What's the most grusome death one of your fish has suffered?
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I had a similar experience with people tank sitting. Went to Italy for 3 weeks and left my tank in the care of my dumbass roomate. I came home to find both tanks green (both filters were unplugged and lights had been on for days) and half full. I lost a Carpintis Texas, Green Phantom Pleco, 2 Thread finned Acaras and a Leopard Cactus Pleco.
i wuld have to say my own fish.....i use to have a red tail catfish and ate my 9 inch albino tin foil barb, half his body was gone and my 13 inch pacu ate my pangasius catfish who jumped out.
my flowerhorn ate both of my tea cup stingrays and almost ate my motoro
all my stingrays were double my flowerhorns size....
all my stingrays were double my flowerhorns size....
I have two from work. And I can't decide which is more gruesome.
1. While doing a gravel vac on an Oranda tank [We drain a few, then start filling so the hose follows, to save time], the strainer slipped off while I was swapping the hose, and in literally 15 seconds the poor little goldfish was stuck to the very gravel vac where the tubing meets the actual plastic cylinder, and by the time I noticed and darted back to stop the siphon...there was a very loud pop, the hose filled with orange, and I still stopped the siphon. He fell out, sank to the bottom. His intestines and other various insides were spilling out [not just exposed], and his eye had burst. Worst part? When I went to scoop him out for a quick euthanasia, he tried to swim away. His intestine got stuck on a plastic decoration and was literally, and entirely pulled out. So not only did I have to remove the fish, I had to scoop out his innards from the tank. A four year old witnessed the whole thing. wompwomp. Even though it was an accident I felt so guilty about the fish, that I spent half of my break in meditation apologizing to the fish.
2. I pulled a 'dead' Salvini with both eyes missing while the other fish were still chewing at the sockets. When I removed this fish, it flopped and gasped. Again, still alive. He was prompty euthanized. But that was actually pretty shocking. Never underestimate the sheer brutality of a Salvini.
1. While doing a gravel vac on an Oranda tank [We drain a few, then start filling so the hose follows, to save time], the strainer slipped off while I was swapping the hose, and in literally 15 seconds the poor little goldfish was stuck to the very gravel vac where the tubing meets the actual plastic cylinder, and by the time I noticed and darted back to stop the siphon...there was a very loud pop, the hose filled with orange, and I still stopped the siphon. He fell out, sank to the bottom. His intestines and other various insides were spilling out [not just exposed], and his eye had burst. Worst part? When I went to scoop him out for a quick euthanasia, he tried to swim away. His intestine got stuck on a plastic decoration and was literally, and entirely pulled out. So not only did I have to remove the fish, I had to scoop out his innards from the tank. A four year old witnessed the whole thing. wompwomp. Even though it was an accident I felt so guilty about the fish, that I spent half of my break in meditation apologizing to the fish.
2. I pulled a 'dead' Salvini with both eyes missing while the other fish were still chewing at the sockets. When I removed this fish, it flopped and gasped. Again, still alive. He was prompty euthanized. But that was actually pretty shocking. Never underestimate the sheer brutality of a Salvini.
I have multiple...
1. I was about eight, my first aggressive fish to my edition, bubblegum parrots. I was so excited I forgot that my balloon tetras were screwed. Woke up to all my balloon tetras bellies ripped open and their bodies stuck tithe filter.
2.a few years later I lost my prized bubblegum in a house fire... They survived for a couple of hours after the firefighters retrieved them...
3. New tank new fish, ich outbreak killed my silver arowana, tiger bichir, Senegal bichir, two acei cichlids, on albino pleco ( which I actually revived, he lives to this day I call him lucky), also two black convicts, and lastly my three electric yellows. All I had left was lucky and and half a convict...
1. I was about eight, my first aggressive fish to my edition, bubblegum parrots. I was so excited I forgot that my balloon tetras were screwed. Woke up to all my balloon tetras bellies ripped open and their bodies stuck tithe filter.
2.a few years later I lost my prized bubblegum in a house fire... They survived for a couple of hours after the firefighters retrieved them...
3. New tank new fish, ich outbreak killed my silver arowana, tiger bichir, Senegal bichir, two acei cichlids, on albino pleco ( which I actually revived, he lives to this day I call him lucky), also two black convicts, and lastly my three electric yellows. All I had left was lucky and and half a convict...
127 hours...Fish version, lol
I went to SoCal for the weekend, when I got back my Kamfa Flowerhorn female was gone! Found her hiding in decor Castle, she's all WHITE. Probably got stuck or just hiding but the castle door exposed her side where other fishes ate at it. Big hole eaten out
