Goodbye Mr. Fire Eel (RIP)

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Sucks, it does seem like fire eels have a habit of dropping dead. My last one was fine one evening, ate shrimp as usual, got home from work the following day and it was dead, no marks or anything. It was 480mm IIRC.

Sorry for your loss, they do become a true pet after a while.

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David R said:
Sucks, it does seem like fire eels have a habit of dropping dead. My last one was fine one evening, ate shrimp as usual, got home from work the following day and it was dead, no marks or anything. It was 480mm IIRC.

Sorry for your loss, they do become a true pet after a while.

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Thanks. They do become part of the family after a while.
 
I wonder if thiamine could have been the culprit from feeding prawns?


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Well, its been said i think that prawns contain a higher amount of thiamine or something like that which can cause problems in some fish if its the main food item in there diet...

Personally, i'm not sure what the problems are exactly, but im sure someone will be able chime in with some info about that...

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Btw, this is just something im throwin out there as a possibility of what may have caused / contributed to his death...


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I'm terribly sorry for your loss DF. It's always hard to lose a pet you've had for a while, especially when it's an interactive friendly one like your eel seems to have been. :(

Regrettably, I have to move this to eels.
 
Chicxulub said:
I'm terribly sorry for your loss DF. It's always hard to lose a pet you've had for a while, especially when it's an interactive friendly one like your eel seems to have been. :(

Regrettably, I have to move this to eels.
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Thanks. Since it's about a deceased fish and not relating to care of eels specifically is the reason I didn't feel it should be in eels. That and that is a sub forum that gets little traffic at times, but hey, you guys got this down.
 
dragonfish said:
Thanks. Since it's about a deceased fish and not relating to care of eels specifically is the reason I didn't feel it should be in eels. That and that is a sub forum that gets little traffic at times, but hey, you guys got this down.
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I know, I didn't really want to move it. I've moved these types of threads before though, so I can't reverse my policy now that I've set a precedent.

I will now set a new precedent though, I'm gonna start leaving redirects for RIP threads. Your redirect will pop up shortly.
 
Chicxulub said:
I know, I didn't really want to move it. I've moved these types of threads before though, so I can't reverse my policy now that I've set a precedent.

I will now set a new precedent though, I'm gonna start leaving redirects for RIP threads. Your redirect will pop up shortly.
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Thank you.
 
Fat Homer said:
Well, its been said i think that prawns contain a higher amount of thiamine or something like that which can cause problems in some fish if its the main food item in there diet...

Personally, i'm not sure what the problems are exactly, but im sure someone will be able chime in with some info about that...

-edit-

Btw, this is just something im throwin out there as a possibility of what may have caused / contributed to his death...


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One of the main reasons I don't feed my spineys frozen shrimp/prawns ect... I've not had a "random death" since sticking to a near 100% diet of nightcrawlers/blackworms. But I would think the pellets being stuffed would make up for the thiamine's negative impacts... For as many people who keep them... idk anyone who's successfully kept one 10yrs+ or near where their wild life expectancy is? unless the scientific community is wrong as for the majority of spineys life spans.

imo we are missing some "key" vit/min in their diets ect.

Sadly we read these types of threads more often then I think anyone wants too... and by people who are good fishkeepers.
 
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