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

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

my 12" senegal crawled into deco and got stuck. It took plyers to get him out.

It wasnt a main tank, and was in the rabbit room. I was so used to the eel in the tank missing that i didnt notice it was dead untill a few days later

 

[TheFishJunky]

Not a fish but I had a musk turtle get its head stuck up an intake filter on a Rena XP4 because the end strainer fell off and I guess it tried to "take a peak inside".I had to pull its head all the way out of the filter inlet and my daughter was standing behind me(didn't know she was there) so it totally freaked the poor girl out.It's head/neck literally stretched like 7" into the tube.I just had to keep pulling and tugging.It wasn't a very pretty sight at all to me , yet sure wasn't the best thing for her to see happen to her little sisters turtle.

 

[Rayne]

I'm still a bit traumatized but I accidentally killed my poor 5" Senegal last night. He was one of my favorite fish too so it really sucks!

I was doing my weekly WC and was cleaning the sand with my Aqueon Python knock-off. Everything was going fine until I looked away for a few seconds and thats when my Senegal swam out from under a piece of driftwood and RIGHT INTO THE TUBE! He got sucked up so fast that I didn't even know what happened until he was 10 feet down the hose. OMG PANIC!!

I was totally caught off guard and didn't know what to do at the time so I ran over to the sink and shut the valve at the sink, thinking I could just reverse the flow and he'd spit right back out into my tank. I was thinking that ok, this could work. Not a big deal and everything was going to be fine. Ran back over to the tube end and opened that valve part way so he wouldn't come slamming out into the tank. BIG MISTAKE! When he got to the end of the hose close to the valve he of course couldn't fit through the valve and force of the water pushing on him now was extreme to say the least. All of a sudden blood and stuff are shooting out into my tank. I was absolutely horrified and that's when I realized my mistake.

This happened all so fast and I am so mad at myself for making such a dumb mistake and putting my poor Senegal through that. I realize know that I could have done a number of different things to avoid this outcome. Could have shut the water off completely and drained him out of the hose manually, could have slowed the water at tap and opened the end valve completely. ARGGGJHHH!

 

[Dark Jester]

^ Ouch, that sucks. Similar to my little Otto Cat going down the garbage disposal.

I'd rather lose an Otto than a Senegal though.

 

[Rayne]

Yeah after I posted I started reading through this thread and found a few other people have sucked up their fish as well. At least I'm not alone in that. That was a lesson learned the hard way!

 

[knifegill]

I always baby-sit my siphons for this very reason. If I have to walk away, I break the flow and restart when I return. Sucks that you lost a fish like that. I've feared it from the beginning and expect it to happen someday, I just fight it with prepaid vengeance.

 

[hotsauce]

arowana being eaten by tsn x rtc hybrid, and it took the hybrid almost two days to swallow it! exspensive feeder!

 

[Clay]

Several years ago, I almost killed a ray - schroederi (if I recall) in my friend's (HI TIM) basement. I was shipping it out that night, so I bagged it up and I was squeezing out the air and about to put in fresh o2 for the fed ex trip. Anyway, I must have hit the top or scared it in some way, because it stung me n the side of my wrist - HARD. I wanted to kill it so bad....

Thankfully, Tim finished packing it, I spent the next 10 mins washing it with hot water, and I ended up shipping it out. I did spend the next 4-5 hrs in extreme pain

As I look at the scar now, I'm reminded of how much that hurt, and how bad I wanted to kill it.

As for the oddest death, I'm reminded of story I heard about an arapaima and a shovel....

 

[neoprodigy]

Several years ago, I almost killed a ray - schroederi (if I recall) in my friend's (HI TIM) basement. I was shipping it out that night, so I bagged it up and I was squeezing out the air and about to put in fresh o2 for the fed ex trip. Anyway, I must have hit the top or scared it in some way, because it stung me n the side of my wrist - HARD. I wanted to kill it so bad....

Thankfully, Tim finished packing it, I spent the next 10 mins washing it with hot water, and I ended up shipping it out. I did spend the next 4-5 hrs in extreme pain

As I look at the scar now, I'm reminded of how much that hurt, and how bad I wanted to kill it.

As for the oddest death, I'm reminded of story I heard about an arapaima and a shovel....

i remember!

 

[NCStateFisher]

I had gotten a rainbow shark for a small aquarium along with an opaline gourami and blue gourami. The first time i did a WC the rainbow shark freaked out and went in to shock, I spent about 15 minutes moving the fish back and forth getting oxygen through his gills and he survived happily for nearly 3 months, eating fine, growing fine. Well, the Opaline gourami had started to pick on the slightly smaller blue gourami, but the blue had learned to hide in one of the 2 beer bottles for safety when being attacked so I figured it would be okay they'd work it out, well one day I woke up to a dead blue gourami with the rainbow shark eating him. I was like well, crap. My girlfriend was incredibly upset and we went to petsmart because I needed to grab something for the tank, and she decided she really like bala sharks. Well, I knew i had a bigger tank coming so I said okay and got it for her. Put him in with the opaline and rainbow shark, everything was okay. Woke up in the morning, the Rainbow had killed and eaten the bala shark all the way down through the bones to where all that was left was the skull and part of the spine. About 2 days later, the rainbow shark was dead. He turned black and was sunk all the way to the bottom of the tank, his body couldn't process eating that much (the bala was his size...). So after all that effort to keep him alive, he ate his tankmmates to death

- Another much shorter story, I had a small school of silver dollars for a short time (about a week ended up taking them back because they were acting incredibly sick from the time I got them) - One of the smaller ones had swam under the water intake for the filter and got stuck to it sideways. I reached down and pulled him off, he seemed okay. I came back from the store the next morning, the same fish had swam up it head first, this time, his eyes and all the skin on his face had been ripped off. (i'd say since it was the 2nd time he kinda deserved it...)