Happiest and Saddest moments.

[RocketBunny]

Hello fellow reefers! In this thread, please tell us about your happiest/funniest or saddest moments throughout your time with aquariums

We will be interested to learn about such experiences !

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[revhtree Verified Admin]

Saddest moment was when I was moving tanks and lost most all of my fish due to an ammonia spike in a holding tank. Stupid move that still haunts me today!

 

[Waters]

Well I have a lot of sad moments lol. Probably when I was setting up a new tank and dumped the bag of sand into the bottom. The sand was wet and came out all at once and cracked the bottom of the aquarium. Happiest was when everything finally came together....coral started growing, algae disappeared, fish all got along

 

[Sailingeric]

Happy... that my fish are all healthy and happy.. Sad.. when I had to toss a toadstool coral that never opened and started falling part and sad when my first SW fish- a clown - went carpet surfing and noticed it too late.

 

[Jeff Sawyer]

My significant other and I went to do a little shopping the other day, then went to a friends for dinner had a great time. We had been gone about 6 hours we started back home, that’s when I had the oh-**** moment. As in “Oh-****, I left the RODI making water on the third floor”. Then, of course, we got stuck in a traffic jam. So for about another hour I was sitting in the car imagining the worst. I was pretty sad thinking about all the damage that was probably happening to the newly remodeled bedroom below it.

Finally, got home ran upstairs and I had in fact left it running and it had run over on to the floor. There was about 2.5 inches of water standing in the room my equipment is in. Luckily though I had built a little baseboard edge and painted that and the sub-floor with Red Guard, my thought at the time was that it was just to give me a little more time to clean up spills. I was very happy when I discovered the Red Guard had held and as far as I can tell not a drop of water went anywhere else. Very happy when my significant other started speaking to me again.

 

[RocketBunny]

Saddest moment was when I was moving tanks and lost most all of my fish due to an ammonia spike in a holding tank. Stupid move that still haunts me today!

Oh thats sad. I will be moving my fish + corals to a new tank I am building... hope that won't happen.

 

[RocketBunny]

Well I have a lot of sad moments lol. Probably when I was setting up a new tank and dumped the bag of sand into the bottom. The sand was wet and came out all at once and cracked the bottom of the aquarium. Happiest was when everything finally came together....coral started growing, algae disappeared, fish all got along

Nice... Lol I dumped a bunch of sand with two bags of silica (those used to prevent moisture... IDK how they got in there) for the next three months, diatoms and algae would not leave me... and then I found the little white bags while sifting sand around...

 

[RocketBunny]

Anything hilariously funny that happened? Please. Do tell.

 

[RocketBunny]

My significant other and I went to do a little shopping the other day, then went to a friends for dinner had a great time. We had been gone about 6 hours we started back home, that’s when I had the oh-**** moment. As in “Oh-****, I left the RODI making water on the third floor”. Then, of course, we got stuck in a traffic jam. So for about another hour I was sitting in the car imagining the worst. I was pretty sad thinking about all the damage that was probably happening to the newly remodeled bedroom below it.

Finally, got home ran upstairs and I had in fact left it running and it had run over on to the floor. There was about 2.5 inches of water standing in the room my equipment is in. Luckily though I had built a little baseboard edge and painted that and the sub-floor with Red Guard, my thought at the time was that it was just to give me a little more time to clean up spills. I was very happy when I discovered the Red Guard had held and as far as I can tell not a drop of water went anywhere else. Very happy when my significant other started speaking to me again.

Lol... Good that the people under you didn't get a small rain, or they would have been mad.

 

[NoWaiAma]

Saddest. When I found this website and learned I was torturing Molly’s that I was very fond of when “cycling” my new and first saltwater tank.

Happiest. Seeing coral move in the water in my house happily while my fish swam about and my pistol shoveled mountains of sand around. Seeing and understanding what these tanks are. Tiny eco systems full of life and real consequence.

