I feel awful

[Sonicblast12]

Redid the aquascape in my 125 and set a rock right on top of my yellow tang. Didn't catch it for about two hours. Noticed I didn't see my tang for awhile and then saw him pinned under a rock motionless.

Horrified, moved the rock and watched as he was blown around the tank by the current. Still breathing, laid on it's side for while and is now attempting to right itself but still seems very disoriented. Hope he makes it, but I would be surprised if he makes it through the night. Respiration has slowed from breakneck to more normal. That's either good news or really bad news. I can't think of a dumber way to lose a fish.

Anyone ever do anything this stupid?

 

[Gogandantess]

Man that blows... I accidently did that to my tuxedo urchin that I've had about 2 years. I thought it would make it...but it just died and stopped moving after a few hours. Then one time, I just had bought a beautiful midas blenny that was in qurantine. I had opened the cover to feed the fish and left it open. Went to the pc for awhile and came back just to find it on the floor. It was still breathing hard. I quickly put him back in the tank hoping he'll make it... he just stayed in the corner and kept breathing hard. Next day he was gone. :sad2:

 

[stangd1909]

That sucks...

 

[rubensito]

I had a mistake when I dropped a relatively large blackbelt cichlid into a bucket full of aquarium gravel when moving one of my FW tanks last year, fell a couple of feet due to my carelessness in moving the fish. It ended up living and did well up until I parted ways with my cichlids back in October

 

[Sonicblast12]

Actually appears to be doing ok this morning. Developed it's normal nighttime coloration and is up swimming. Might skip a meal or two but seems to be on the mend.

 

[Swolek]

When I was fairly new to marine aquariums, I accidentally killed my beloved lemonpeel angelfish. I had been doing really large water changes to try to deal with an algae problem. I was changing so much water that I started to get lazy about testing. Turns out I managed to drop the pH from 8.3 to around 7.5 (or lower, can't remember) because I wasn't adding enough buffer to make up for the massive water changes (and the tank was new and so not as stable).

I finally noticed when all of the animals in the tank started acting weird and sluggish. The feather duster left his tube, hermits were trying to escape, etc. My lemonpeel angelfish was nowhere in sight. She had always "greeted" me when I came up to the tank so I knew something was very wrong. Suddenly she threw herself (seriously, she didn't swim, she basically pushed against the bottom) towards me and died a minute later . Even dying, she felt the need to "greet" me. I feel horrible to this day (and now it's been years) and I remember giving up on saltwater for almost a year (besides caring for the animals I still had).

I'm obsessive about pH now.

 

[stangd1909]

Well good news on him doing better...

 

[Sonicblast12]

Got home from work and was happy to see my big yellow disk cruising the tank as if nothing happened. Chased down a couple of pellets but didn't eat them...but I was ready for that. He'll get a nice big water change and some selcon soaked greens to think about.

 

[jhentr]

Great to see it pulling thru! I was fearing for the worst.

 

[duncantse]

When I was changing my aquascape, my 6 line wrasse got really stressed out then it got sucked inside my powerhead.

 

[Juice It]

Good news, glad he is doing ok. I have a little 3x2 inch feeding hole on top of my tank with an auto feeder and last week found my awesome bluethroat trigger dried up on the top of the tank. He has been in there for almost 2 years with no issues and I have never had a fish go up the feeding hole. I felt terrible that happend.

 

[helicoprion]

Glad to hear he's ok!!

 

[Sonicblast12]

Good news, glad he is doing ok. I have a little 3x2 inch feeding hole on top of my tank with an auto feeder and last week found my awesome bluethroat trigger dried up on the top of the tank. He has been in there for almost 2 years with no issues and I have never had a fish go up the feeding hole. I felt terrible that happend.

That settles that...putting a brick over my little feeding hole.

 

[Sonicblast12]

Out and about, playing with his friends.

 

[LukFox]

So glad to see he is bouncing back! It really hurts when this happens since it seems like such an idiotic mistake. I've put rocks on two fish in the past, and one unfortunately didn't make it. I didn't realize my mistake that time until the next day when she wasn't swimming around.

 

[Sonicblast12]

More good news. It took a couple of days, but ate a couple of pellets and is really doing a number on a sheet of nori tonight.

 

[corallus123]

Out and about, playing with his friends.

Wow, I had that exact combination of fish in my FOWLR tank for years when I lived in Calgary... Yellow tang, Picasso trigger and maroon clown. Same darn algae clip too - that's a trip!
If not for the bare bottom, I could swear that was a photo from my old tank. Glad to hear your tang is doing well

 

[kingfisher62]

Tough fish! Glad it is doing well.
I know how you feel . When I first started with marine tanks I had a fish only tank with artificial structures. One Day I pulled all the structures out and started scrubbing them down in the sink to remove algae. After about an hour I put everything back and returned to the sink to clean up. I found my algae blennie stiff as a board in my drain. I placed it in the tank only to watch it spiral down to the bottom. No suprise! After 20 minutes I noticed a very faint breathing. Nother half hour he completely recovered.

 

[Sonicblast12]

Wow, I had that exact combination of fish in my FOWLR tank for years when I lived in Calgary... Yellow tang, Picasso trigger and maroon clown. Same darn algae clip too - that's a trip!
If not for the bare bottom, I could swear that was a photo from my old tank. Glad to hear your tang is doing well

Did you miss the bluethroat trigger streaking across the top of the picture? Now there's a fish I will never be able to get a clear picture of.

He's half rocket.

The Niger in my avatar also shares this tank.

 

[ashtree68]

I was doing aquascaping in one of my tanks and had a rock slide, and was scared I trapped a fish/my mantis shrimp, everything was cloudy from the sand, and with three lions that were in it I couldn't exactly reach in and blindly pick up the rocks, was a very stressful couple of hours. Luckily everyone was okay.

Glad yours worked out for the best!