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

[knifegill]

I think the key is limited feeding: he got 3-4 pellets of Atison's betta food, 2x/day during the week . . . no food on weekends or holidays . . . never any sign of dropsy, just a normal healthy fish

Definitely a big part of the picture. And since I've never seen any of my bettas get skinny, maybe I should give that a shot. I thought I was restricting their eating well enough, but it's been a long time so I might have been nº0b feeding back then. Thx.

Whew. Looks like Jenny Craig got here just in time!

 

[_Jessica_]

Ohh dropsy is pretty gross...I hate seeing bettas with it .

A few weeks ago I had a serious columnaris problem in the goldfish system at work (Marineland systems should be banned, btw). This has happened twice now...first the tuffies come in, and they start dropping like flies. They just rot away and leave all these white pieces of flesh (usually all dead, very quickly). Then in a few hours...you see the other fish in the system with their tails starting to erode, a white film over their bodies, pieces of white stuff hanging off their eyeballs. Come back the next day and everything is dead or on it's way out. Small example:

Pretty gruesome to me...it just happens so fast.

 

[Experiment397]

i had a dragon goby that got speared by a pictus pim catfish's fin barb, the pictus swam around for severel minutes before the dragon goby wiggled off. when the goby wiggled off he pulled some of his guts throught the hole the pictus's spine made and swam around with his guts hanging out. the clown knife then came by and took a bite of the guts and it was by by goby...

 

[Pazzoman]

My gruesome stories happened dead in front of me literally.... Let
s start off with, I have a 72 Gallon Bowfroont Saltwater tank. In thier I have a little clown fish, a snow flake eel, six line wrasse etc. Well I passed by my tank talking to my friend on the phone, I look at my clown going up to the glass and looking at me. It seemed he was being very playfull, then I realized that my eel who I thought was in the rocks was slowly creeping up behind him. I was like "S++t I hate nature." Then my clown turned around and on insticts my eel had a $40 dinner.....

Then my new fish that I really like was a Six Line Wrasse. He looked awsome, but I was worried how my eel would think. Well after about a week of placing the wrasse in my tank, I once again was talking to my friend and see something odd. I coudn't find my wrasse and I see my eel with his head sticking out of the rocks opening his mounth and closing
(normal). Well the eel was in the cave and then the wrasse came out randomly from the same cave and laied next to the eel. Almost like insticts the eel maid a swift right. grabbed the wrasse and went into the cave. I was so piss, I went to save the wrasse, lifted the rock and I see my eel performing a death roll on the wrasse's head......

Nature Sucks In The Home Aquarium!

 

[KittyKatFish100]

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...

 

[cuban jey]

i had a hammerhead catfish that got skinned alive by a pair of basketmouth cichlids. the poor thing looked like one of those inside out science museum exhibits

 

[wolffishlover]

my rocket gar broke his nose and jumped while i was a school and died

 

[AroVVana4392]

i had to watch a sliver arowana that i nursed back to health. die. and im not sure why. Ph, and amonia were fine. now im looking for another one... what was sad was my grey bichr pushed his corpse a lil then look at me as too say "mind moving him, he smells"

 

[MChorse13]

the worst death is one you could have prevented last night when i was going to sleep i thought i saw two of my rams fighting but i dismissed it. i turned off the light and when i woke up i couldn't find one anywhere i have four. finally found him behind a fake plant all beat up few minutes later he was dead had the best coloration out of any of my rams to he will be missed greatly :/

 

[mynheers_a_pint]

If it was predation I'd understand but the bugger didn't even eat it, it just swam around with it in his mouth until it was dead. 16" Wolf, 9-10" Geophagus.

Just to add, the above was 4am and i awoke pretty much to that picture- it was still alive but barely so i 'hoped' it would be eaten. But no.