I just lost my 8" Black Diamond Rhom

[Mystus Redtail]

I'm very sad to say that I came home tonight to find my 8" Brazilian Black Diamond Rhom dead. He was really wonderful and just getting into finger chasing. The last time I checked on him was Saturday. He was swimming fine and eating well. Then tonight I found him dead, badly decomposed, I imagine the 80F water aided in that. For this reason I have no postmortem pictures of him. He's gone now.

He was alone in a 125. Plenty of filtration and good food. I don't know what killed him, I treated him about 6 months ago for internal parasites. It seems as though it was just one of those things that happens.

I still have my smaller one, perhaps I'll upgrade him to the 125 after a few water changes, maybe I'll go a different direction...

 

[poly-nomial]

Weird! Maybe you sprayed some dangerous chemical near the tank?

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

I know it doesn't change anything but i'm sorry to hear

 

[Mystus Redtail]

I know it doesn't change anything but i'm sorry to hear

I appreciate it.

 

[Mystus Redtail]

I did a massive (almost 50%) water change on the tank. Then as I was refilling I added melafix, pimafix, and coppersafe. It's probably an over-reaction, but I feel better just knowing that anything that might have been in the water is eliminated.

He will be missed.

 

[jp80911]

sorry bro...that sux

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

Do you have any pics of it?

 

[Fishermoe14]

i only see fish decompose quickly when the heater malfunctions and is too high for too long... 80F isn't gonna do anything to a rhom thou..

sorry for your loss

 

[Angler]

Sorry for you loss man.

 

[Mystus Redtail]

i only see fish decompose quickly when the heater malfunctions and is too high for too long... 80F isn't gonna do anything to a rhom thou..

sorry for your loss

I was surprised myself, for having just watched him swim around healthy as can be saturday, and tonight he was covered with white, like he'd been there like that for a week. He was extremely buoyant, when I found him he was stuck behind a filter intake tube and when I pushed him free of that he shot right to the top of the tank. I haven't seen a fish decompose so quickly. There was a scrape on part of his lower jaw that I noticed too, but there's no way for me to know if that happened before or after he died.