Natural Disasters

[PokeSephiroth]

Hmm, that's a good question...
Well, I'd certainly wouldn't like losing my fish, but it'd be really hard to keep them alive if a natural disaster like a flood were to happen... even if you're living by yourself, keeping your fish alive would be HARD...

if it were a flood...well, they have a slim chance of living... then again, there was a flood here (in the philippines) a while back, and there was an aquarium that had a bunch of sucker fish (pleco's if I'm not mistaken) that somehow found their way to a river... long story short, they've become overpopulated, and are now causing distruction to many things. ehh hehehe...

 

[dwarfgourami]

Since I don't keep bettas, my reasoning would be that any of my fish would stand a much better chance staying where they were rather than joining me in the queue of refugees. How on earth could they survive if I took them with me?

 

[SamUK]

if it ever flooded here my big tank should be ok.

nice solid metal stand and i dont think it would float anywhere.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

depends how much warning I had, if we had a few days and knew it was gonna be bad, I'd try and move my big tank (out of preference, the rest if I could) somewhere out of harms way so I could keep my Oscar alive. But if it was like last minute get out of the house, I'd get the cats in the car and we'd be off. Ian and the cats would come before the fish definately.

 

[SamUK]

ian? really?

 

[Arfie]

I'd leave them to it.

In a disaster the most precious commodity is usually fresh water, now even if you could take your fish with you, there is unlikely to be electricity, so you couldn't maintain a filter, meaning they'd need water changes to dilute the toxins. Could you justify using fresh water to keep your fish alive, when it is needed to keep people alive

Fortunatley, a natural disaster is unlikely where I live too. No forests near enough to burn me up in a fire, no rivers or lakes nearby, well there are but they are so far below me it's irrelevant, we don't get hurricanes, we do occasionally get small tornados and earthquakes in England, but are small and rarely cause much damage and the topography of this area means tornado's are unlikely for me and as I live about 80 miles from any coasts (in the peak district) Tsunamis are not an issue. Gotta love England

Arfie

 

[Chris_Wood]

If an area did flood would the fish mind?

Why swim in a tank when the whole house is full of water !

Seriously..... ....after many floods peaple still find their gold fish and Koi in the pond, which says something about fish being terratorial!

I also live in the UK, so not much chance of a natural disaster... ...this is actually why the UK is still quite a rich and powerful nation... ....political, geographical and financial stability!

CW

 

[Miss Wiggle]

ian? really?

yeah definately, he's 6'4 he could carry me above the level of the flood

 

[Spader]

With global warming becoming an ever-advancing threat towards all of us, keeping fish as a hobby may not be possible in a hundred years.

omg not this again. lets not get it closed lol

 

[heather]

i would grab my big oscar out the tank give him a big kiss on his porky lips then put him back and leave him some blood worm to suck on ,,, and then hope for the best ,,

 

[PlecMama]

We'd leave them too, though I'd like to take at least Kathernine and Spencer, but they'd probably be safer here, plus we have Dylan and Sasha to evacuate first.

In an earth quake we might lose the 6ft because I would imagine it is the most vulnerable since it's large and probably not very flexible. In a massive "forest" fire (no forests much round here) speed is of the essence so we'd just leave with the mammals, in a tornado/hurricane, we'd probably be to late knowing about it to evacuate anyway, in a flood I think the fish would be relatively ok provided the water currents weren't to strong, I think I'd just pop a couple of bricks on top of each tank to keep the lids on and shut the power off.

 

[Opcn]

Suzie, Having a great many fire fighter cousins and coming from a state that has lots of fires I can tell you that most people know that the fire is coming, unless the fire starts a few miles from you you have atleast 24 hours before it gets to you, a fire in a city on the other hand is another matter, back when cities were made of wood everyone would be scuttled in no time fast, but out in the forested parts of the world there is lots of distance between things and trees that are full of sap don't burn too terribly fast.