Chuckmeister Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Everyone has had a horror story or 2.Mine was looking after someones tropheus. Everything was fine but at some stage the filter stopped working in the middle of summer. Being a tropheus tank it was overstocked. Anyway came home from work to find 2/3 of the colony cactus and the rest looking borderline terminal. What a disaster that day was. Managed to save the other 1/3 after some manic water changes, lots of swearing and preying to the fish gods that they never kick me in the knackers like that ever again lolso spill your guts...you'll feel better you did lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbunamad Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 @Chucky lmao I like your "Aussie" description of eventsIt is good to see someone on this forum with a sense of humour and you also have serious input.Keep mixing it up!!This is a pic of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Chuck I had a heavily stocked tank split and drain the whole tank in 5 minutes. Luckily one of the kids heard water running and went to investigate. Netting, placing of buckets to save some tank water, portable air pumps meant that I lost only one fish but then had to rehome and sell a display tank that was years in the making. Had a support beam of a timber rack collapse that caused two tanks to crack and the. Then had to pull apart 14 tanks, shuffle fish and then rebuild the rack in steel and setup the system again. Luckily I haven't had a major fish death situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LexyBoi Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 In my 4 years I have had 3 filters break 2 air pumps 2 heaters and an ammonia spike lost a $3 guppy that's it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myster619 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I once had my tank haunted by this invisible rambunctious omnipotent fish I call the phantom cichlid. My mbunas kept disappearing day by day until there was only one left. To this day, I still get the chills thinking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanke Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 well I had a show tank of discus back in the U.S. 8 of them in a 6ftand one day my son (at the time was only 4yr. old) wanted to feed the fishbecause he said they look like they wanted some of his cookies so heput a pack of oreo in the tank I was at work at the time I came home andfound the hold tank dead all 8 discus they was about 6inch round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intangcity Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 ive been quite lucky with only diseases being ich.or gill fluke with red forest jewels.since learning very quickly on particular matters never had a disease since although i take time to make sure i dont get anything as with tanks and racks never had an issue and ive built some strong stands at home from old timber too holding 5-2-2 tanks.latest upset was an internal filter seizing when i was at work i didnt find out till i got home due to me having only access to the room cant trust the kids so my locks stay high on the door,a week later i wake up on a sunday morning to find the other internal filter had burnt the power outlet it was connected to but the other four items plugged in still worked.left a little mess of molten plastic on the tank lid but otherwise all gd could of been a disaster of fire.im never buying those chinese adapter plugs or filters again.worst luck would be trying to sell fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yabbie Dabbie Do Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Lost around 300 3-4cm albino BN fry due to jager heater malfunctioning and boiling them all. Wasn't happy that day as they were ready to sell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbunamad Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 In my early days of fish keeping I bought 15 x 3 cm Tropheus Ikola.I fed them religiously daily with NLS.After a couple of weeks they had freakin bloat, and eventually I lost the lot even after medicating them.I was depressed coz they didn't come cheap but never ever kept Tropheus after that.Spose if I tried again today because I have more experience I might succeed. I also have bloat and medication hasn't helped me!http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq283/mbunamad/fat_zpsdry80myb.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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