Anybody Got Any Horror Stories?

[Blubble37]

I have a few really...

1. Waking up in the morning to find that your filter has mysteriously died, and panicing because you have NOWHERE TO PUT THE MEDIA!!!

2. The heater exploded on my teachers tank sending water everywhere...

3. The aerator caught fire on my school axolotl tank sending smoke into the water and Killing 3 axolotls

4. i left my heater running out of water during a W/C and then grabbed it, 4 hours later i returned home from casualty...

 

[Gilli]

I had just bought a large tub of flake food and stupidly placed it lid off on top of my tank hood while I fed the fish - and yes knocked the whole pot into the tank! My fish thought it was xmas an went into a feeding frenzy while I panicked!

I spent the next couple of hours fishing as much out with a net as I could and doing lots of gravel vacs and water changes, followed by daily water changes and gravel vacs for 2 weeks until my water stats returned to normal

 

[Blubble37]

LOL!!!

 

[Crossfire]

Another horror story: I walked through a generic supermarket aquatic section. Almost threw up.

dear mother of god, what is that?


Thankfully nothing too bad has happened *knock on wood* I once emptied tap water without dechlorinating it first into the tank before realizing what i did 2 minutes later. The worst, I guess, is I have this large, elegant piece of driftwood in my tank, and when I first had my kuhli loach Leo he would make little depressions under it and make caves. Well, one day while doing a WC, I pushed the wood out of place so I firmly squished it into the sand. I didn't see Leo for two days, and at first I thought kuhli loaches were very shy and he was hiding, but I literally could not find him. Then it hit me . After a shout of a word starting with F I rushed to my tank I pulled up the driftwood and out zipped Leo. He wasn't hurt, but he did seem to lose a little weight, as he was still a little baby. Now, I never ever touch my driftwood unless I know both loaches are out

Oh, and once I was putting in a new Amano shrimp and as I poured the bag into the net and put the net in the water, no shrimp. I literally panicked and searched my whole room, carpet, bucket, net, bag, until I saw that he somehow mysteriously jumped ship and rolled under the stand and got caught in a lint ball But he made it, so it was okay

 

[Dieses Madchen]

dear mother of god, what is that?

The tank was labeled "Blood parrots"

 

[Crossfire]

dear mother of god, what is that?

The tank was labeled "Blood parrots"

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I once saw a Silver Dollar at my Petsmart with a forehead like that

 

[Zyden]

I have my fry tank set up a few feet from my main tank. With lids off while doing a water change, the danio leapt from his house into the fry tank.

OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!

I managed to catch him and put him back in his tank, but not before he ate so much he was swollen. Poor fry.

Never ever again!

 

[Zyden]

((ignore multiple post glitchy connection!))

 

[Blubble37]

it happens.... sadly

 

[Lufbramatt]

Listened to a LFS

scariest one yet.. one which most (if not all) of us have encountered at some point

wouldn't always agree with this, was in a shop 2 weeks ago, overheard a phone call, customer obviously had a ill-looking gourami and wanted to buy some sort of medicine to "cure" it. LFS owner advised to check water stats to check for ammonia and nitrite and if there was any sign of readings to do a big water change and there wasn't much point buying anything at this point. Just the sort of advice I read on here all the time . . .

Needless to say, after not being able to find a single ill looking or dead fish in ANY of the tanks in said shop, I came home with 2 new fish

 

[snake007]

Well you seem to have a good lfs ^ .
We all just got to find the right one.

 

[Louiseness]

wouldn't always agree with this, was in a shop 2 weeks ago, overheard a phone call, customer obviously had a ill-looking gourami and wanted to buy some sort of medicine to "cure" it. LFS owner advised to check water stats to check for ammonia and nitrite and if there was any sign of readings to do a big water change and there wasn't much point buying anything at this point. Just the sort of advice I read on here all the time . . .

Needless to say, after not being able to find a single ill looking or dead fish in ANY of the tanks in said shop, I came home with 2 new fish

Assuming from your name you're in loughborough I'd be VERY interested to know which shop this is!

 

[Lufbramatt]

Sorry I'm not in Loughborough any more , graduated in 2006 but still use the same login name for all the forums I use . . . I've moved back home to Kent now. The shop was Abacus Aquatics in Sidcup, south east London area.

 

[Louiseness]

Sorry I'm not in Loughborough any more , graduated in 2006 but still use the same login name for all the forums I use . . . I've moved back home to Kent now. The shop was Abacus Aquatics in Sidcup, south east London area.

Thought that might be the case shame!

 

[Paradise3]

I've had my fair share of horror stories and near miss horror stories...
My most recent near miss was when I was cleaning my 6 Gallon Tank out...
I always keep my filter, heater and any plants/decor in a small bucket with tank water in and the plugs are kept wrapped in a towel to keep them dry in case any water spills from the bucket I use to carry water about. Well on this particular day we didn't have any towels downstairs so I went upstairs to get one to wrap my plugs in. Got downstairs and my mum said she'd moved the bucket out of her way and sorted the plugs out which I thought meant she'd found a towel... Nope! I went about cleaning my tanks and when I went to clean all the stuff in the old tank water that was in the bucket I thought "Hang on... I haven't had to pick up a Towel or any Plugs to move this bucket..." Checked and everything was there in the bucket... Including the plugs! I made sure they were dry and luckily they still worked... Even after 30 mins to an hour in water.

My most recent actual horror story was when I went to my LFS... Put simply, I don't go there any more. They had a lovely yellow VT Betta in the shrimp tank along with apple snails, Blue Lampeyes, Glowlights, Dwarf Frogs and... A Young OSCAR! Needless to say the Betta had ripped fins and the rest were being munched there and then. They had a perfectly suited tank for the oscar as a temporary home until he was bought but they had 2 5" CAE in it so they weren't going to risk their precious oscar who actually cost them less than the Betta to buy!