OMG!!! My husbands clown fish just went in the garbage disposal!!!!

[justbugged]

I am so glad you saved the fishy. We saved our eel back when he was a little guy. He had somehow gotten sucked up into the filter. I still don't know how long he was in the filter before DH started to clean it. The first thing he knew about the eel being in the filter was he saw something moving in the gravel after he dumped the filter out. He scooped him up and tossed the little guy back into the tank. The little guy is now nearly 20" long. So there is life after near death.

Nessy the Loch Ness eel lives in a 75 gallon fresh water tank.

I have to agree that putting your hand in the garbage disposal is somehow way nasty and kind of scary.

 

[halo]

Must have been his lucky fin that saved him.

 

[claud]

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Only go for the drain WITHOUT the garbage disposal!

 

[Duramaxgirl]

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Ha ha ha! That's funny

I used to have fish and droped a few too... I had an oscar that leaped out of his tank and flopped around the living room before we caught him. He got HUGE!

 

[herefordlovinglady]

 

[Sootsie]

first id like to say im glad the fish is ok

but im sorry its just too funny

 

[kla37]

Poor Nemo! Glad you got him out al right! But funny story.....

 

[rancher hicks]

Just gotta say I hope all works out.

Rancher

 

[SparksNV]

OMG!!! That exact scenario happened to me, too!. My girls had beta fish & we were cleaning them - Olivia's jumped out of the net and down the disposal - with my 2 dds and I screaming. I also DO NOT put my hand in a disposal (thank you Stephen King!) and I do not touch live fish. My dh was 2 minutes from the house and ..... He saves the day and the fish! Bob the fish lived for another 2 yrs!

BTW, the Stephen King reference was to a story he wrote (maybe Dead Zone) where a man put has hand in a disposal and turned it on to kill himself. I just cannot put my hand in it...

hope the clown fish has recovered...

 

[mylittlechickpea]

I watched a movie when I was younger where someone had put there hand into the garbage disposal and it got turned on. If I ever have to put my hand down there I wear gloves (which I know wouldn't help, but it makes me feel better) and I have a good 5 minutes to prepare myself for it, lol. And live squirmy fish just aren't really my cup of tea, DH says I'm such a girl about some things

But yes, I am glad I was able to get him out. Here he is hiding out towards the back of his little man-fish-cave

ETA: We also have a big catfish that we rescued from ChinaTown. He lives in a big 55 gallon tank in the living room. If he ever escaped, or somehow flopped out of a net or his tank I think I would die..