Weirdest fish deaths

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Well..after that death and rebirth thing..my Pleco finally kicked the bucket along with my angleuploadfromtaptalk1360309445361.jpg

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I had a small 4" Lima Shovelnose about 6 years ago. Some how it got it under my undergravel filter an it must have gotten sucked up one of the tubes by one of the powerheads. By the time I found him his body was his body was decomposing an chunks of his body were being sucked through an shot out of the powerhead. It was nasty.


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@mike..
Yea that always sucks..lol.it turns into a fish flinger

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Miguel said:
Countless sories. I do not even qualify as weird jumping aros.

But Bichirs getting suck in cannisters water intakes, a monstrous jaguar acclimates and directly into an Rtc's belly, and so on and so on. A clown loach lost for. Months inside a Eheim cannister and alive. A baby dat inside the large intake hose of a 2250 for 2 days and alive....

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did the clown loach eat muck from the canister? i would think so... that is the second weirdest survival story ever. the first is I heard an african cichlid lived outside in englendd for a few months beavcause it was really rainy and wet...
 
That happened for one of my rummynose tetras. I wondered why my draining was taking so long then I started to look into the problem. Apparently the tetra got caught in the suction and ended up at the very end of the valve in the Python. I never even saw it happen or knew it happened. I had to completely undo the valve portion to get to the poor fish. It was apparently dead for so long it turned into jerky. I felt so bad about that. I could have saved it if I had seen it happen.

Another time I had a clown loach (the biggest one I've had yet - 8") swim randomly darting around the tank for no reason. I was watching him splash around the tank making a big deal and all of a sudden in one split second, he is dead sinking to the bottom of the tank.

ANOTHER time... I had a couple HOB filters in my 20g. A couple times one or two kuhli loaches got curious and was sucked into the filter housing. Surprisingly, it survived each time.

A different clown loach, which was very small, found a nice little hole in my resin driftwood and decided to move in. I knew it was in there but I also knew it was most likely stuck. After much shaking and many attempts to get it to come out, I decided to go ahead and find a way to get him out myself. I set the whole decor on a towel on the floor and set to work with a hammer. lol I ended up breaking a $50 piece of decor (which now I refuse to use any resin or hollow item) but saved the loach.

Inglorious said:
I was doing my weekly WC and eventually noticed that it was taking a lot longer to drain the tank than normal. After checking the sink I realized that there wasn't any water draining even though the vac was submerged. Closer inspection revealed that one of my white labs actually swam up the vac tube and got itself stuck against the hose. By the time I realized what happened there was nothing I could do for it.
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when was 7 years old i had a 7in. golden algae eater that stuck him self to the top of the tank lid then scooted his way to the filter where he shoved his head in to the filter and apparently had killed him self by decapitating him self in the filter and to since that day i have golden algae eater: emo algae eaters... no joke
 
oh and i also had 2 suncats use a 8in. peacock eel as a tug of war rope it was the most gruesome thing i ever saw...:nilly:
 
about 8 years ago I had a jardini (about 11 inches, give or take an inch) in my 150. I came home from a weekend vacation to find my tank completely drained, my canister filter almost ready to burn up, and the jardini nice and dead on the barely wet substrate on the bottom of the tank. The return hose from the filter had unsuctioned itself from the tank and was up against the floor behind the tank. Well, the filter continued to do its job and sucked all of the water out of the tank and returned it to the floor.....I am thinking that the jardini probably had some part in knocking it off. all in all, a horrible end to a great weekend (also the last arrow I have ever owned)
 
For me would be Thai plakat jumped off the tank and live outside the tank on ground for 6 hours, when i came back i found it still alive and it was dead after 1 hour.
 
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