Would you be willing to consider sharing your knowledge and findings with all of us (hopefully in some detail) in the thread I linked?
Piraiba growth update
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I donated him to the Chicago Shedd Aquarium. They had him for about 3.5 months in quarantine then another 45-60 days in a holding tank then they transferred him to be put on display in their 4500 or so gallon Amazon floodplains exhibit and they had put him in the tank at the end of the day when all lights were off and failed to monitor the fish for the first 24 hours to ensure he adapted well with the other tank inhabitants and when they arrived in the morning he was dead..... I raised him since he was about 2" long and was very upset to hear that who I thought would be the most responsible with caring for a fish like this and they ended up killing him because of a common sense error. Very disappointing!!!
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Quite painful.
I won't be of much consolation to you... I "rescue" lots of big fish and it is not that rare that I lose them in transport or much more often in acclimatization. It's an inherent risk of the hobby. I know my peers suffer from the same problems.
I am sure Shedd has solid, experience-based procedures of introducing fish into tanks. Have you inquired why they did it in the dark and at the day's end and what was the cause of death according to their staff/vets?
When a fish is killed overnight, it is either something very wrong with the water (impossible to imagine in a working Shedd display) or an intense tank mate aggression. Was is something with the water or aggression from the tank mates??
I won't be of much consolation to you... I "rescue" lots of big fish and it is not that rare that I lose them in transport or much more often in acclimatization. It's an inherent risk of the hobby. I know my peers suffer from the same problems.
I am sure Shedd has solid, experience-based procedures of introducing fish into tanks. Have you inquired why they did it in the dark and at the day's end and what was the cause of death according to their staff/vets?
When a fish is killed overnight, it is either something very wrong with the water (impossible to imagine in a working Shedd display) or an intense tank mate aggression. Was is something with the water or aggression from the tank mates??
This particular species is highly skittish to tank mates so they believe what had happened was the curiosity of the other fish in the tank made him dart bak and forth and bang into the sides of the enclosure and eventually killed itself from both stress and trauma from hitting its snout on the sides of the enclosure. I just wish I would have been more informative in regards to my personal experiences with this fish and the introduction of other fish and how it reacts to the presence of other fish. I just figured they had that knowledge. Big regret that I can honestly say I will never forget. Really more of just a huge disappointment!
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Yeah, mate.... I'd not expect that from a good size capa either... These are rarely kept even in public aquaria, and I think that even if someone at Shedd, miraculously, had a firsthand experience and knowledge of capapretum, things like these are much more often unpredictable than not. There are so-o-o-o many factors that affect the intro of a new fish.
Sure, I agree, there are tendencies and knowing that a fish is skittish and flighty makes one adjust their procedures, but then life happens and often that skittish fish survives just fine while a non-skittish one may perish. Life's often a gamble and 50-50 happens left and right.
You and Shedd took a gamble and lost. If you took 20 gambles, you'd win 10 or more, I'd think. So, cheer up. In the words of Red Green "Keep your stick on the ice. We are all in this together". I once lost ~300 lbs of large fish in one shot, some rare - most of my prized collection. You cry, pick up the pieces, learn, and move on.
Sure, I agree, there are tendencies and knowing that a fish is skittish and flighty makes one adjust their procedures, but then life happens and often that skittish fish survives just fine while a non-skittish one may perish. Life's often a gamble and 50-50 happens left and right.
You and Shedd took a gamble and lost. If you took 20 gambles, you'd win 10 or more, I'd think. So, cheer up. In the words of Red Green "Keep your stick on the ice. We are all in this together". I once lost ~300 lbs of large fish in one shot, some rare - most of my prized collection. You cry, pick up the pieces, learn, and move on.
