Holy Cow, Miracle fish

[Beano]

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 :(

[JK@work]

"Beano" > wrote in message
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> 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 :(
>

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.

[Fallout]

"JK@work" > wrote in message
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>
> "Beano" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>> 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 :(
>>
>
> 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.
>

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

[Beano]

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!

[Polarhound]

Beano wrote:
> 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 :(
>

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.

[Miss_Morg]

I used to have a puffer named 'Ziggy the Miracle Puffer' because he survived so much! He was one of my first brackish fish, and the tank was a one-day set-up with live sand.

Through the years, that tank crashed numerous times and he enjoyed 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 which some of his insides came outside! He was once so sick he was on the filter uptake, and I surely thought that was the end of him. Several times I would put my hand in the tank and feel a buzz - something (heater, light, etc) would give the water a little charge. He even lived through a bout of brackish-tolerant oodenium (ich), parasitic 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. We will all miss him terribly and hope no other fish has to suffer through what he did!

[Polarhound]

Polarhound wrote:
> Beano wrote:
>
>> 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 :(
>>
>
> 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.

[Beano]

HA!!!

[Erik W]

Beano wrote:
> 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 :(
>

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

[Beano]

oh gee, I hope it's not worse!! That sounds like some terrible damage.
How long did it take to fix?

[toreskeviin]

I swim in a small Shell to residents tank filter outlet, the pump is turned off last night, I did not notice. When I put it back in her swimming, with water pressure, which means she was fired from the tank faster than the one I have ever seen moved into the other side of the fish tank.