Worst experience?

[Billy Bob]

Hi every one whats everyones worst ever experience during their time as a fish keeper?

Mine had to be when setting up my 20g:  everytime i got to the end of fishless cylcing the tank clouded up!!!  Well annoying after the third time!  Anyway only been in the job for a few months so wondering what u veterans have got to say on worst experinces!!!!!!!!!!*celebratesmiley*

p.s finally got the tank sorted almost fully stocked now and ive started up a 55g!!!!!!!!!!

 

[catfishmike]

4 fish dying in a weeks time 3 ottos and a panda cory

 

[colesea]

working in a chain pet store.
~~Colesea

 

[aspguru]

My cycle on my 55 gallon tank. You know I hate ammonia. Help me article. You have probably read it. Everyone has. Cycling my tank has been the worst experience ever. Especially since my LFS, Pet Supplies Plus, told me it was ok to add my fish after 2 weeks!!! And that my filter was ok with no bio wheel or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn them.

 

[ronrca]

Experiecing a mysterious disease where your fish are slowly dying one by one. In my 90G, had 13 rasboras (down to 3), 12 cardinals (down to 10), 4 dwarf rainbows (down to 1), 8 discus (down to 5), 2 sae (1 commited suicide, water must be cleaner on other side of glass). Disease was almost gone for 3 weeks and another one dead. Cant treat tank because of real plants.

btw, my german blue ram has zittes. Round white look-like-zittes on the front of his forehead. Has got me baffled. I look in books, internet, cant find anything about it. After a couple of days, they 'pop' and go away. He's a little old for puberty. He's around 1.5 years old.  ??? ??? ??? ???

 

[colesea]

Hmm, don't know what the zitts are, but mysterious death, if the fish look like they might be wasting away even though they are eating, is most likely TB. TB sucks and is near impossible to treat, and you can catch it too, so I hope you're current on your vaccinations.
~~Colesea

 

[aznpanther98]

my worst time was when i was around 15 and my dad thouht it would be nice to add a 4" crayfish he got some from the seafood warf and dropped one in next day found three of what left of my fishes floatin and crayfish sittin there waitin for another fish to swim by oh well i had his lil friends for dinner that nite *celebratesmiley*

 

[Billy Bob]

Some of these are really bad!  U must of been gutted!!!!!!!

 

[Backdraft Bagel]

Before I knew better, I trusted the guy at Petco when he said "Sure, Blue Botia loaches are great community fish and won't mess with your hatchets, gourami's or tetras"

When I woke up, only one was left. I had like 30. They killed them all overnight! Lame. That was quite a while ago. It was also the last time I bought a fish on impulse/whimsey. Now I plan my selection out a bit better ... it's helped a lot.

 

[ronrca]

Colesea,
TB- what are the symptons? They look healthy even the ram. I even have a lone discus that has not been effected by the disease.

 

[equinom]

Worst?  I've got a lot to pick from...


*  Finding my favorite betta flopping around on the counter..  (successfully got him back in the water - he was fine)

*  Finding the crayfish with his claws in a half eaten blue     gourami  
(clipped those little suckers right off)

*  Discovering the tiger barbs terrorize a fancy tailed guppy
to the point that they shredded him before I could get the net.
(got more TB's - the X-ringleader is now at the bottom of       the pecking order  *thumbsupsmiley*)

*  and algae.  That's got to be up there, too.

Now I have to go and create a thread about the greatest things people have experienced.  Got to keep it positive!

 

[Troy-N-Eli]

Worst experience...you want the whole list or the top 10?
1.  Dwarf puffers are very carnivorous.
2.  Tap water at our house has a pH that goes up over 8 after cycling for 2 days.
3.  Bala sharks can jump really high through tight spaces.
4.  Not all mollies are peaceful.
5.  Painted glass fish should not be purchased since they are artificially colored.
6.  Iritated glass fish will try to eat neons.
7.  Not all synodontis are peaceful and will eat neons when big enough.
8.  Not all fish store employees are as knowledgeable as they make themselves out to be.
9.  Wal-Mart fish are the devil and 1 can decimate an entire aquarium w/ disease.
10. Bettas don't like their reflections on mirrored aquarium backgrounds.

We can think of more if you like, but we think you get the picture.

 

[keprydak]

I'll have to say this is pretty recent. I saw my school of 11 harlequin rasboras all succumb to septicemia (despite water changes & medicine) and be reduced down to 3 in a matter of 1 week... I have never had so many fish deaths - or any deaths period before in my 1 1/2 years...

 

[ronrca]

septicemia? Whats that? Maybe that is what is happening in my tank too. 13 Rasboras, 3 left!  :'(

 

[nonamethefish]

When three corys mysteriously died......if the fish get isck and you do what you can, you get the credit for helping it, but this oine decides it would be funny to die on me.

 

[Nativefish Boy]

Having a 45 gallon tall, ( 36x24x12 ) pop a seal about 4 inches off the bottom and being at school all day. I though it was a April fools joke when my mom told me this.

 

[fishboy]

In my five years of fishkeeping...............Uhhhhhhhhhhhh................................ having a ten gallon aquarium leak at 3 in the morning and having to set up an entire new tank to put the other fish in  Hmmmmmmm.......others are having my severum die from someone bumping the cheap heater i bought and causing a big temp change killing my fish, having all my cories die from a unknown cause and last but not least having a giant algae bloom in like all my tanks at the same time.

 

[caveman]

Worst experience.  I have a 30 gallon tank.  I have some mickey mouse platies.  They reproduce.  I am stoked that the circle of life is happening in my bedroom so I set up a nice ten gallon for the nine fry I could scoop out.  They live in that tank for five months, and almost are full grown. I go home, (I am a college kid) for a weekend and my heater breaks while I am away. I come home to nine dead platies. :'(
I have never tried to breed fish again, I just can't be trusted.
Caveman.

 

[VooDooFishy]

While cleaning the large Violitan lionfish display tank at the shop, I got stung 3 times by a very large lion. Had to stay in the hospital 2 days but it was my fault, still sucked though :

 

[Atlantic Fish]

i was swiching over tanks once, i syphoned off the water into the new tank, so that i wouldnt need to cycle, i must have knocked the temp dial on the heater, transfered my 8" jewel cichlid and a pair of 7" breeding severums. later on maybe an hour, all were floating and the water was boiling hot, man was i ever pissed off. you coulnd even look at me for a week or i would chew someones head off... :-/