What's the most grusome death one of your fish has suffered?

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I have a few about HOB filters.

Had a marble hatchet fish when I was younger. I just finished doing a water change and I was refilling the filter up with the water from the tank. I scooped him up and threw him in the filter. Didn't even know it. I looked in the tank and saw he was gone, looked in the filter and there he was. Lucky for him I didn't turn the filter back on. So he lived, but he jumped out of the tank and became a crisp. Stupid fish.

Intake tube fell off my Aquaclear 110. How that happened I don't know. Sucked my large platinum angel up there. I pulled her out but she was messed up bad. I euthanized her.

Intake tube fell off my Penguin 350. Probably by my large tinfoil. White skirt tetra got sucked up in there. I noticed it went missing but I assumed the barb ate it. I was cleaning out the filter because the flow was slow. Surely enough, there that fish (or what was left of it) was. Wrapped around the propeller inside the filter. I couldn't even begin to imagine that kind of death.. I hope he went fast..

Lets see, what else..

Jade goby jumped out of his holding tank. Became a crisp. Boy was I livid on that one.

Electric blue crayfish molted. Was ripped to pieces by a swarm of africans.

Large Black Moor ate my ottocat.

Striped Pike ate a large BN pleco. It killed him.

Had a pond in my backyard in New York with 24 large koi in it. We had a very very rough winter with a lot of snow. Snow covered the heaters. No gas exchange so we lost 22 of them as well as 3 catfish and several turtles. Only survivors were a large goldfish and an ugly koi. As well as 2 red eared sliders. I broke the ice open and being that I worked pet retail I knew that smell as soon as it hit me. Some of those fish were almost 10 years old. Devastating.

A few stories from my retail life.

I was cleaning betta bowls one day. Wasnt paying attention and there was a fish still in one of them. I ran him under hot water. I flipped out and ran and threw him in one of the tanks. Not paying attention (again) I threw him in the tank with a RTC. Yeah.. he ate him.

Same RTC, (larger now) ate a $25 panda parrot.

Large green terror, came in. Beautiful fish. My manager was very dead set on feeding the larger fish goldfish every day. Well it took its toll on that green terror. He developed HitH, a fungus, his eye started to pop out, as well as having an extremely large bite mark in his side. He lived for a few weeks than died. Kinda sad..

Medicated a tank of large Geos. They all died.

Large FL gar made the leap of faith. Died.

Yeah quite a bit honestly.
 
I orderd a 300buck dorado silver catfish..well I got it aclimated and put it in to the tank and went to wash my hands and when I was back my rtc had hlaf of his body in his mouth...guess he couldnt swallow couse of the tail...I tried to rescue him but didnt let go. So when I woke up the next morning the rtc was chocked to death so thats two of my favs dead.
I also orderd a paddlefish which was quite difficult here in korea but he had no eyes and had this wierd fungus thing all over him and his snout was all bloody messed up but the water perms were fine. So thats another death of a decent fish


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I had a huge 9 inch comet goldfish I thought could live temporarily with a 2 inch flowerhorn........ the flowerhorn chewed him up and got one of his eyes, I put him in another tank and he was recovering real well and then got very sick and slowly died through about 3 days.I was thinking I should maybe put him out of his misery but I thought he might make it.:(
 
Way back in the days of the smaller tank I had an Oscar, lonely guy thought I'd get him a friend. Popped down to the local shop and spotted a rather belligerent red devil cichlid. Figured he looked a similar size and would make the perfect chum for my little Oscar. (before the days when I did actual research on the fish I introduced to the tank) Lasted about a week before I came home and found the new guy munching on the poor Oscar. Wasn't much left of him in the end fins, head, bit of a spine.
 
I bought two 7 inch dojo loaches and put them in my upperjaw bichir tank. They were larger than the smallest bichirs in there which was a short bodied delhezi and a 5 inch mokelembembe. A few days off everyone seemed like pals. Then one day i just found the dojo loach being swallowed by the delhezi.....who was short bodied......and only 4 inches....i didnt expect that since even my 12 inch palmas palmas was ignoring everyone and acting all high and mighty in the tank
 
So, I had several tanks at the time- one of which is a breeding tank, one containing rather large chiclids and one containing a sizeable gar and small red tail catfish. I impulse bought some fish and got home remembering that I would need to relocate my chiclid (he would tear the fish to shreds). I decided to set up a temporary holding tank for him- realizing how I did not think anything through, but until it was prepared I assumed he was large enough to last the two minutes in the gar + cat tank. Honestly I was more worried about my gar getting his eyes pecked out more than anything. At this point I will reiterate that I should have thought it through and just got a bucket for him, but I was in a rush. As I was setting up the tank, my friend dropped the chiclid in followed by an immediate "OH MY...." which was due to the gar biting into him on entry. The fish survived because the catfish tried to eat it out of the gar's mouth and he escaped in the struggle. The fish somehow was pretty strong but before I could get him out he was swallowed by the catfish. Pretty dull ending, right? NO! The chiclid swam out of the catfishes mouth. I swear. At this point I was debating between mercy and euthanasia due to how insane this situation was. Well the chiclid immediately was bitten again by the gar and still survived. Unfortunately, this left him with no stamina and he slowly awaited death in the corner before the catfish ate him. The worse part? That chiclid was one of my earliest fish. All because of hubris and impatience.
 
Everyone said the loaches are fast, really fast. So I had yoyos and one schistura loach with my Channa (snakehead). They were all fine and the channa didn't seem to bother them. Once I saw this loach schistura wriggling in the channas mouth. Damn he had crushed him and swallowed him even though the loach is twice as fast as channa. I hate giving live feed to fish and was feeling terribly bad for the loach.

Lesson learnt: never trust a snakehead.
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Cheers,

Karthik


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