Your Fishkeeping

[cane76]

its probably been done before but who cares i will start with a one of my nooby mistakes and if you want you can add yours
when i first got my 100g tank about a year ago i was doing my first water change and all was going well until i smelt a burning smell i hadnt turned off the heater and it was melting the filter housing i bet this one is quite common but i have a few more

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I've done the heater one a few times. My other mishaps include forgetting to close the valves off on the external filters before taking the head off, resulting in wet feet and a wet floor!

 

[helsekia]

Ive done that as well!!!forgetting to shut the valve off!!!very wet as a result

 

[catxx]

I nearly killed my first betta (bruce) when i put him in his new tank, before i knew what cycling was, i learnt that one pretty quick! he looked so sad and his fins went all clamped up but he's still with me now.

 

[jarcher1390]

my mistakes have been when changing the water in my tank ive not checked the tap water for ph or anything then when i put it in the water quality changed quite radiply and 5 fish died over night. Iv had other problems but i dont know what they have been

 

[cane76]

another one of my classics is spreading ich to all 3 of my tanks with a feeding net oops

 

[Behemoth]

when i had my first 5 gallon, i usually put a cup at the bottom while i fill up the tank so it doesn't knock everything around, and i took the wrong cup and the cup i used had some milk in it and all the water was cloudy. that was when my dad siad where did my milk go!

 

[laurasmithuk]

i used to have a tank that had black moors in.

one day i was syphoning out tank with hose when i sucked his eyes off. my dad had to kill him after that.

i was devastated! this was about 5 years ago now and ive never forgiven myself

 

[RandomWiktor]

I melted part of my floor with a heater once; took it out to clean, which was all fine and dandy, but forgot to turn it off!

 

[donna123]

hi,
when i was a nooby i was treating for ich when i noticed my fish had fungus also,
( this was before i joined tff) i did not do a full 30% water change between treatments,
i woke up to find all fish gasping , i didnt lose a single fish because my friend who has had trops told me what id done ) .

 

[Shuggieboy]

Well how about this then?! I had a 4ft planted tank, had ltos of expensive fish in it, came home from work one day and was eating my dinner, my mother said to me "there is water in my living room floor, i dont know where it came from" I didnt know where it had came from either. Later that night i went upstairs to find that the tank had came apart at the silicon on one of the corners and water was spurting out all over the floor, seeping through the floor and into my mum's living room beneath! i was gutted, had to drain the remaining water out and ship the fish round to my mates tank. Anyways, as you can imagine i was on thin ice with my mum regarding my fish keeping and I didnt have a tank for a while. A few weeks later my mum went away on holiday, i was up my attic like a flash, pulled my wee 2ft tank down and rigged it up, been going for about 3 months now, lovin it.

 

[Jules H-T]

I've had a 3ft tank spring a leak and dump half it's water over the floor before I got home from work. Thank God it was laminate flooring and a few towels soaked it up.

 

[catxx]

wasn't my disaster, but my bf's uncle had his tropical tank (about 30-50 gallon) spring a leak, while he was on holiday. came home to find the tank empty, all the fish dead (some over 15 years old) and the floor and ceiling below ruined. on top of that the water tank in the loft had over flowed on the otherside of the house and ruined the walls and the ceiling there too. not a good day!

 

[hairyhaggler]

ages ago when i first had a small tank I was doing a water change and complete clean up etc , i really didnt know what i was doing then , (not that i do now ... ) but i took the fish out ( silver tip tetras i think they were called) and put them into a bowl. I cleaned then tank and went to put the fish back in , i found 2 missing...??? i looked for them and found they had jumped out of the bowl and onto the floor behind my cabinate . They were both covered in dust and fluff , poor little buggers.
I popped em into the bowl and they cleaned off swam about and i put them back into the tank where they swam about and survived there ordeal. (very suprised i was)


unfortunatly a few months later most of my fish had died and i got rid of the others to a mate and emptied the tank and put it away.

Now i am back up and running with a bigger tank , a bit more knowledge and hopefully this will never happen again..



hairyhaggler