Bad luck recently?

[Euge]

Hi everyone, i just need to rant.

I've had such bad luck with fish in the last 5 days. As some of you may know I was up in China and purchased a dat. It was about 6 inches long and i got it for $30US, which i think is a pretty good price. I was stressing out about it the whole night but it was fine. Its colours were normal as well. Then just as i get in the car to go to the train station to go home, i check on the dat and this is what i find:

So i'm pretty pissed off, but i get over it. I come home. To find my 8 inch channa asiatica dead. That was the one thats been suffering from some kind of bacterial infection. I then notice my 5 inch asiatica and notice it too has some sort of bacterial infection. Its tail is liteally rotting away. Its tale looks like a skeleton. Which i'm treating now. I then look in my channa bleheri tank. and i find 3 floating dead snakheads. I have 3 left and two of them are sick. One of them has ulcers coming up and blood in its eye and one of the other two looks sick (clamped fins and staying at the surface) and the last one looks fine. So i decide to clean it and find a dead spotted perch. GOD DAMN ALL THIS DEATH. I'm seriously thinking about just forgetting about fish keeping all together. The bleheri's were all nice and healthy and very active when i left then BAM all of a sudden i dunno what happened.

 

[dougefresh]

that's hard to deal with man.........i came home sunday from the beach to see my cichlid growout tank had a outbreak with ich..........started treatin the tank ........came home last night looked in the tank and my raphael cat and geophagus were dead.......the convicts and the jag had lost all their color.........did a 75% water change cleaned all the gravel and let them sit for the night.......today there doin better..........so we're all havin bad times.........you'll pull through though............

 

[michael]

sorry to hear this man. Got to try and not let it bumb you out. Do a couple repetive large medicated water changes and give the remaining fish a few weeks. Hopefully the rest live and you can go on to find some new inhabitants. Maybe try someing new other than SH and you could spark a new interest. Just my .02 hope it helps. good luck

 

[Slim2634]

yea ive had really bad luck. i had about 25-30 bucks worth of community guppies and stuff in my 20 gallon, and i went to get a betta from the local petland to color up the tank. but he beat up my guppy so i put him in the one gallon. all of a sudden 2 days later he had white specks all over his gills. i was mad because he gave all my fish ich and it was bad and most of them died before i could do anything. all that is left are 4 danios and my 3 albino cory cats. i swear im giving up on these dang community fish. im getting a monster next.

 

[Oddball]

I feel your pain. But, don't let it bring you down. Just make sure your tanks are perfect for the new batch of fish and go from there.
In one tank, at the same time, I lost a 36" titanic panaque, 22" M. uranoscopus (irwini) cat, 22" M. tigrinus cat, 15" royal panaque, 12" P. niger cat, and several others. That's over $3,000 USD in fish lost to a stuck pump impeller while I was away for just a few days.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I had a bad time end of last year losing my scobina ray, lap bichir and a sturgeon cat with a couple of weeks, apart from that I have been fine recently (touches wood!)

 

[ewurm]

Sorry for your bad luck, good things will happen soon.

 

[Carg R]

No diminishing your loss- both financial and emotional (for those who lost their long time pets)-sorry.

Can't really compair my fish losses to yours (especially when the most expensive fish I've ever bought was only $40 -polleni small spot)...$2.00 pseudotropheus acei or $7.00 nimbo venustus.

Death is the nature of keeping pets (live ones that is, unlike the pet rock...). Dead fish are what I use to teach my 3 year old about death...No the dr cannot fix the fish...

 

[guppy]

The way the disease is hitting so quickly and badly makes me think either aeromonas or pseudomonas furunculosis. I would isolate the remaining fish, disinfect the empty tanks completely, and treat the surviving fish with (in order of preference) AP triple Sulfa, Maracyn Plus, or Binox.

 

[Peanut_Power]

Well, when I moved here to Mississippi I lost ALL my fish...at least you still have some left over. I just recently got more fish. Its discouraging for sure, very frustrating, but there isn't anything you can do about it. Best thing is to try to move on and learn from your mistakes.