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

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I feel much more guilty about a fish escaping than other unavoidable deaths. I had my tank sealed up pretty tight tho, and my tiretrack still managed to escape.
 
I came back to a headless CAE sticking to the side of the tank by its mouth -no more tankmates for the oscar after that. I've also had a red tailed shark get stuck in a rock with a hole through it and cannabalistic tiger barbs.
 
I just yesterday found some bones in the bottom of one of my tanks and I don't know what they came from. The tank has been set up for a long time and has been used as quarantine, to house feeders, and as a tank all its own. Still, pretty bad.
 
Probably not too good for air exchange if your tank is sealed up too tight. There has to be some gaps or your fish would suffocate.
 
Probably not too good for air exchange if your tank is sealed up too tight. There has to be some gaps or your fish would suffocate.
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I was afraid of that, too. Turns out that even a small HOB or some surface movement in a sump is plenty because it is always happening. CO2 doesn't have time to accumulate in any significant amount. My 55g is somewhat tightly sealed but has two HOB's. The plastic trim is cut to pretty much touch the waterfalls and nothing wider than 1/4" would be able to get out. All is well.
 
I have had jumpers. My parents found an Amano Shrimp under my bed. My last Amano dissapeared last July...



I'm starting to get freaked out by this thread...
 
Let me explain before everyone jumps on me over this...some of the predatory saltwater fish have a hard time switching over to prepared foods, or eating at all. Generally if you throw a feeder goldfish in there, they will go after and eat it. I progress to holding the goldfish in a pair of yellow tweezers, and they will go after that, and then I switch to shrimp and silversides and whatever.

I had a dogface puffer at work that wouldn't eat prepared at first (and he was skinny). Wow..those poor goldfish...he would literally bite their heads off and they would still swim around. Sometimes he would chomp them in half and both ends would go off swimming. Or bite off everything except the head and pectoral fin and off the head goes... somewhat amusing, but I felt really bad for them.

Oh..and I turned on the lights in the morning once to find a goldfish had jumped into the cray tank (despite jumper guards) and like four crays had started eating this thing from all ends, and it was still alive. Ouch.
 
knifegill;4309819; said:
I was afraid of that, too. Turns out that even a small HOB or some surface movement in a sump is plenty because it is always happening. CO2 doesn't have time to accumulate in any significant amount. My 55g is somewhat tightly sealed but has two HOB's. The plastic trim is cut to pretty much touch the waterfalls and nothing wider than 1/4" would be able to get out. All is well.
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So it's OK to essentially saranwrap your tank except for the tiny gaps where a HOB filter or two are located? I was always to scared to make it super tight.
 
So it's OK to essentially saranwrap your tank except for the tiny gaps where a HOB filter or two are located? I was always to scared to make it super tight.
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That's pretty much what my tanks look like, but with glass lids and those plastic trim pieces. I am also a chronic understocker. You can always try it tighter and watch your fish closely. They'll shoot for the surface to breathe if it goes bad you'll have time to correct it.
 
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