toughest thing in your tank?

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eric b 125

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i dont mean hardy fish, like damsels, or hermit crabs that can go through a lot. what in your tank has gone through the most stuff, been close to death, but pulled through miraculously?
i have a hippo tang that spent a day in a bucket, no heater, no pumps
i drove 3 hours to pick it up, then it had to last the 3 hr drive back home. it was listless when it finally got here. a few water changes in the bucket for acclimation, and when it went into the qt, started swimming fine. it was a real nail biter for a while though. it must have been in the bucket for 9 hours.
 
pezenfuego

pezenfuego

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My large feather duster has been through a lot. It managed to survive my newbness and I still have it today.
It has been taken completely out of the water. It has been torn from a hermit crab pulling too hard on the algae on it's tube. It has had rocks dropped on it, it has lost and regrown it's plume...it's been through a lot...other than that animal, not much.
 
salt life

salt life

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my chain link moray, first eel I bought and he has been through all my tank issues and is still kickin'.
 
alabama reefer

alabama reefer

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My Longhorn Cowfish. I awoke one morning to find him stuck to a modified maxijet ph. It chopped one of his side fins off. He had to swim in circles for a while but the fin grew back and he never skipped a beat.
 
crimzy

crimzy

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My yellow ray has survived getting beaten up by a sohal tang, and then a moorish idol. She has been cured of a large goiter and has jumped out of the tank twice... once she banged against a hot MH bulb and broke it.
 
pezenfuego

pezenfuego

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Originally Posted by crimzy
http:///forum/post/3008075
My yellow ray has survived getting beaten up by a sohal tang, and then a moorish idol. She has been cured of a large goiter and has jumped out of the tank twice... once she banged against a hot MH bulb and broke it.
A goiter from iodine deficiency? What did you do? Just dose iodine?
 
symphony

symphony

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MY flame tail blenny. On day two of setting up my tank I bought live rock, it came out of the lfs tank and into paper and a cooler, out of water 40 min-1hr before in my tank. Then next day after the sand settled I saw I had a fish, thought he was an eel at first. he rules the tank and his "rock" with an iron fin.
 
salt210

salt210

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Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/3007716
i dont mean hardy fish, like damsels, or hermit crabs that can go through a lot. what in your tank has gone through the most stuff, been close to death, but pulled through miraculously?
i have a hippo tang that spent a day in a bucket, no heater, no pumps
i drove 3 hours to pick it up, then it had to last the 3 hr drive back home. it was listless when it finally got here. a few water changes in the bucket for acclimation, and when it went into the qt, started swimming fine. it was a real nail biter for a while though. it must have been in the bucket for 9 hours.
when I moved the tank 3 weeks ago all my fish were in buckets for 8hrs.
 
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eric b 125

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yeah, it's not as bad as what some ppls fish have gone through, but with the cold weather on the day i moved the fish, and the condition the fish was in when it finally got inside the house, i thought it was surprising the fish pulled through.
 
woody189

woody189

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Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/3007716
i have a hippo tang that spent a day in a bucket, no heater, no pumps
i drove 3 hours to pick it up, then it had to last the 3 hr drive back home. it was listless when it finally got here. a few water changes in the bucket for acclimation, and when it went into the qt, started swimming fine. it was a real nail biter for a while though. it must have been in the bucket for 9 hours.

Originally Posted by PEZenfuego
http:///forum/post/3007751
My large feather duster has been through a lot. It managed to survive my newbness and I still have it today.
It has been taken completely out of the water. It has been torn from a hermit crab pulling too hard on the algae on it's tube. It has had rocks dropped on it, it has lost and regrown it's plume...it's been through a lot...other than that animal, not much.

Originally Posted by Salt Life
http:///forum/post/3007895
my chain link moray, first eel I bought and he has been through all my tank issues and is still kickin'.

Originally Posted by Alabama Reefer
http:///forum/post/3008070
My Longhorn Cowfish. I awoke one morning to find him stuck to a modified maxijet ph. It chopped one of his side fins off. He had to swim in circles for a while but the fin grew back and he never skipped a beat.


Originally Posted by crimzy
http:///forum/post/3008075
My yellow ray has survived getting beaten up by a sohal tang, and then a moorish idol. She has been cured of a large goiter and has jumped out of the tank twice... once she banged against a hot MH bulb and broke it.

Originally Posted by symphony
http:///forum/post/3008419
MY flame tail blenny. On day two of setting up my tank I bought live rock, it came out of the lfs tank and into paper and a cooler, out of water 40 min-1hr before in my tank. Then next day after the sand settled I saw I had a fish, thought he was an eel at first. he rules the tank and his "rock" with an iron fin.

Originally Posted by salt210
http:///forum/post/3008538
when I moved the tank 3 weeks ago all my fish were in buckets for 8hrs.

Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/3008601
yeah, it's not as bad as what some ppls fish have gone through, but with the cold weather on the day i moved the fish, and the condition the fish was in when it finally got inside the house, i thought it was surprising the fish pulled through.

Originally Posted by reefaholic33
http:///forum/post/3008628
My pinktail, got beat to death by my Niger for 6 hours....then got ich and now is good as new.
you are all liars
 
symphony

symphony

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oh come now woody, don't be so insecure. You know I am a Labor and Delivery Nurse, so when a baby is insecure we swaddle it and give it a binki, def. can't call names with somethin in your mouth!
 
small triggers

small triggers

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UM, i think my picasso trigger. Hes been involved in an avalache, terrorized by my maroon, thrown into an anemone, bitten by my niger and hides under my hand when i try to clean the tank?
I think he is my tough guy. Plus when i moved all my fish from my 35g to the 150g I kinda just had to throw them in and of course he lands under my foxface? But hes still kicken and hes the smallest one.
 
woody189

woody189

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Originally Posted by symphony
http:///forum/post/3008685
oh come now woody, don't be so insecure. You know I am a Labor and Delivery Nurse, so when a baby is insecure we swaddle it and give it a binki, def. can't call names with somethin in your mouth!

You know you're not a nurse you liar.
 
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