RTC are my downfall......

[DeLgAdO]

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.

you know one thing that does bother me (no offense to you or anyone else)

but whenever anyone loses a fish or keeps losing fish and gets the response "dont give up!" to me it sounds like "keep getting them and keep killing them" until your successful or "get lucky"...... STOP!.....JUST KILLING THEM!!!

yanno?

 

[rottbo]

I know what you are saying I am not killing them from bad water or to small of a tank though evertime I get one something major happens the first time it was a pump failure this last time was the heater failure....

 

[DeLgAdO]

I know what you are saying I am not killing them from bad water or to small of a tank though evertime I get one something major happens the first time it was a pump failure this last time was the heater failure....

rottbos the man though

 

[parker21104]

I just found out what it was like to lose A new rtc. I bought a 20" rtc from someone who I should have seen the signs from the broken barbs and lack of energy that it was sick/not taken care of. I got this fish home acclimated just right slow trickle for about 15 minutes and put it in my tank and compared it to my rtc and immidiately noticed the problems. Sure enough the rtc died that night in less than six hours. Go figure I took two large pacu from this guy that I do not really want and they lived and the rtc dies. The money did not bother but the fact that I took a fish into my care and it died bothers me.

 

[rottbo]

thanks man I try but I really just get lucky most the time hahaha..... Del I am glad to see that you still have that big pretty girl in you avatar

 

[DeLgAdO]

thanks man I try but I really just get lucky most the time hahaha..... Del I am glad to see that you still have that big pretty girl in you avatar

she's not pink though

lol

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I'm sorry for your loss, i know what it's like. I had to move one of my tanks urgently and in the night the external stopped working and i lost 5 9 inch parrot cichlids that i had for years. I was so angry but luckily my oscars survived. So every cloud.

 

[fishaddict]

Sorry for your lost, But I don't understand how so many guys loose power or their pump malfunction overnight and they have such huge lost. I've had in the past forgotten to turn the power back on after feeding my fish. And realized the next morning what I did and never lost one fish.IMO. I think if you have the proper filtration creating enough oxigen this could be prevented. Again this is just my opinion and I'm stil sorry for all the loses you guys had.

 

[Redtail_Watcher]

don't give up or don't give into not want to keep one happy and well i lost alot already but i stil have one big one and a baby 6in rtc in a 440g pond.

 

[rottbo]

Sorry for your lost, But I don't understand how so many guys loose power or their pump malfunction overnight and they have such huge lost. I've had in the past forgotten to turn the power back on after feeding my fish. And realized the next morning what I did and never lost one fish.IMO. I think if you have the proper filtration creating enough oxigen this could be prevented. Again this is just my opinion and I'm stil sorry for all the loses you guys had.

OK first time a mag drive pump seized up and I didnt notice for a day there was a huge amonia spike and only three fish died not all of them second time was when we had a small poweroutage somehow the surge protector malfuntioned that all the heaters were plugged into and fried the heaters I only lost my rays and the rtc I over filter my pond but if it goes un noticed with such a huge bio load then the ammonia builds up fast... I have some big poopers in the pond