Fishkeeping injuries! Who has suffered....

[The-Wolf]

Last week when reaching for the food pot ontop of the tank
I caught my arm on the corner of the lid, resulting in this.....

a nice 5cm scratch that should leave a good scar

(Note it is difficult to photograph the inside of your own forearm.)

 

[RandomWiktor]

Oh, I've been hurt a few times - mostly my own stupidity. Ok, entirely my own stupidity.
- Bitten many times over by bettas, not that they do much damage.
- Burned with heaters and hot lightbulbs
- Slipped on water during water changes and wound up pretty badly bruised
- Stepped on unplugged electic chord, cutting foot nicely open.
But the best would have to be the time I was carrying a filled 5 gallon tank (no fish in it) to empty out, and managed to dislocate my knee. I have a bad ankle that buckles on my every now and again, and of course, it happened while carrying the tank. I didn't want to drop the tank and break it, so I opted to take the fall with my knees. Needless to say, I ended up with a dislocated kneecap, and a very sore, brusied, but in-place knee on the other leg.
)
I'm such an embarassment to myself.

Oh, and let's not forget the time I got a horrendous stomach virus after I got a good mouthful of siphon water from my sick tank. I was afraid I was going to get Dropsy!

 

[SirMinion]

Apart from the usual occasional 230 volt electrocutions that anyone who puts water and electricity together can expect if:

• ripped open my forearm on the sharp corner of an old tank- required four stitches
• stabbed in the thumb by the cheek spurs of our huge starlight ancistrus (bled like crazy)
• dropped a large rock on my foot, fracturing a bone
• Got down on my knees to start cleaning out a filter under a tank resulting in a tear to the cartilage meniscus in one knee. The knee locked and I had to go to hospital for keyhole surgery to have the knee 'resurfaced'

 

[Adistar]

Well nothing has happened to me, but i was helping a friend move a tank and it slipped, and a 75 gallon tank landed on both his feet, and broke bones in both.. and the glass cracked when it fell.

 

[jflowers]

Not me, but a student at my college, who [EDIT: Now] has an email that begins with "tankbuster", fell down the stairs while moving house. At the bottom of the stairs was his fish tank. He landed on it. The impact cut him from between the third finger, up through the forearm to the elbow. he has been off work for well over 6 months, had skin grafts and lots more surgery to help him return to work. He has done well at college though hehe.

Jon

 

[rdd1952]

Haven't been injured by a fish yet but did cut my hand pretty bad trying to slide one of those flexible hinges over the edge of the glass cover. The edges of the glass are rather sharp!!! DUH!!!

 

[Fish_Mike]

I've been electroctued by water by placing a portion of the heater's cable (Accidently!)into the water. And whenever i do a water change, i always find random cuts on my hands. Freaky.

 

[Mickslack]

Just wondering if anyone has picked up an injury of any kind directly caused by their hobby!

I'm particularly interested in whether anyone has been bitten by the apple of their eye, some treasured fish!

(this was sorta inspired by the shark special on tv here in the uk and my thinking how COOL it would be to be able to construct a huge tank somewhere for the closest practical relatives of Rays and Dogfish! - Course in TOTAL fantasy land how amazing it would be to keep a small shark and be able to watch it cruising around like that in your own back yard...! )

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i got a bristle nose stuck in the webing between my thumb and finger while trying to clean it's nest unaware it had eggs in it (no serious injury just a bit of blood and a sore hand!

 

[smooth_bourbon]

I love it I just got such a lecture about being a clutz and an airhead. I have done the melting things with the heater I forgot to turn off, lots of cuts, bumps and gallons of water dumped inside my dresser, and down onto my electric strip which I grabbed onto and got shocked. I am just so glad I am not the only one.

I have also been bitten by a GSP which actually made pinprick holes in my finger which blead when I poked at it a bunch.

 

[Vivid-Dawn]

I haven't been bitten by a fish (yet). And so far, I've been too lazy to unplug things... but if everybody's getting zapped, maybe I'll start doing that before anything else on maintenance days! LOL Besides, I've heard it's good to turn off your heater anyway, so if the new water isn't quite the same temperature, it won't break the heater... which I've done a couple times (and killed my neons, because the cracked heater made the temp. go UP to 90F!)

 

[mattbeau]

I was doing a 50% water change in my 6 gallon (my first DP died) and didnt unplug the heater, well it fractured slightly but was still on and not noticable as I filled up the tank with water I started adjusting the ornaments and got a real nice shock so I quickly unpluged it and well of course pulled it out and burned myself.

my fisha are wimps so no fish attacks.

 

[Malkavian]

So far my fishkeeping experiences have been fairly benign


Now, if you wanna talk about snake and lizard related injuries (from pets at home) or bird related (from when i worked at a petstore) then have i got some stories for you...

 

[Synirr]

Wow, some of you guys have really suffered for your hobby!

Um... my oscar nipped my finger once when I was hand-feeding him a pellet. He caught me on the cuticle and gave me what looked like a small papercut. It didn't bleed or anything, but it huuuurt *pouts like a child with a scraped knee*

 

[Allix]

We have a 5 gal tank, the fish in it died so i decided id had enough and was going to get rid of it so i took all the water out of the tank bar a little bit in the bottom

The heater was still plugged in i went to empty the bucket of water down the drain, came back and picked up the heater ... OUCH then i dropped it in the water left in the tank and it shattered everywhere

My boyfriend was not impressed

 

[Paul_MTS]

lol CFC sounds like fun!

right urm...

my moray had a go at my lil finger once, was still young so didn't bleed

my arowana has grabbed my finger a few times when feeding.

my oscar has made my finger bleed before.

several times at work and home my doras have wrapped there tails aorund a finger, at work there only small so it's qute cute but my ones aint so cute!

i punched a hole in my wall when i got annoyed with a filter that wouldn't start resulting in some bloody knuckles.

and many times at work i'ved cut my hands and arms along a sharp tank top, you learn which ones have it though.

not really too fishy but at work i was carrying a 5ft tank out to customers van and it was quite windy. we had stopped moving whilst they opened the van door which they just let swing open with great force and just missed taken my head off.