by me..... Oh man, ridiculous. So it was about that time of the month and decided to deep clean my fish tank. The timing couldn't have been better because I had just medicated my fish five days ago and was ready to remove any traces of it. I proceed to clean and re-setup my filters. I put the carbon and blue mesh back into the filters of an Emperor 400 and a Magnum canister. I bought the deluxe version of the Mangum so it came with the syphoning kit. Anyways, I empty everything from my tank to notice that one of my clown loaches are missing. I check around the tank and there was nothing. So the number one suspect is the Oscar because he has been a bad bad fish before.
I proceed to clean and attach the syphon to the filter and look up at the tank to make sure no fish were near the syphon. I turn my head for two seconds to flick the switch on for the filter and when I stand up my friend behind me yells "there's a fish is in the syphon." I rush to the filter and hit the off switch and thought he was fine. When I turned it off, he floated down into the filter and I scooped him out with my hand. Upon doing so, I noticed this weird gunk on him. I thought it was just fish #### so I put him back in the tank and he didn't move for a couple seconds. He sank to the bottom and then slowly his gills moved. I wondered what the hell was up with him. So I take a closer look at him and his intestines are hanging out of his gills. So I think to myself "Damnit, I am a foooooool! Those POS Marineland bastards should have incorporated some mesh to strain fish. And that's kinda gruesome. Poor fish."
I am hating the world at this moment, especially since it was my red-tailed black shark that I had bought when he was just 2cm long. When he died, he was 5cm long and I had only had him for a month. So I have a cigarette and blow it over, I proceed to clean my tank again with the syphon. I look at the tank to make sure there were no fish in the syphon and low and behold when I turn the switch on and jumped back up to the tank, what do I see? A large piece of dirt got into my filter. Or so I thought! To make sure I look into my filter and what do I find? My other black shark that I got when he was very small. Okay I know you aren't supposed to keep more than one red-tailed black shark per tank but the three I had swam and swam hand in hand all the time and got along perfectly. I am devasted for a moment and when I take him out of the filter his guts are everywhere.
Yummmmmy, okay so all my red-tailed black sharks are now dead thanks toe Murphy's Law, the other one was eaten by my Oscar about a month ago. I think I will get over it when I just buy one tomorrow to replace them. Hopefully I can find one of similar size, I don't think that's going to be too hard to do. Anyways, I just wanted to share my horrible cleaning experience today. Does anyone else have a bad story to share?
I proceed to clean and attach the syphon to the filter and look up at the tank to make sure no fish were near the syphon. I turn my head for two seconds to flick the switch on for the filter and when I stand up my friend behind me yells "there's a fish is in the syphon." I rush to the filter and hit the off switch and thought he was fine. When I turned it off, he floated down into the filter and I scooped him out with my hand. Upon doing so, I noticed this weird gunk on him. I thought it was just fish #### so I put him back in the tank and he didn't move for a couple seconds. He sank to the bottom and then slowly his gills moved. I wondered what the hell was up with him. So I take a closer look at him and his intestines are hanging out of his gills. So I think to myself "Damnit, I am a foooooool! Those POS Marineland bastards should have incorporated some mesh to strain fish. And that's kinda gruesome. Poor fish."
I am hating the world at this moment, especially since it was my red-tailed black shark that I had bought when he was just 2cm long. When he died, he was 5cm long and I had only had him for a month. So I have a cigarette and blow it over, I proceed to clean my tank again with the syphon. I look at the tank to make sure there were no fish in the syphon and low and behold when I turn the switch on and jumped back up to the tank, what do I see? A large piece of dirt got into my filter. Or so I thought! To make sure I look into my filter and what do I find? My other black shark that I got when he was very small. Okay I know you aren't supposed to keep more than one red-tailed black shark per tank but the three I had swam and swam hand in hand all the time and got along perfectly. I am devasted for a moment and when I take him out of the filter his guts are everywhere.
Yummmmmy, okay so all my red-tailed black sharks are now dead thanks toe Murphy's Law, the other one was eaten by my Oscar about a month ago. I think I will get over it when I just buy one tomorrow to replace them. Hopefully I can find one of similar size, I don't think that's going to be too hard to do. Anyways, I just wanted to share my horrible cleaning experience today. Does anyone else have a bad story to share?
