Inadvertent boily shark death...I used to have a 4ft fishtank, which I filled with a load of tropical fish, including a Black, Red-tailed Shark called Vorhees. They are only about 6' long but look the biz.
They all lasted quite a while, until the fighting fish killed itself (in a similar reflection-battering death as posted earlier) and the others succumbed to black-spot before I could get to them. This just left Vorhees alone in his tank.
One day, I noticed the bottom corner was leaking, so I carefully prepared a smaller tank with some of the existing water, set it up all nice and spangly, and transferred the shark along with the heating unit and the filter.
Now, I didnt realise that if you reduce the amount of water in a tank by 4/5, then the heating unit doesnt need to work as hard. so you have to use a much smaller one.
Suffice to say I came back upstairs half an hour later to find vorhees very much dead on the surface of the tank, in water that was too hot to put my hand in.
No, we didnt eat him.
(They all lasted quite a while, until the fighting fish killed itself (in a similar reflection-battering death as posted earlier) and the others succumbed to black-spot before I could get to them. This just left Vorhees alone in his tank.
One day, I noticed the bottom corner was leaking, so I carefully prepared a smaller tank with some of the existing water, set it up all nice and spangly, and transferred the shark along with the heating unit and the filter.
Now, I didnt realise that if you reduce the amount of water in a tank by 4/5, then the heating unit doesnt need to work as hard. so you have to use a much smaller one.
Suffice to say I came back upstairs half an hour later to find vorhees very much dead on the surface of the tank, in water that was too hot to put my hand in.
No, we didnt eat him.
B00gle-H00ps Looks like a horse, in a man costume...,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 13:43,
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Careful - he'll probably regeneratethen come after you, wearing a fishy hockey mask
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roystead,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 15:24,
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