hello all new guy here... biggest lost for me was waking up one morning to find my male clown knifefish floating... both my male and female were about 12-14 inches... got rid of female a year later when she was just over 18 inches long...
Biggest unexpected fish loss ?
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Biggest unexpected loss was a whole 55g community tank, some ******* dropped a cigar butt in it during a party and by morning everything was dead, even the snails. Most unexpepted was an american eel whick was found one morning in my nieghbors swimming pool, lesson on that one is that if you keep eels you should use clamps to keep your lids on, they are strong and like too explore.
my biggest fish loss was Sam, my Pleco. I moved from Ohio to Charlotte. Sam was in the car with me the whole way in "his" cooler with his water. All was good here until that first water change. He was in suspended animation- nearly frozen during an Ohio blizzard, in a national diaster (flood) evacuation, no power, the whole mess, and then a 9 hour car ride. Was a real trooper and then I changed 25% of his water and BAM! Ick, then death.
sypher said:the male had no marks on him so had to be something else... what it was i have no clue... very strange...
Ouch..it hurts to lose a fish that size.. Nice Avatar BTW..
missyb0o said:my biggest fish loss was Sam, my Pleco. I moved from Ohio to Charlotte. Sam was in the car with me the whole way in "his" cooler with his water. All was good here until that first water change. He was in suspended animation- nearly frozen during an Ohio blizzard, in a national diaster (flood) evacuation, no power, the whole mess, and then a 9 hour car ride. Was a real trooper and then I changed 25% of his water and BAM! Ick, then death.
Sorry about your pleco.... what did you use to try to cure the ich ??
rid-ich and a little coppersafe. it was very accelerated. he died in like 3 days. covered from nose to tail.
was the temp of the new water much different from the temp of the old water? was the water dechlorinated/dechloramined?missyb0o said:my biggest fish loss was Sam, my Pleco. I moved from Ohio to Charlotte. Sam was in the car with me the whole way in "his" cooler with his water. All was good here until that first water change. He was in suspended animation- nearly frozen during an Ohio blizzard, in a national diaster (flood) evacuation, no power, the whole mess, and then a 9 hour car ride. Was a real trooper and then I changed 25% of his water and BAM! Ick, then death.
