Dead fire eel pictures

[Yellow_Perch]

i dont know whats worse the fish dying or you doing a autopsy..it was a beauty..

 

[Laticauda]

i dont know whats worse the fish dying or you doing a autopsy..it was a beauty..

It's common practice to do a necropsy on a dead fish. It's not like he euthanized her to cut her open. Valuable information was gained from the necropsy.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Valuable information was gained from the necropsy.

makes me hungry too.

Sorry for your loss there

 

[killerfish]

yeah those worms stood out right away spiny eels are all wild caught as far as i know which exposes them to all sort of natural parasites without a microscope you can miss a ton of stuff so its hard to say if there the only factor of its death or even a factor

where the worms moving ?

Also that eel has alot of meat on it wounder what they taste like

 

[SumoNinja]

is that measuring tape in inches??? can't be

what a beauty, too bad

 

[dragonsong]

I'm gonna bump this because my baby tiretrack eel recently died at 4" suddenly...was laying on his side breathing heavy for two days before passing no marks or anything on the outside. Decided to do a necropsy and everything looked a lot 'cleaner' than the pix, no fat deposits or anything but I did notice some red blobs kinda like little pieces of jello about this big -- in the upper regions. It wasn't the heart and there were several of them, no pix I know dumb but he was so tiny and it was real hard to see what was going on.

What do you think it was?

 

[AnaB]

Mine died today it was about 8inches or maybe a little more. Had the same symptoms as the above post.
I thought maybe i killed it by feeding it too much. I also did an autopsy and found two pebbles in its esophagus near what i believe to be the lung. Opened up the stomach and food appeared to be well digested. Next time im getting fine sand for substrate.

 

[AnaB]

And this was his home...

 

[NixMix]

My new fire eel (14") was brought home and less than two days it was dead. The whole time it had labored breathing. The shipping box was crushed and I attribute that to its eventual demise. I was really down about it especially because I was so excited to finally have one of my dream fish.

Trying again, but this time with a locally found tire track eel so no shipping will be required.

 

[yargnits]

i used to have a huge fire eel over 2ft. i was in hospital for a while and the pearson who fed my fish left the tank slides slightly open and when i got back it was dried out behind the tanks .

sorry for your losses.