Lesson Learned :(

[The Taffy Apple]

Glad it's not just me then...!

Around christmas time i done a large water change and filter/substrate clean on my 30L tank. Anyway, took out all the artificial plants for a clean, done everything i needed to do and filled the tank back up. Went upstairs for an hour on the Xbox only to be disturbed by the mrs giving out a rather large #SHRIEK'... a WHOLE 45 minutes after the W/C one of my adult amano shrimp was wandering around in amongst the plates and cups on my sink sideboard! I popped him straight back in and he's been happy ever since!

Terry.

 

[the_lock_man]

We had a new sofa delivered the other day, so obviously, the night before, we moved the old one out out of the way.

When quickly vaccuuming that area of carpet, my wife found a largish object that wouldn't go into the cleaner. Turns out it was the amano shrimp that had gone missing months before - I can only assume it came out during a W/C.

Another time, I was feeling lazy when doing a W/C, and didn't bother to fit the syphon head on the tube, I thought I'd just use the tube. And then a zebra danio came zooming through and into the bucket. I netted her and put her straight back in the tank, she suffered no ill affects, and she's still with me, thankfully.

 

[roadmaster]

Once hung the python water changer in the tank and placed the glass top on to hold it down while water drained.Three of five small clown loaches decided to swim up the hose and they were quickly deposited out onto the lawn. I now place mesh over the end of the hose with rubberband.
Sadly, the loaches laid too long on the lawn before I discovered them.

 

[Athena]

My little mishap involved one of my African Dwarf frogs...

I was doing a bit of tank maintenance and decided to take out the large centrepiece ornament thing in there as I was bored of it and wanted a more natural look. So I lifted it up, looked underneath to check nothing was hiding there and put it into the spare washing up bowl that I use for tank cleaning.

Put the bowl in the bath so that I could give the ornament a good scrub before storing it away. Got interrupted by phone call...almost an hour later I went back to continue the job, lifted it up and got such a shock to see one of my ADFs lying there spreadeagle, completely motionless!

He must have been hiding up a hole! I thought he was dead as there was only a slight skim of water in the bowl that had dripped off the ornament. But thankfully he was alive and I quickly caught him and got him back in the tank asap.

Glad to say he was none the worse for his little adventure lol but it made me doubly careful since then!

Athena

 

[botiaboy]

My lesson learned is to put the fish food where the cat can't get into it.

amen xD my food all stays in the freezer or in the basket on the shelf next to my tank.

Biggest fish tak mishap was forgetting to unplug my glass heater durning a water change. BAM! I almost fried my fish but at least it sped up the water change- half of the water just evaporated out of the tank before we could remove the exploded heater xD

 

[Didge007]

Agreeing with the food, when I was little I had tank full of guppies (a tiny one) & was always lazy about doing the lid up on the flakes. One night the cat knocked it over & flakes were all over the carpet

I put my fish into bowls to a water change (first mistake as I did 100% change that thankfully didn't kill anyone but I know better now). I thought they'd be ok...I had two rosy barbs go flipping across my carpet & my pictus along my desk when I tried to catch him. Got spiked in the finger that hurt like crazy & then stupid me used a net & he got stuck in it. He's still happy as a pictus in a nice tank though - thankfully I know better then to use a net now.