You Can Accidentally Kill Your Fish While Cleaning the Tank

There are many ways that you can accidentally kill your fish. This happens a lot of times after you clean the fish tank. You see your tank is starting to cloud up so you decide you're going to do a water change. Then the next day you realize that you fish are dead. You thought you were going to help out the fish by cleaning the fish tank but you accidentally killed them instead.

One way to accidentally kill the fish is to place a metal object in the water. This will cause metal poisoning. Perhaps you placed a spoon or metal brush on top of the fish tank and it fell in on accident. Metal poisoning will kill your fish so you need to make sure that none of the tools that you use will kill your fish while you're cleaning the fish tank.

Another way that you can easily kill the fish is to forget to plug the bubbler back in. I've done this at least twice and i've killed two fish tanks full of fish in the process. If you have large fish in your tank and you forget to plug the bubbler back in you will know in the morning. You will see all of the fish floating around in the tank and you will see the cord sitting on the desk. You will know what happened and you will forget and probably make the same mistake again in the future.

Another way to kill the fish on accident to is forget about the tank while you're draining the water. You walk back into the room several hours later to go to bed and find all the fish laying at the bottom of the tank on their sides. I actually come back in and found this and I filled the tank up with water and the fish were fine. I'm not sure how that works but you can easily kill your fish if you forget and drain all of the water.

Another thing that might happen is you might suck the fish right down the siphon tube. You will want to purchase a tube which has a grid on the front to stop the fish from getting sucked into the tube. I sucked a goldfish down through my siphon tube and the fish lived for about one year with dropsy, which makes the fish look like a pinecone due to organ failure.

You can also accidentally drop heavy decorations on your fish and crush them. Be careful when you move around decorations because you can crush the fish. It doesn't take much to hurt the fish and cause organ failure.