Abused Fish

[dogofwar]

"some butter and some garlic. mmmmm hot frying pan and you got a your self an appitizer."

6 years of stewing in their own waste will make them plenty tasty...Bon apetite!

 

[balton777]

That is the classic result of nitrate poisoning. Fish can't grow in high nitrates. All of their energy is put toward their immune systems and bio-filtering organs (liver, pancreas, etc.).

When a fish goes from nasty water to clean water, their cells and systems suffer osmotic shock. The result is nearly always death. A member here did a 10% wc on a friends tank and half of the fish died within an hour.

Either that or it's a couple of Petsmarts Tinfoil Barbs. lol

tnfoil barbs 3",. that's insane

(quoted from the 'Petsmart literature' thread.)

 

[FishRfine]

sad...

 

[gypsydancer]

Hard to tell with TF's as they scare very easy. Mine are 5 and 7 years old and are 8 and 10 inches. Mine that died was 11 inches at 6 years old

 

[116]

Hey! Petsmart has BIG healthy tinfoil barbs!!! For reals >_>

Poor migit fish. I'm not gonna lie though, they're alot cuter than the big ones lol.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

those pictures should be shown as proof to people who don't believe fish get stunted.

 

[niblit]

in the future when rescueing neglected fish do a series of tiny w/c's to slowly change the waste levels in the water and you might have better results.I get a lot of calls from people that have let their tanks go to hell and want it clean now, it is always a pain to convince people that "right now"is not a time frame i can work with in their case but as a result we've brought back some real swamps into nice healthy tanks

 

[benzjamin13]

Wow...how sad I would think even without water changes, if she fed them properly, they should've been bigger than 5" in a 55g over 6 years.

 

[[enjoyable_attempt]]

Those look horrible, poor barbs

 

[spiff]

I abuse my fish all the time. When they splash me I say " Why you @%^^@!" Or when I'm trying to catch them its "Come here you little @@$%%^#!"