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

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I didn't know at the time but my very friendly personable angelfish (was my favorite :() had a gram positive fungal infection. My mollies were biting him so I out him in a large net at the top of the tank for a few days hoping he'd recover. In three days he was blind, bleeding from his back half, and had slime coat seething off him so I euthanized him with the ice method and buried him under my pool deck.
 
2nd story, my city uses chloramine instead of chlorine in our water supply, and doses it in 1:1 ratios. somehow, it ended up with a 4:1 ratio of ammonia to chlorine, wiped out my community tank (angels, clown loaches, small fronts, rams, etc) and wreaked havoc in my ray tank, causing my male retic (avatar pic) with claspers unrolling to swell up 3 times the size and suffocate/internal organ failure. lost hundreds of dollars of fish, and years of dedication in getting a breeding retic ray pair.
my female ray stopped eating after the death of her mate and allowed herself to literally starve to death.
 
I have a couple of gruesome deaths I wont forget, one, a Clown Trigger, bit a large hole in the side, just above the gut area, of a Mimic Tang and you could see right through the poor thing. It survived for a few days and even resumed eating but the food came straight out of the wound. The second was when I was feeding a 3ft Snowflake Moray a piece of squid and a big Silver Scat approx. 8" stupidly got between the frenzied eel and it's lunch. The usually non fish eating Moray pinned the hapless scat by it's head and proceeded to smash it to jelly against the rocks turning the water pink and then swallowed the lot.
 
This is sort of related, but not a fish.

I work at a petstore, and a woman brought a seagull in a bag last Friday, she said it flew into her window and it had clearly broken it's wing and was suffering.

She wanted me to to kill it to spare it the pain, at first I was reluctant and told her to take it to the vet, but they were too far away and she didn't have a car..... So I bashed the head in with a hammer, I didn't know how to do it correctly, your supposed to hit the back head, but I hit it flat on the side.

It was awful, hopefully it didn't feel a thing, I wrapped the head in a towel first so I didn't have to see the damage.


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ss720 said:
This is sort of related, but not a fish.

I work at a petstore, and a woman brought a seagull in a bag last Friday, she said it flew into her window and it had clearly broken it's wing and was suffering.

She wanted me to to kill it to spare it the pain, at first I was reluctant and told her to take it to the vet, but they were too far away and she didn't have a car..... So I bashed the head in with a hammer, I didn't know how to do it correctly, your supposed to hit the back head, but I hit it flat on the side.

It was awful, hopefully it didn't feel a thing, I wrapped the head in a towel first so I didn't have to see the damage.


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Had a clown knife I had to re home. I got him at 2 inches and he was about 18 inches when I decided he needed a new home. Took him to the all fish emporium because they had a huge (had to be 1200 gallon) display he would be good in. The put him in the holding tank in back to acclimate and forgot about him, dumped him in as they were turning off the lights and leaving. I went in the next day, to find him in a 20 gallon selling tank. His tail was ripped off about 2 inches up, nose ripped off, and beat bloody. I cried, bawling in the store. Lost my calm demeanor, and proceeded to make a scene that drew attention from everyone. About 30 people came and saw what happened, and the manager ended up firing the employee that was so careless. He was torn to shreds. I've never seen a fish torn up like that before or since.

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