2 in 1 loss…

[JakeLindsay]

This is one of those moments that you step back and say “realllyy”. I went out to feed my tanks and I got to the 150 and was throwing in pellets for my mono peacocks and realized that my Leopard cat didn’t come up like normal to join the frenzy so I started looking. This tank is set up like a peninsula and I normally feed at the front of the tank so I stepped around to the back to find my Leopard had passed. I did have an ammonia spike due to the tubing of the canister filter kinking in the hot temps but it seemed like all my fish were recovering well so I was shocked that my catfish didn’t make it. But when I got him out it wasn’t ammonia that got him, check it out…2 fish gone!! Moments like this make me want to stop in the hobby.

 

[celebrist]

Wow, double brutal day

 

[Backfromthedead]

Old saying around here:

Never trust a catfish.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Our sympathies. Our hobby is chock full of losses. You've just learned two important but very simple, basic lessons - make sure your filter is running as it should and don't place filter tubing in a position where it could fail and don't think your predatory catfish won't try to prey on suitable tank mates that can, however easily or remotely, fit in its mouth.

If I were to predict, you will have hundreds of such lessons ahead of you. We all had them. I had a thousand or two. So chin up, learn, and move on. But if this is truly so disheartening, then you might choose to spare yourself a ton of grief in the future. Our hobby requires one to keep a level head and grow a thick skin. The only one who doesn't suffer setbacks is the one who doesn't set anything forward.

Mr. $0.02

 

[Midwater]

He died happy.

 

[Fishman Dave]

Well - one of them!

 

[ryanstef]

is this TSN-RTC hybrid?

 

[JakeLindsay]

is this TSN-RTC hybrid?

I was told it was a Leopard catfish when I bought it. After a while it started morphing shape making me think it was a hybrid

 

[Fishman Dave]

Some call the rtcxtsn cross a leopard catfish when selling them but yes that’s what it is. Unfortunately the shape was due to his poor genes and he had a sceletal deformity of the head, hence the steep blunt face.
still sucks when this happens but I bet more than 50% of us have had this happen in some form.