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

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Had two Dwarf Gouramis get lesions that appeared to eat its way through both of them. It got to a stage where I could peer through their bodies and see out the other side...poor gits.

Jay
 
BlackShark11k;4252485; said:
Swim bladder disorder does nasty, nasty things.
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Definitely agreed. Just lost a mono last night from SBD.
 
Worst case scenario i could think of that happened to me was when i woke up one morning to an almost 24" dried up fire eel on the floor near my kitchen door... needless to say that little area of the floor smelt quite funky till i gave it a really good scrub...
 
Beheaded by filter impeller. Jumped out and dried to a crisp. Actually had a rock formation topple and squash an African that was digging under the rocks.
My wife froze a mystery snail I had. She put a icepack in the tank for me and the poor guy was apparently "cleaning" it when she removed it to the freezer. Sad.
 
The fist time i had the unfortunate situation of euthanizing a fish : it was a vieja synspilum severely beat up by a blackbelt..almost all the scales were gone...looked up online and went to the previous fish forum i go to and asked for advise..they all voted for dumping into a bucket of water with a lot of ice..bad bad advise...did it..fish was motionless after probably 10 minutes..got him out,placed him in the trash can..several minutes later,i heard thrashing..fish is alive!!! now im really conscience stricken..took the poor fish and put it together with a tank i had for aussie rainbows..fish lying on his side..eyes all white..etc...tough fish it actually survived!!!
sad thing is..i really dont have a place for it..tried to trade/sell/even give away ,but no takers ( he actually recovered and had his colors/fins/tail/eyes back to normal again..)..
so i had to do the inevitable..but this time i did it in a very quick and hopefully painless way..i even anesthetized it first..
 
likestofish;4252497; said:
I accidentally stepped on a danio that jumped. Also had a black moor get its eyes popped off and eaten.
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LOL, you jerk! :eek:

But i bought a catfish to put in my cichlid community tank, and some of the cichlids didnt like him :(. He was fine at first untill he approached a few of the males. So after he was pretty beaten up, I put him in my baby predator tank for a little chance of surviving. Since they already ate and had some minnows on the surface, I thought he should be good. WRONG! After 20 minutes of sizing the catfish up, a bass ate him :(:(:(:( Rest in piece little buddy.
 
I was trying to find a new male for my favorite convict cichlid female after her mate died. The first I tried she just didn't like, so when I checked on them half an hour after I put him in, he was floating at the top, with no fins or eyes. She must have been really determined because they were in a 55 gallon tank with many hiding places.
 
KittyKatFish100;4253377; said:
I have a very very sad and horrible story. I had always wanted to get a pleco, I think they're super kool looking. One day I went to a fish place that I had never been to just to look around. They had so many plecos and big ones, I begged and was able to get one. I had asked the lady that worked there if the pleco would be safe from my big bullhead catfish and she said yes. Well I took it home and put it in my tank with the bullhead, still not quite sure on if the pleco was safe. Everything was fine for about a week, then I noticed the bullhead had some white marks on it, and naively I ignored it. One day I went down quietly to see the pleco because he would hide if he saw me and I saw him sucking on the catfish! The scarring on the fish had turned to open wounds and I quickly took out the pleco. The bullhead looked bad but he looked saveable. I got some meds and put them in but the next day he looked 10x worse. He had loose red skin hanging off of him all over the place. I still tried to save him though because I really loved that fish but he got so bad that you could see the bones in his tail. I found him floating in the tank one morning and I was devastated. I had never thought that the pleco would've been the killer, and I think back to that lady who said they'd be fine together but I cant help but feel a little resentment as well as total gut renching guilt...
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In all fairness the pleco was perfectly safe.





My most painful loss for the animal was a flower shrimp. He had a great little hiding spot that he rarely ever left cute little guy. I was in a dorm at the time so I only had a 10 gallon tank as it was the max allowed. I had an ammonia spike as I was still new to the hobby. I moved him to a friends tank for a few min while I adjusted the issue along with a few other fish. My firends tank contained a small figue 8...

Yea stupid stupid stupid. So I saved it with a few legs missing and tried to save it. But the legs lost were the food collection webs so it starved. Stupid stupid stupid.


Lesson learned don't be an idiot.
 
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