What is Wrong with Me?

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I am having the worst luck (and stupidity) w/ my baby endlis. A friend alerted me that one of our LFS had some baby endlis and dels in and he didn't have a place to put one, so I got myself one of each and him an endli that I was going to raise up for him until he had a place for it. Well, who would have thought that I would have gone through 3 morts? The first one died trying to eat a CL...you can see how that ended up. The LFS gave me half credit for it, which he also reimbursed me for.The second one I screwed up and forgot to plug the heater back in (should've had a back-up in there...stupid) and, consequently, the only fish that died was the endli I had just replaced the first one with. I felt really bad after the second one died, so I bought him another one. Fast forward to yesterday morning and everything was fine. He PM'd me asking how they were and I said they were doing fine. Then, I went downstairs to feed them and the original one that I bought that was left was laying upside down on the bottom of the tank dead.

Is this just bad luck or bad fish keeping? I can't figure out what's going on and I have never had near this much trouble keeping fish. I haven't had any other fish die in quite some time. The water parameters were 0/0/5, there were no signs of it being picked on, malnourished, diseased or anything like that. At this point, IDK what I'm going to do. I think I'm just going to tell him to take the one that's alive while he still can...before I kill that one, too and I'll look for a bigger one.

Thanks for letting me vent.
 
sounds like a mix of bad luck and bad fishkeeping

keeping a bichir with somethign that could possibly fit in its mouth can be considered bad fishkeeping. but its kind of bad luck when you consider it was a clown loach that was too small and that never ends well

forgetting to put the heater in is bad fishkeeping.... but bichirs are not that sensitive. how cold di the tank get?
 
Thats tough luck, I wouldnt call it bad fishkeeping at all. Sometimes there are fish 3-4x smaller than another and nothing happens. People forget things sometimes and thats just the way it is. If we didnt we would be perfect and fish wouldnt die from our forgetfullness. The last one to die may have been because of a parasite etc etc etc... Keep your head up as losing fish is just as big of a part of the hobby as getting new ones and showing them off on sites like these. :)
 
Thanks. I'm a little depressed, but I'll get over it. I'll be really sick if I lose the baby black aro I'm getting on Tuesday. I wouldn't call leaving the heater unplugged bad fishkeeping, just being stupid. From now on, I am going to have a back-up heater in every tank. I usually have two heaters in my tanks, but not always. I never really did that because I never had a problem, but anyway. I was so busy trying to do too many things at once in a rush. The CL was too big for it to eat, anyway (or so i thought?), but that was an oversite. It's not as big of a deal losing my own fish, but when I'm trying to keep one for someone else and it keeps dying, that's what really bugs me.

dbcb314;1652976; said:
sounds like a mix of bad luck and bad fishkeeping

keeping a bichir with somethign that could possibly fit in its mouth can be considered bad fishkeeping. but its kind of bad luck when you consider it was a clown loach that was too small and that never ends well

forgetting to put the heater in is bad fishkeeping.... but bichirs are not that sensitive. how cold di the tank get?
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I just wasn't thinking about the CL and didn't think it could eat anything in there, let alone even get the CL in its mouth (the tail was sticking out). It got down to probably 68 (it's in the basement). The water getting too cold is the only thing I can think of because I couldn't see signs of anything else (just like this last one). I mean, it could be something inherently wrong with the shipment of endlis they got and they both could have died of the same thing, i guess...IDK.

On the bright side, the new endli looks like it may be a short body or semi-short body
 
moonchild1970;1653257; said:
Is there a possiblity that you are getting sick fish from your LFS? Could that be it?
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I kind of touched on that at the end of my last post. The dels were not in the same tank as the endlis. The endli tank also had albino sens. However, they've had them for a few weeks now and there's quite a few left, so I doubt that's it.
 
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