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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Cichlids / March 2006Holy Cow, Miracle fish
Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast enough to swim away from the guilotine (spelling?) that was the glass and the electrocution that was looming... Lucky I cut the power to the light before it could sink far enough to zap him... I guess his name isn't Buzz for nothing... So he's ok, but wow is he freaked out at the moment, I guess since I walked into the room right as it happened, he thinks I did it, now he's hiding from me :( > Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke > and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > walked into the room right as it happened, he thinks I did it, now he's > hiding from me :( That's kinda like hitting a parkway bird with a car..... they seem to come so close before they take off, but in reality it's almost impossible. >> Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke >> and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > come > so close before they take off, but in reality it's almost impossible. Talking of death-defying fish, one of my little shell dwellers swam into the canister filter outlet when the pump was turned off last night, and I didn't notice. When I turned it back on her swimming, combined with the water pressure, meant she was fired across the tank faster than I have ever seen a fish move before into the far side of the tank. I was concerned but the fish was completely unfazed. She was still chewing on a mouthfull of food :) -Jon haha! I guess I'm lucky since my track record with fish is not that great. This one is going to grow up huge though - at least i want him too, he'd better not die dammit! > Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke > and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > walked into the room right as it happened, he thinks I did it, now he's > hiding from me :( You haven't seen fun until you've seen a Buttikoferi play tug-o-war with a plugged in heater AFTER he breaks it open against the side of the tank. I used to have a puffer named 'Ziggy the Miracle Puffer' because h survived so much! He was one of my first brackish fish, and the tan was a one-day set-up with live sand. Through the years, that tank crashed numerous times and he enjoye tankmates like a moray eel (big green wild kind), toadfish, scats monos, archers, lots of sailfin mollies, burrfish, gobies, skilletfish and numerous others. Once he even suffered a massive hemmorage in whic some of his insides came outside! He was once so sick he was on th filter uptake, and I surely thought that was the end of him. Severa times I would put my hand in the tank and feel a buzz - somethin (heater, light, etc) would give the water a little charge. He eve lived through a bout of brackish-tolerant oodenium (ich), parasiti polychates, and there were times when he was only thing in the tank! However, he did eventually sucuumb to old age not too long ago. W will all miss him terribly and hope no other fish has to suffer throug what he did -- Miss_Morg >> Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke >> and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > You haven't seen fun until you've seen a Buttikoferi play tug-o-war with > a plugged in heater AFTER he breaks it open against the side of the tank. Forgot to mention the rest of the tug-o-war bit: After unplugging the heater, he spit it out, nudged it a few times, and swam away. Plugging it back in would bring him back to start chewing on it again. > Man, I just entered the room, when suddenly one of my tank lids broke > and the light fell in!!! My little oscar is so lucky he was fast [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > walked into the room right as it happened, he thinks I did it, now he's > hiding from me :( My mom had a gourami that got trapped in a hole in a rock. It was face down in the sand when we found it. I had to pull the gourami through. It was missing some of its scales and looked rather odd afterwards but a about 2 months later he was back with scales. Seemed like a big deal to me at the time. I tried to catch a catfish with a net and of course he got caught in it. I cut the net off but he had a piece of green on him for almost half a year. I also had angles in my 75 ga tank as a community tank. Everyone told me that they would not breed in a community tank. Well they did, twice, on the filter intake at the top where there was not suction. Wish I still had them. Hurricane Ivan made me find another home for them. We had no power for more than a month. The only thing in the house that wasn't turned over by water was my fish aquarium. Ivan brought about four foot of water from the bayou into my house.Man! I hope we don't have the hurricanes this year. We even had water in the back room from Katrina and I live in Pensacola, about 200 miles away from land fall. This house has been here for 50y years with no flooding. Sorry for the ranting but they say this year is going to be worse. Erik oh gee, I hope it's not worse!! That sounds like some terrible damage. 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