You already got a ton of good answers, let me add fish lice to those
1000 Ways to Kill a Fish volume 1
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Fish Lice are only found on koi and goldfish; more or Ornamental, correct? What do they do? Are they bad?
You can find them on any fish, I once bought a batch of spotted Raphaels that had fish lice. Fortunately, I quarantine. They basically suck the life out of fish, they fade away from weakness.
When I went fishing in alaska all the salmon we caught silvers and pinks I think. all had see lice that were massive like 1.5" it was pretty gross
Sea Lice are also commonly found on Lingcod. One we caught that we threw back had sea lice all over. Deckhands said it was nothing ?
+1
Jumpers have accounted for most of my loses, next would be fish on fish homicide
I'm intrigued guys, and i'm not judging here in any way shape or form. Usually with fish losses you'd try and prevent a repeat occurrence by putting some form of corrective action in place, and most certainly if it was a recurring reason for said losses.
Did you both lose these fish on tanks with no canopies, or are we talking about the particularly violent jumpers which smash through canopies? Or maybe your losses were from the other type of jumper, the escape artists which slip through gaps?
I'm curious because i've never lost a fish either through a wild and sudden violent jump or a sneaky flip out of a small gap.
I haven’t lost many fish , but the ones I have lost are to jumping out of the back between the lid and filter or one fish deciding to kill another.
Small gaps, fish broke through canopy or moved it, left door open after feeding or cleaning, other people tampering with tank...I've had a couple that seemed to Houdini their way out of fully secured lids taped all the way around somehow.
