RTC are my downfall......

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rottbo

rottbo

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Everytime I get them in something major happens and I lose fish..... ones that actually matter to me.... I get a bit upset about losing any fish but these have all been ones that make me crazy to lose... The first set of big rtcs that I had come in a week later my pump seized up and I had a huge amonia spike come home to cloudy water two dead rtcs and a dead silver aro (26") then this time I get one in all my heating fails and I lose one rtc and all 6 motoros... I have decided that if I will never own and RTC again!!!!!! (well if I do it will be in a pond by itself cause I really love the look of this fish)......
 
That sucks man, what a bummer.
 
dont say that man, rtc's are dope. you just have bad timing or it was a couinsidence?(sp). there massive body size is a must to have man. dont give up on such a great species. i hate that you lost all them beautiful motoros. that musta been a ****** to clear out and jus toss away :( but dont let it kill u. we live, we learn.
 
Sorry for the loss, man you must have been upset. what bad luck. You are making me want to run out and get an extra pump to have running as a back up in case the main goes. Like ethnics said, dont let those set backs make you give up on such a beauty.
 
Sorry for your losses man that freakin sucks!! Same thing happened to me a while back the filter failed and all my fish died tsn, rtc,dat,freshwater stonefish,pike....So just get started again and go for it!!! GL
 
Like all the rest, i'm very sorry to hear about your losses. These things do happen, and always to the fish we love the most. Give it a day or so and you'll be thinking about your next batch of fish. Thats what we do. Good luck and NEVER give up.



bob
 
two years ago I lost, in one night, 3 huge silvers, 1 jardini and 2 asians, apart from mnor fish, due to a pump failure...I had to start all over again.. my wife still remembers my face when i walked into the bedroom and told her what I just had seen in the fish room...you will get over it..
 
feeling your pain. I recently lost 3 of my largest catfish due to the incompetence of a stupid landlord, and a powersurge outtage?
 
Like everybody else, sorry to hear that, One day I stayed up all day movin around 4 tanks. And when I passed out I was down for the count. Everything was on and running but I didn't put the lids back on the koi tank and somebody splashed water out of the tank and on the 6-way, everything was plugged into. It shut off, thankfully instead of something worse, but all 3 albino channel cats that I got up to a foot apiece were lost that day. We live we learn, we still get more fish, that's just the way it goes. That's why we are Monster Fish Keepers.
 
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