometimes when i found it hard to resist i would give him a quick moon,any way he passed away in march,and i had a family from poland move in ,now my fish keep vanishing????you work out the rest. |
| 20-11-2007 11:06 by Jessica |
I'd go round and have a word 
Cheeky so and so's. Lovely story btw. I want a 6 ft tank in my wall, but think it would cost too much |
| 20-11-2007 11:26 by curviceps |
Years back I was looking after a red top malawi for someone and advised me his 4" fish would be ok for me to put my 1.5" female salvinis in with it. They killed the redtop within 10 mins |
| 20-11-2007 12:49 by Fry Lover |
A Juwel Rio 300 fell of its stand in all its glory, about 250 litres of water and 40- odd fish went straight onto the lounge floor. It was my fault as the "stand" was a manky chest of drawers and i should have known better.
Used Protozin on fish i got from LFS, left them in a big bucket of it for a few hours and when i came back, about 80% of the fish (all tetra's) were dead from copper poisoning, i'd used too much protozin. About £30 of fish killed for no reason. Dropped a DVD player in a tank, it sank straight to the bottom. And still works to this day! Basically i had some stuff sitting on the lid while i was having a sort out. The lids collapsed not suprisingly then all of a sudden there was a DVD player, about 6 books, and a load of bamk statements in my tank (Rio 300)  |
| 20-11-2007 13:22 by Woz |
also when it flooded, not exactly my fault, but sens as my fish swam absolutely everywhere, one of my "kind" neighbours caught them all and put them in there green recycling bin which had just been cleaned out with disinfectant, well seens as the biggest koi where the easiest to spot and catch, all of them got put in the bin and died, all my small koi and goldfish survived because they got left alone. we ended up with about 20extra goldfish which werent ours because everyone kept catching them and chucking them in our pond thinking they were ours...still doesnt make up for 8 BIG dead koi worth in excess of £100 each |
| 20-11-2007 13:23 by kingfisher |
One day my young daughter was watching me move my giraffe cat fish breading pair from my main tank in the living room to a smaller breading tank in the utility room. Whilst I was out the room I heard a commotion coming from the living room. My daughter had pulled up a chair and tried to copy me getting the fish out and fallen in head first! Knowing that she was doing well at her swimming lessons I quickly took the breading pair to their breeding tank in the utility room and came back and pulled her out. We laugh about it now but it was ages before she went near the fish tank again. |
| 20-11-2007 13:24 by woody007 |
KINGFISHER how bigs your tank . |
| 20-11-2007 13:25 by kingfisher |
Huge takes up half my front room it's about 14x3x3 foot |
| 20-11-2007 13:25 by Woz |
thats what i was thinking woody |
| 20-11-2007 13:25 by Woz |
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| 20-11-2007 13:26 by Woz |
stuff the daughter ,rescue the fish, there more important |
| 20-11-2007 13:26 by woody007 |
What do you keep in it now? |
| 20-11-2007 13:27 by Woz |
what you got in that beast |
| 20-11-2007 13:28 by kingfisher |
3000 guppys and a giraffe cat fish as his mate died
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| 20-11-2007 13:29 by woody007 |
KINGFISHER are you wayne in disguise? |
| 20-11-2007 13:33 by Woz |
how lomg did it take you to count the guppies? |
| 20-11-2007 13:37 by steve mc |
Had a 2 foot arrowana jump out of the tank and smack my daughter on the head as she toddled past.
Amazingly she has no fear of fish! |
| 20-11-2007 13:37 by Fry Lover |
20-11-2007
13:29 by woody007 KINGFISHER are you wayne in disguise? |
| 20-11-2007 13:38 by Fry Lover |
wind up, wind up, everybody wind up  |
| 20-11-2007 13:38 by Fry Lover |
20-11-2007
13:33 by Woz how lomg did it take you to count the guppies? |
| 20-11-2007 13:42 by Woz |
kind of figured after 3000 guppies hahaha ...did take me that long to click though |
| 20-11-2007 14:01 by Fry Lover |
nowt to do with me tho Woz-Master |
| 20-11-2007 14:37 by Woz |
haha bet it aint |
| 20-11-2007 15:26 by drewie |
not unplugging the heater when emptying a tank must have done it atleast ten times |
| 20-11-2007 15:28 by drewie |
also taking my asian red tail catfish from his broken tank and putting in my malawi tank overnight as it was the only other one i had at the time big mistake  |
| 20-11-2007 19:29 by Jessica |
i hear you on the heater drewie. my excuse is the blonde  |
| 20-11-2007 19:31 by drewie |
i need no excuse i am what i am  |
| 20-11-2007 19:34 by Jessica |
a thick **** |
| 20-11-2007 19:46 by drewie |
that be me |
| 20-11-2007 19:50 by bluboy |
the fry that is |
| 20-11-2007 19:50 by bluboy |
brobably gettign six rainbow cichlids. no problem with the fsh or tank but they wont stop breeding two pairs of them. i dont know what to do with them all |
| 20-11-2007 19:53 by drewie |
where are you bluboy ? |
| 20-11-2007 19:55 by drewie |
ignore that just read the other thread |
| 20-11-2007 20:33 by bluboy |
lol
if u want some |
| 20-11-2007 20:33 by bluboy |
the fry that is |
| 20-11-2007 21:18 by drewie |
yeah but it's a long way to come for some something that i can get pretty cheaply at my lfs |
| 20-11-2007 23:07 by telboy |
let the wife know the true cost of fish keeping |
| 21-11-2007 00:12 by tasha |
hmm wen i was lil dad used to have trops and i thaught ill be helpfull and feed the fishh thaught they were hungry so i tipped the whole pot of food in |
| 21-11-2007 01:40 by Woz |
my neiehbour thought her fish were thirsty and tipped a can of coke in the tank! |
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