Never have I ever...

[GlosGraham]

Ok. So I figured we should put our worst things up that we have done and if you are sat with a beer in hand you should drink (responsibly) if you have done the same thing....

My worst... Accidentally killed a Cory with a gravel vac.

Pushed it into the gravel behind the air stone and stopped as a peppered Cory swam under. It was still alive but wouldn't stay upright. I had hoped it would recover but alas no such luck.

 

[Utar]

I accdentally killed one of my danioes doing a water change. I didn't notice he had somehow gotten caught in the vacuum sucked out of the tank and ended up in the bucket. I wasn't until I went out side and pored the water out of the bucket that I saw him. Poor thing flopped around on the ground, so I picked him up putting him back in the tank, but he didn't survive dying that night. I guess the shock was to much for him, or he was injured.

 

[FishFinatic77]

I may have accidentally sucked up a baby guppy once. I'm still not quite sure if I did, or if she just died and the body was eaten before I found it. Anyway, I did a water change and the next day I couldn't find her anywhere in the tank.

 

[itiwhetu]

I killed 2000 neon's in quarantine by getting the meds wrong. I have also broken a 250 liter tank by trying to squeeze to big a piece of drift wood into it and the front popped out.

 

[Essjay]

Killed a male agassizzi's apisto during a water change - he was sucked up and seriously injured in the siphon tube. I had to stop removing water and get out the clove oil he was so bad



Sliced my hand on a reflector and had to stop in the middle of a water change to clean it and put a plaster on, then continued the water change to remove my blood from the water.

Emptied the old water then used a stanley knife to remove the dead suckers from the filter bracket and seriously damaged my finger - and finished the water change one handed which took forever (and resulted in a trip to urgent care and course of antibiotics next day)

 

[Fishmanic]

Put 2 Bala sharks in a 35 gallon tall hex tank. In a year or two when they grew very large, they decided there was more room outside the tank and they knocked off the cover and landed on the floor. I found them dead a few hours later. They won't do that again ............ Live and learn.

 

[CassCats]

Poured a refill bucket into a tank that i forgot to take the lid off.

Water did not go in the tank.

 

[FFGuest6357]

Poured a refill bucket into a tank that i forgot to take the lid off.

Water did not go in the tank.

that’s sounds like something I would do! Haha, I won’t now though, knock on wood.

My turn... unclamped my canister before depressurizing the in/out hoses.

first and only time I make that mistake... good time to plug the always have multiple towels on hand piece of advice...

 

[Callisto405]

Didn't check the temperature of my water before doing a water change and shocked the entire tank. It was like fish Armageddon. Fish were running into the walls, darting and trying to jump out. I remember one fish took a nose dive and tried to literally burrow through the bottom of the tank. This was a White skirted tetra. It was crazy to say the least. Oddly enough the white Tetra lived

 

[FFGuest6357]

Didn't check the temperature of my water before doing a water change and shocked the entire tank. It was like fish Armageddon. Fish were running into the walls, darting and trying to jump out. I remember one fish took a nose dive and tried to literally burrow through the bottom of the tank. This was a White skirted tetra. It was crazy to say the least. Oddly enough the white Tetra lived

Yea that’s a tough one I did way back in the day.

I am very consistent in checking my source water parameters, so temperature is my biggest concern during water changes.

but I’ll take a drink to that one.

 

[Herpin Man]

When I was a kid, we had a den, and in the corner was a stand with my two aquariums on it.
I also had a skateboard, it was winter, and the den was the only room in the house with a smooth floor.
I don't really need to go into any more detail, do I?

 

[CassCats]

Zapped myself silly from dropping a light into the tank during water changes.

 

[AilyNC]

Setting up my tank with zero research and going with store advice. We that meant my fish in cycle crash killed 2 angel fish, 1 black molly, 1 betta, 2 neon tetra, 2 platy. Pretty from intro fish keeping.

 

[FFGuest6357]

Zapped myself silly from dropping a light into the tank during water changes.

I hate that.

I haven’t done it from aquarium related activities, but I know the exact feeling.

it sucks every time.

 

[DaisyDee]

I once killed an entire tank of tiger barbs by forgetting I lived in a place that has cold water. We moved house and my brain somehow went *ping* and forgot it was fall/winter and that the tap water would be freezing. Shocked them all dead.