Escondido,..R.I.P,..

[Bottomfeeder]

Listen dude (op) you screwed up. But just learn from it and move on. People make mistakes-I put my Minnows in an aerated bucket for 6 hrs, and lost 2 jumpers this week- but as long as you learn from it, if you ask me, all's forgiven.
If the fish really was dying, you prpbably should of euthanized it, not fed it.

 

[chefjamesscott]

but sometimes research does not take into account the aberant personality of certain fish who dont fit the profile i had one fish that was suppose to be able to hold its own in a 55g temp home for a few days and when i got back the next morning the alpha zebra in the tank had managed to destroy this christyi who was easily twice his size and had managed to mess up the other two but i was able to save the two remaining ones

but i would also agree that things happen and not that i plan it but in the world of fish keeping fish eat fish

but on the same note sorry to hear about your loss what does the 3 letter stand for with the fish that ate the victim

 

[HerCrenVie]

I am amazed by how narrow-minded some people can be. There is never only one way to go about doing something. He fed a dying fish to a piranha. What is wrong with that, considering the fish in question was clearly too badly wounded to be salvaged? Does a dying or dead fish always have to be simply destroyed? In a natural environment, that dying Escondido would have been finished off by other predators or scavengers. What would be the point of flushing it down the toilet?

A fish dying of causes apart from disease is better used as food for another animal instead of simply being discarded.

 

[japes]

In a natural environment

Was expecting a comment like this eventually. Have a think about what you've just said in relation to a fish being kept in 4-walled glass box.

 

[HerCrenVie]

Was expecting a comment like this eventually. Have a think about what you've just said in relation to a fish being kept in 4-walled glass box.

One of the objectives of fishkeeping is to replicate conditions in nature as far as possible.

I stand by what I said - A fish dying of causes apart from disease is better used as food for another animal instead of simply being discarded. If you disagree, tell me why.

 

[shamrock]

But it's not the environment-it's in a tank!! I feel bad for the guy and I hope he learns from it-personally, I would have netted it out and bought tons of meds to try to save it no matter how bad it looked.

 

[shamrock]

Not only that if a fish is dieing of disease and gets eaten by that other fish that fish now can get sick and die-that's why a lot of people don't use feeders.

 

[dominicolas]

I am amazed by how narrow-minded some people can be. There is never only one way to go about doing something. He fed a dying fish to a piranha. What is wrong with that, considering the fish in question was clearly too badly wounded to be salvaged? Does a dying or dead fish always have to be simply destroyed? In a natural environment, that dying Escondido would have been finished off by other predators or scavengers. What would be the point of flushing it down the toilet?

A fish dying of causes apart from disease is better used as food for another animal instead of simply being discarded.

Now refresh my memory please. Where in the world do piranah and Escos appear naturally?

 

[orinocensis1]

sorry for the loss

 

[shamrock]

dominicolas-well said.