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

[toolbox31]

I know this is common but it bothered me a little. I had a guppy get some kind of internal infection that swelled the body making all the scales stick out like a pine cone.
It hung in there for a while like that too but at that point treatments didn't do much.

 

[theunytedone]

seeing my thai silk flowerhorn kill a guppy but not eat it because it was too big.
that was gruesome.

fish getting sucked up the pipe are always gruesome too...

and a very old arowana dying from anchorworm and lice.

 

[L021]

What a cheery thread...
Hm, maybe either the half-pleco-devoured angelfish or the last of my pictus catfish. Euthanasia certainly makes for gruesomeness

 

[L021]

Actually, My kenyi recently topped this by attacking my auratus. He died quickly... I had a lot of cleanup...

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

I can only think of two that would be brutal.

I had 2 Gouramis and then 2 Albino Cories sucked into my Whisper 20 (I couldn't fine the strainer tube for it). The Cories made it all the way through to the bigger cartridge area and survived. This was in December, and they're in my 55 schooling about!

In my 55, I have 12 Cardinal Tetras and then two female Bolivian Rams mixed in with 6 white clouds, 1 Rubberlip Pleco, 3 Raphaels, 7 Yo-Yo Loaches, 2 Otos, and 2 Peppered Cories (Don't worry, I have 2 XP3s, 1 Aqueon 55, 2217, and an 80 gallon sponge filter, along with a ton of plants).

The Tetras are all missing their left eye. No nipping going on, just the left eye missing on each one of them. I'm assuming it's the Rams, but it could be the Loaches.

 

[H.M]

haha

 

[Dark Jester]

The Tetras are all missing their left eye. No nipping going on, just the left eye missing on each one of them. I'm assuming it's the Rams, but it could be the Loaches.

That's definately a weird one. I can just see a Ram sitting there and a Tetra glances over..

Ram: "Don't look at me, striper. I'll eat your left eye.."
Tetra: "Wha.. my left eye?"
Ram: "Yep. Ask your buddies. They all looked at me too."
Tetra: "Sheesh, alright.. But can I ask, why the left eye?"
Ram: "I don't know.. It keeps the Human guessing, and has a certian Serial Killer vibe to it.. Now look away, or else..."

 

[Mudslinger14]

It wasn't that gross.
But I had a smallish tiger barb that got its eye eaten out (while it was alive) and then it kind of got really disorientated and got stuck to the filter.

I put him in a breeder box thing that hangs on the side of the tank for the night and in the morning he was free swimming. Then he died a couple days later, I thought he was going to make it

 

[theunytedone]

i had a red tail shark that was missing one eye...i dont know if i bought it like that or not

 

[Push]

Ugh, I've had a few.

Favorite 4-line pictus ate too much and it's stomach exploded. Bumblebee cat that met it's maker prematurely via Mr. Python the vacuum.

The one however that sticks out in my mind however is the damn Marbled Goby. Let me preface this for you, I bought the stupid thing at around 5-6 inches. It was like a plague on my tank for the longest time. It ate pretty much anything I tried to add to the tank AFTER he was introduced. I kept him until he was about 10 inches. I had had enough with him, my friend had my Esox Niger (Chain Pickerel) who had gotten too large for me to house him for the time being. I tried to give the goby away, tried everything, even paying for someone to give him a good home, no dice. So I said eff it and decided to feed him to my Pickerel.

Everything went typical, we acclimated him into the tank, he sat there at the bottom for 2-3 minutes before the chain started to creep up on him. Then it happened, WHAM the Pick T-boned the poor thing, he then proceeded to just hold him in his mouth for a good 5-10 mins before trying to swallow him. He just swam around with him sideways in his mouth. I can't imagine how bad that could have been as the Picks teeth were quite large.