Just found my tigrinus dead.

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coyotethug

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The problems started over two weeks ago with the tigrinus freaking out swimming around like crazy. I isolated him to see if the commotion in the tank with the rays was freaking him out. It continued to progress to swimming in circles nonstop for a few days. He was running into the aro and the royal clown knife which led to some pretty nasty bites. He got a bacterial infection, then a fungal infection. I removed him to a quarantine tank to treat at the first sign, treated bacterial for over a week, fungus for 6 days. They both went away but he was still on his side and breathing laboriously. It was a 10 gallon and he was 17 inches long so there was no swimming in circles which got him basked up pretty good in the first place. Anyone ever have something like this with a tig. He was doing so well then all of a sudden problems. Had him for 2 years, grew him up from a tiny baby a little over 2 inches long.

What did I do wrong?
 
Man that sucks, sorry to hear.
 
sorry for your loss man
 
so sorry for your loss.
hard to tell ...any new fish introduced to your tank lately ? are all the other tankmates ok ? maybe a ray stung him (doesn't seem likely) ?
 
Sorry that you lost him. I lost a prize pleco last nite.
 
Added a 17 inch endli bichir a week prior to problems. It seemed to me that he either got stung by a ray, the biggest in the tank is about 15 inch disc diameter, or that he hit his head on the glass hard enough to do neurological damage. I have a lot of experience here, bs and ms in Zoology: Zoo and Aquarium Science, 23 years experience, 3 tanks at home (240, 125, 65 breeder) and 60 at the school where I teach marine biology, honors biology, and AP biology including two 2500 gallon outdoor tropical ponds. We breed 12 species of fish regularly and I have seen a lot of fish get sick over the years. Most I was able to fix, or at least figure out what happened. This was just weird to me how it played out. Really makes me sad through, it was my first tig ever and the biggest I have ever seen in person.
 
coyotethug said:
Added a 17 inch endli bichir a week prior to problems. It seemed to me that he either got stung by a ray, the biggest in the tank is about 15 inch disc diameter, or that he hit his head on the glass hard enough to do neurological damage. I have a lot of experience here, bs and ms in Zoology: Zoo and Aquarium Science, 23 years experience, 3 tanks at home (240, 125, 65 breeder) and 60 at the school where I teach marine biology, honors biology, and AP biology including two 2500 gallon outdoor tropical ponds. We breed 12 species of fish regularly and I have seen a lot of fish get sick over the years. Most I was able to fix, or at least figure out what happened. This was just weird to me how it played out. Really makes me sad through, it was my first tig ever and the biggest I have ever seen in person.
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Tigs do smash against the glass when spooked, happened to mine(same size) but all it got was its nose bent. If you think he got stung by a ray, most likely you would be able to see the spot on the tig's body. A sad thing either way.
 
Sad to hear this, sorry for your lost.
 
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