I used to have a beautiful 45 gallon fish tank. Wanna know what killed off all my fish? A FLOOD. I kid you not! :D
Well okay, it wasn't the water that did it (only about 6 inches) but the cold in the apartment since there wasn't any heat afterwords....
We've always had fish tanks. For some reason, my husband now has them in the basement, still with fish in them and I guess the fish are happy but not in a place where anyone ever sees them. It's his thing though so I don't say anything. I did use to give him a hard time about them because when the kids were little and we were going to have company, I would turn into the cleaning Nazi and the kids would scatter and he would go down and clean the fish tanks. We used to joke that they always reproduced at Christmas time but then realized that was when they got fresh water in their tanks. I've since learned to put a chicken hat on when I'm getting ready for company. Did you know you can't be angry or cranky or stressed while wearing a chicken hat?