View Full Version : RTC are my downfall......
rottbo
02-15-2007, 8:17 AM
Everytime I get them in something major happens and I lose fish..... ones that actually matter to me.... I get a bit upset about losing any fish but these have all been ones that make me crazy to lose... The first set of big rtcs that I had come in a week later my pump seized up and I had a huge amonia spike come home to cloudy water two dead rtcs and a dead silver aro (26") then this time I get one in all my heating fails and I lose one rtc and all 6 motoros... I have decided that if I will never own and RTC again!!!!!! (well if I do it will be in a pond by itself cause I really love the look of this fish)......
Honda12
02-15-2007, 10:27 AM
That sucks man, what a bummer.
ethnics
02-15-2007, 10:29 AM
dont say that man, rtc's are dope. you just have bad timing or it was a couinsidence?(sp). there massive body size is a must to have man. dont give up on such a great species. i hate that you lost all them beautiful motoros. that musta been a ****** to clear out and jus toss away :( but dont let it kill u. we live, we learn.
chico3611
02-15-2007, 10:40 AM
Sorry for the loss, man you must have been upset. what bad luck. You are making me want to run out and get an extra pump to have running as a back up in case the main goes. Like ethnics said, dont let those set backs make you give up on such a beauty.
baracuda
02-15-2007, 4:46 PM
Sorry for your losses man that freakin sucks!! Same thing happened to me a while back the filter failed and all my fish died tsn, rtc,dat,freshwater stonefish,pike....So just get started again and go for it!!! GL
Like all the rest, i'm very sorry to hear about your losses. These things do happen, and always to the fish we love the most. Give it a day or so and you'll be thinking about your next batch of fish. Thats what we do. Good luck and NEVER give up.
bob
Miguel
02-15-2007, 5:13 PM
two years ago I lost, in one night, 3 huge silvers, 1 jardini and 2 asians, apart from mnor fish, due to a pump failure...I had to start all over again.. my wife still remembers my face when i walked into the bedroom and told her what I just had seen in the fish room...you will get over it..
TheMightyOscar
02-15-2007, 10:37 PM
sorry for the loss man..always sucks to lose a fish you like
necrocanis
02-16-2007, 11:42 PM
feeling your pain. I recently lost 3 of my largest catfish due to the incompetence of a stupid landlord, and a powersurge outtage?
doubledragon
02-25-2007, 3:27 AM
Like everybody else, sorry to hear that, One day I stayed up all day movin around 4 tanks. And when I passed out I was down for the count. Everything was on and running but I didn't put the lids back on the koi tank and somebody splashed water out of the tank and on the 6-way, everything was plugged into. It shut off, thankfully instead of something worse, but all 3 albino channel cats that I got up to a foot apiece were lost that day. We live we learn, we still get more fish, that's just the way it goes. That's why we are Monster Fish Keepers.
DeLgAdO
02-25-2007, 4:00 AM
dont say that man, rtc's are dope. you just have bad timing or it was a couinsidence?(sp). there massive body size is a must to have man. dont give up on such a great species. i hate that you lost all them beautiful motoros. that musta been a ****** to clear out and jus toss away :( but dont let it kill u. we live, we learn.
you know one thing that does bother me (no offense to you or anyone else)
but whenever anyone loses a fish or keeps losing fish and gets the response "dont give up!" to me it sounds like "keep getting them and keep killing them" until your successful or "get lucky"...... STOP!.....JUST KILLING THEM!!! :cry:
yanno?
rottbo
02-25-2007, 8:13 AM
I know what you are saying I am not killing them from bad water or to small of a tank though evertime I get one something major happens the first time it was a pump failure this last time was the heater failure....
DeLgAdO
02-25-2007, 7:37 PM
I know what you are saying I am not killing them from bad water or to small of a tank though evertime I get one something major happens the first time it was a pump failure this last time was the heater failure....
rottbos the man though :)
parker21104
02-25-2007, 9:36 PM
I just found out what it was like to lose A new rtc. I bought a 20" rtc from someone who I should have seen the signs from the broken barbs and lack of energy that it was sick/not taken care of. I got this fish home acclimated just right slow trickle for about 15 minutes and put it in my tank and compared it to my rtc and immidiately noticed the problems. Sure enough the rtc died that night in less than six hours. Go figure I took two large pacu from this guy that I do not really want and they lived and the rtc dies. The money did not bother but the fact that I took a fish into my care and it died bothers me.