 

[cracker]

Oh wow, My worst experience . i caught a little Robin fish in a cast net & brought it home ,put it in my old 220, With in a week every fish was wiped out with what I think was velvet . I had no idea what to do & had to watch .
On a lighter note , I was doing some maintenance on the same tank & my Huma trigger took the proverbial leap. I instinctively caught it in mid air . He was fine. Come to think of it this was before the Velvet experience.

 

[Empress]

Saddest is waking up at 2 in the morning to see your fully stocked aquarium splitting at the seams. I never moved so fast in my life! Buckets! Buckets! Get some buckets!!

Happiest is finding my tiny blue neon fish still alive in that old tank that split at the seam. He was cold, hungry, scared but still alive even after 4 weeks in about an inch of dirty water all by himself. I was so happy to find him I panicked and just threw him in the new tank without thinking. He lived happily ever after. I named him Survivor. [emoji225]

 

[Shaina Carey]

I lost a whole bunch of fish due to not knowing I had to slowly acclimate my freshwater fish to make sure the Ph swings didn't shock them. After that, I never lost a fish.

 

[RocketBunny]

Saddest is waking up at 2 in the morning to see your fully stocked aquarium splitting at the seams. I never moved so fast in my life! Buckets! Buckets! Get some buckets!!

Happiest is finding my tiny blue neon fish still alive in that old tank that split at the seam. He was cold, hungry, scared but still alive even after 4 weeks in about an inch of dirty water all by himself. I was so happy to find him I panicked and just threw him in the new tank without thinking. He lived happily ever after. I named him Survivor. [emoji225]

Yup. When you see that splitting seam... you know buckets are your only chance!

 

[Empress]

Yup. When you see that splitting seam... you know buckets are your only chance!

And kicking the dogs outta the way and screaming at the husband. But in the end it was all good. I managed to save every single fish! Not so much with the corals because I had no place to put them all. Needless to say, I called in sick at work in the morning. Told my boss my dog died.

 

[LadyMac]

My most sad moment was when I lost five betta macrostoma fry .a very hard fish to get any fry from, and my overexuberance did them in. Had I left the tank alone, they most likely would have thrived. Instead I thought pulling them to a smaller setup would allow better/easier feedings . Lesson learned. My most happy(other than the Mac fries!) Would have to be when I finally decided to go with a marine setup. Having it to compare the differences of marine life to fresh life is amazing .such differences in their needs, yet also somewhat the same.

 

[Shaina Carey]

My most sad moment was when I lost five betta macrostoma fry .a very hard fish to get any fry from, and my overexuberance did them in. Had I left the tank alone, they most likely would have thrived. Instead I thought pulling them to a smaller setup would allow better/easier feedings . Lesson learned. My most happy(other than the Mac fries!) Would have to be when I finally decided to go with a marine setup. Having it to compare the differences of marine life to fresh life is amazing .such differences in their needs, yet also somewhat the same.

I would have cried so much. Betta fish are my life

 

[DeniseAndy]

Funniest for me had to be also the "what just happened" moment. I had my little biocube 29g going and a pair of clownfish that had been regularly spawning and very happy in their Kenya tree. So, I opened the lid to feed them as I did often.

The female took offense and literally jumped about 10 inches out of the water to bite me, only she missed and somehow managed to dive headfirst behind some sofa cushions on the couch near the tank. Took me a minute to find her. I checked all over the floor, couch, etc. Then moved the big cushion and there she was. Darn fish.

I got her back in and immediately she went to bite me again.

Learned quickly that although I love clowns, they are not loving fish. By the way, she is still out there somewhere today. I had to sell her and her mate due to them not letting any other fish into the 210g upgrade. Seriously, they took over the entire tank. Killed a couple fish before I could sell them.

 

[LadyMac]

I would have cried so much. Betta fish are my life

Oh I did. I watched as one by one each little fry succomed to velvet. Too young to medicate. What's worse is when I took his children, it caused dad (whom I raised from a juvie himself) to become depressed . He never held again, and totally ignored his females advances for spawning.

 

[oldfishman]

Please forgive me and don’t yell at me but my saddest moment was yesterday while be in a hurry I glued the coral and not the rock it was attached too. Didn’t realize until two hours later. Poor guy is trying to recover