Ambitious Fish

[martyn21uk]

Okay so I got home last night and all was good with my tank, I fed them all and managed to keep our 7 week old puppy away from trying to swim with them! Then after a while I noticed one of my cory's sitting on the bridge ornament moving very slowly. At first I thought he was nuzzling away at it, like they all enjoy doing. But after a while of him still in the same spot I decided maybe I should get my lazy bum up and check what he was doing. The bridge has lots of small holes through it, far too small for a cory and far too big for my harlequins or cardinals, but my baby cory decided he could get himself through the hole and subsequently had got himself wedged solid halfway through (I knew he'd just eaten too much! ) After a small amount of time, I knew it was time for human intervention and decided that he wouldn't make it through by pushing him forwards and that pushing his head back was not going to be the nicest experience in the world, so i got hold of the back half of his body. After he realised I was trying to help rather than eat him, he relaxed and between us, managed to escape. It seems as though there is no lasting damage and after a while he looked like he's settled back in with the others. I don't want to take the bridge out because once grown, he'll never try that again and the other fish love playing with it so much. But this lead me to thinking everybody must have stories, much better than that one, of stupid, ambitious things their fish have tried? So whats yours?

 

[DevUK]

I had a zebra danio get stuck in one of those plastic plant pots In my n00b stupidity I'd left a plant in a pot which had some slat, and then the plant had been "liberated" from the pot by my fancy goldfish. Found one of my danios wedged in stuck! Managed to free it, and to this day his pattern is a bit messed up around his mid section. Has been more or less fine since (though used to swim at a little bit of an angle).

 

[kribensis12]

About 2 years ago, i bout some type of catfish( i think brislenosw) and it dissapperead, last year, i was looking at the tank, and i saw somthing moving inside a shell. So i take the shell out to realize that it was a stuck catfish!!!!!! I tried getting it out but it wouldnt budge, so i took a hammer and cracked the shell, but i accidently craked the fishes head too. I dont know exactly how that fish lasted 1 year stuck in that seashell.

 

[DevUK]

A pair of pliers might of been easier, you could of snapped off small bits at a time.

Fish are too curious for their own good sometimes!

 

[Zanziba]

And I thought curiosity only killed cats, well curiosity and hammers apparently...

 

[kribensis12]

lol. I didnt have pliers on hand, my little bro was using them at my grandma's.

 

[DevUK]

lol. I didnt have pliers on hand, my little bro was using them at my grandma's.

My imagination went off on a strange tangent then...

 

[martyn21uk]

So hang on, let me get this straight. Your Grandma was swimming around in a massive tank, or maybe a pond and she got wedged between a plant and it's pot. So you sent your brother round to sort it. He was about to take the hammer with him, but you said "no, take these pliers instead" as they would be much more effective at pulling grandma out. Her hair was a bit messed up and she walks at a bit of an angle, but she seems to be doing alright.

Is that it?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

pmsl, you guys are too funny

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

i remember my first tank, ohh man it was a dreadful state lol! bright coloured gravel, stupidly florescent ornaments etc and lots of dangerous places for fish to get stuck. like for instance there was this little gap between one side of the tank and a huge glass jar. i didn't really think about fish getting stuck between the two but funnily enough, thats exactly what happened.
my black moor at the time got itself wedged in there somehow (looked as though she was trying to get some food that had fallen down there).
she was stuck there for some time and my loving fancy goldfish bless him (the two were a pair and had lots n lots of fry) seemed to be trying to help her.
both fish were in stress by the time i'd got there and all i had to do was remove the jar. doing this, i saw the right hand side of the moor all battered up and her gorgeous black scales had silver scratches all over them.
i looked at the fish for a while to see if she would be fine and she seemed to have pinkdolphin_113 scratched into the right hand side of her mid body. i laughed, showed my mum and thats where i got the username of pinkdolphin_113
fortunatly, the scratches did disappear after a while

 

[screamingdonkey]

lol. I didnt have pliers on hand, my little bro was using them at my grandma's.

My imagination went off on a strange tangent then...

Same here.... I imagined him going round to do some DIY dentistry!!!!
But then I read Martyn21UK's post and all has become crystal clear now!!!!!

Incidentally, I noticed one of my peppered corys has a cut (or graze) just below it's dorsal fin - at first I thought it was probably a decor-related injury.... but now I'm assuming that as my grandparents were visting recently, it was possibly grandma up to her usual tricks

 

[kribensis12]

i remember my first tank, ohh man it was a dreadful state lol! bright coloured gravel, stupidly florescent ornaments etc and lots of dangerous places for fish to get stuck. like for instance there was this little gap between one side of the tank and a huge glass jar. i didn't really think about fish getting stuck between the two but funnily enough, thats exactly what happened.
my black moor at the time got itself wedged in there somehow (looked as though she was trying to get some food that had fallen down there).
she was stuck there for some time and my loving fancy goldfish bless him (the two were a pair and had lots n lots of fry) seemed to be trying to help her.
both fish were in stress by the time i'd got there and all i had to do was remove the jar. doing this, i saw the right hand side of the moor all battered up and her gorgeous black scales had silver scratches all over them.
i looked at the fish for a while to see if she would be fine and she seemed to have pinkdolphin_113 scratched into the right hand side of her mid body. i laughed, showed my mum and thats where i got the username of pinkdolphin_113
fortunatly, the scratches did disappear after a while

kwelness

 

[dcfeeiv]

i had a betta that realllllly loved to swim into the filter flow
one day he swam into the bottom of the filter and couldnt figure out how to get back out
he wasnt the brightest betta ive ever had....

 

[toppman]

she seemed to have pinkdolphin_113 scratched into the right hand side of her mid body. i laughed, showed my mum and thats where i got the username of pinkdolphin_113

reminds me of the story of the person that won the lottery by picking numbers that appeared on their goldfish