rottbo
02-25-2007, 9:38 PM
thanks man I try but I really just get lucky most the time hahaha..... Del I am glad to see that you still have that big pretty girl in you avatar
DeLgAdO
02-26-2007, 12:41 AM
thanks man I try but I really just get lucky most the time hahaha..... Del I am glad to see that you still have that big pretty girl in you avatar
she's not pink though :irked:
lol :D
Bogwoodbruce
02-26-2007, 1:18 AM
I'm sorry for your loss, i know what it's like. I had to move one of my tanks urgently and in the night the external stopped working and i lost 5 9 inch parrot cichlids that i had for years. I was so angry but luckily my oscars survived. So every cloud.
fishaddict
03-02-2007, 10:18 AM
Sorry for your lost, But I don't understand how so many guys loose power or their pump malfunction overnight and they have such huge lost. I've had in the past forgotten to turn the power back on after feeding my fish. And realized the next morning what I did and never lost one fish.IMO. I think if you have the proper filtration creating enough oxigen this could be prevented. Again this is just my opinion and I'm stil sorry for all the loses you guys had.
Redtail_Watcher
03-07-2007, 11:14 PM
don't give up or don't give into not want to keep one happy and well i lost alot already but i stil have one big one and a baby 6in rtc in a 440g pond.
rottbo
03-08-2007, 8:04 AM
Sorry for your lost, But I don't understand how so many guys loose power or their pump malfunction overnight and they have such huge lost. I've had in the past forgotten to turn the power back on after feeding my fish. And realized the next morning what I did and never lost one fish.IMO. I think if you have the proper filtration creating enough oxigen this could be prevented. Again this is just my opinion and I'm stil sorry for all the loses you guys had.
OK first time a mag drive pump seized up and I didnt notice for a day there was a huge amonia spike and only three fish died not all of them second time was when we had a small poweroutage somehow the surge protector malfuntioned that all the heaters were plugged into and fried the heaters I only lost my rays and the rtc I over filter my pond but if it goes un noticed with such a huge bio load then the ammonia builds up fast... I have some big poopers in the pond
doubledragon
03-26-2007, 11:27 PM
Huh,Huh, Huh, Huh You said big poopers Huh Huh That waz cool.
doubledragon
03-26-2007, 11:29 PM
:banhim: Sorry, I guess Beavis and Butthead impersonations don't come out that funny on the computer:banhim: :ROFL: :ROFL:
gomezladdams
03-27-2007, 12:01 AM
Losing any fish is tough but thats a real bummer.
Sorry man.:(
Sandee
03-30-2007, 3:40 PM
An on the topic of RTC ... I just moved my webcams around ... you can see Baby Felix really well on Ch. 3 - take a look!
And so sorry you lost your guy - he's in that big pond in the sky now.
http://www.sandeeland.com/FishCam/
Dovii dude
04-22-2007, 8:51 AM
Dont give up!!!!I had the same problem with a fish i really liked,Texas cichlids everytime i got one it lasted a few days and died,well after about a dozen or so trys i finally was able to keep one for over a year(it grew to about 6 inches,i just traded it in and got me a new TSN(wich i really love!!):naughty:
exupru
04-29-2007, 12:16 PM
stick with the red tails awesome fish i have lost 2 over the years and was gutted but stick with em it will be well worth it.
mabfnb
04-30-2007, 9:28 PM
SAME HERE BROTHER I HAD TWO MYSELF AND SOMETHING BIZZARE HAPPENS TO ME ALSO I FOUND ONE AT A PET STORE AND THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT THEY HAD, IT WAS PRICED THE SAME AS A ALBINO CHANNEL CAT. I BOUGHT IT AND TOOK IT HOME AND PUT IT IN A CYCLED 10 GALLON TANK TILL I GOT MY OLD 150 GALLON SET-UP ,DIDNT HAVE A CAP ON MY HOB FILTER TUBE AND IT SWAM UP THE TUBE AND DIED WHILE I WAS SLEEP AND THE OTHER ONE I HAD MY WIFE OVERFEED HIM WHILE I WAS OUT OF TOWN AND HE HIS BELLY SPLIT OPEN ,TELL ME THATS NOT CRAZY!!! AND THEY ARE HARD TO GET WERE I LIVE