Half A Can Of Flake Food Got Dumped Into My Tank.

[HeatherW]

When I was young and still living at home I had younger brothers who were not in school yet.
They were probably 3 and 4.

I came home from school to find all my fish dead in the 10 gallon, dark brown water, and all the tea bags in the house in there.

Heather

 

[Native American]

The amount of caffeine had to be incredible.

No doubt, since you do not live in the southern U.S., it wasn't sweet tea, either.

v/r, N-A

 

[Kopix Nation]

I have done that before..... It is annoying cleaning out all the food..... Hope you got it all out!

claire

 

[xanthianacid]

mmmmm...

I have four children, 6, 4, 3 and 6 months.
The harrowing times my hubby and I have had with them and fishkeeping!

When we were super novices - the morning after we got our first ever community tank in fact, my 4 yo whom we brought the tank for in the first place who was three then, now is (EDIT: almost) five dumped a whole 500 gram pack of dry food into the tank!!! So not only did the poor buggers have stress from being moved into a new house the night before, they also had to deal with that. Luckily we did have a vac, we gave them a 100% water change and they all survived. AMAZING. Then he did it again about two months later the morning after my hubby had brought a tank for his own birthday. We weren't so lucky that time, there were several casulties.

He must be somewhat of a 'natural' fish keeper though, because hes the only person I know who can catch fish by hand. He's done so a few times and moved them into different tanks. No casulties there just WTF! until we realised what he was doing and that he was simply capable of it. Before that it was a bit of a mystery.

I've told this one before too.. my 6yo who at the time was 5, was playing with my female betta (my favourite), she was aclimatising in a cup ready for a small community. The female betta did a betta thing and flipped out flopped onto the desk, onto the floor and was behind my hubby's tower. She came in and told us straight away, thankfully, but we couldn't find her for ages, the betta had actually flipped herself across the room and was against the wall where she was saved. She survived!!! YAY! but AGGGHHHH!!!!

We have since learnt and now our tanks are either out of reach or locked up. It's all in the learning process.

Cheers, Xanthia

 

[juliehainsworth]

Hmmm it does sound like children and fish don't mix! I've been lucky my 5 year old niece has only managed to drop a small amount of chicken in the tank from her sarnies whilst feeding the fish! The fish devoured it like there was no tomorrow! Luckily all fish are still alive!

You have put me off ever having kids! Thanks for that

 

[Native American]

I'd always put off having kids, figuring they were too much trouble. Now, I wish I'd had them sooner...a lot sooner.

v/r, N-A

 

[juliehainsworth]

Hmmmm I'm two minds about having kids........... Think I might leave it until I'm nearer 27 (only two years to go) Its kind of a scary thought really I think I prefer animals at least they dont answer back as much!

Must admit kids and pets make great combinations! Certainly keep us entertained for the rest of our lives! I'm gonna stick with fish and a dog for now though and babysitting at least I can hand the child back after and not need to worry about it

 

[BettaUK]

Reminds me of a story my dad told me, about his cousin taking his fish for a ride on his bike

When my dad was a teenager, he had a community aquarium. He came home one day to find a few of his fish dead on the carpet.. turns out his cousin had taken the fish out of the tank, dropped a few in the process but had taken most of them for a ride on his bike in the basket on the front

Sounds funny now, but dad said he was so upset when it happended as I can guess anyone would be!

 

[trace1]

I'd always put off having kids, figuring they were too much trouble. Now, I wish I'd had them sooner...a lot sooner.

v/r, N-A

theres definatly a plus point to having kids early, my eldest is nearly 16 so in another 2 years i will be able to go clubbing with her & i'm still only 33 atm. youngest is 8 now so getting there. all 5 of them are good with all the fish & the dog

 

[Native American]

I'd always put off having kids, figuring they were too much trouble. Now, I wish I'd had them sooner...a lot sooner.

v/r, N-A

theres definatly a plus point to having kids early, my eldest is nearly 16 so in another 2 years i will be able to go clubbing with her & i'm still only 33 atm. youngest is 8 now so getting there. all 5 of them are good with all the fish & the dog

I just did the math...wow, that's an enormous amount of responsibility displayed by someone given such an enormous task at that age.

Bravo!

v/r, N-A

 

[juliehainsworth]

Ok so after reading this about kids yesterday it made me think about waiting a bit longer, after all I want to enjoy my fish first lol. My partner picked me up from work as usual and we both went home! I spent a few minutes talking to my family before heading up to my room to feed the fish, only to find out that my partner had decided to feed them for me (never again)! Get up to the tank and there is a lovely fine film all along the top, he had only fed them the freeze dried tubifex but instead of just breaking it up into junks he turns it into the really fine powder which he sees me do to my fry in the nursery, but in the nursery tank I go and find pretty large chunks of the stuff floating about!

And I thought kids were bad enough! Oh well at least his heart was in the right place just wish he'd have stuck to feeding them flake!

I think this post was jinxed or something as he has never been tempted to feed the fish before