Not mine personally, but I witnessed someone trying to put a Red Devil with his Convict Pair and the female got its eye taken out and its gill taken half off.
What's the most grusome death one of your fish has suffered?
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Filter intake cover fell off and a rope fish went up the OTB intake tube head first, when I found him and pulled him out he was 2 inches shorter and dead thanks to a lack of head.
Lots of XP3/4 related tube deaths... they really need to make those modular intake tubes have snaps on them or something.
Mine fell off once during a water change as I moved a rock. It laid in the bottom of the tank for a while and a loach swam in and got comfy. I had no idea. When it fell off I unplugged the filter, of course, and turned it back on later when the change was done.
It didn't work and was making funny noises, so I was a bit confused. Finally I gave up on it and decided to clean it (it was due anyway). But I couldn't close the valves off to remove it. Finally, with all my might I yanked the lever until it opened... only to find that the obstruction was, in fact, my loach, and that I had forcibly sliced him in half.
It took me half an hour to extract his remains and get the filter working again. A constant reminder that I brutally murdered my fish. It sucked.
Mine fell off once during a water change as I moved a rock. It laid in the bottom of the tank for a while and a loach swam in and got comfy. I had no idea. When it fell off I unplugged the filter, of course, and turned it back on later when the change was done.
It didn't work and was making funny noises, so I was a bit confused. Finally I gave up on it and decided to clean it (it was due anyway). But I couldn't close the valves off to remove it. Finally, with all my might I yanked the lever until it opened... only to find that the obstruction was, in fact, my loach, and that I had forcibly sliced him in half.
It took me half an hour to extract his remains and get the filter working again. A constant reminder that I brutally murdered my fish. It sucked.
mines is when i had my ornate and another fish knocked off the end of the intake for my emp400 and i found my ornates head smashed up from the propeller 
Stock at the time - i used to have a 90 gallon saltwater tank, only had a large yellow tang, two clowns, i believe 3 damsels at the time, and an undulated trigger fish
What happened - went to the pet store and decided to buy a pink anthias (my first mistake). then i brought it home and let the bag sit in the water as they advise to do, everything was quiet in the tank even the trigger, just swimming at the bottom from one hiding place to another... and as soon as i put the anthias inside the trigger goes in attack mode. jumps from the bottom of the tank to the top and bits the anthias in the neck twice, and bits its left eye out.
this all happened so fast it was unbelievable, and by the time i tryed to take the anthias out he was beyond my help. i separated him from the tank and tryed to see if he can recover (dont ask why, i dont know what i was thinking, it was basically 90% dead)
but no luck, and it died in a few hours.. thats the shortest time i ever had a fish in my tank for lol. less than a minute.
i did look at the charts and it said to be cautious with triggers and anthias, but in such a large tank for the fish ( the were both relatively small, no bigger than 3.5in) even the guy that sold me the fish wasnt worried, but fish can sometimes be very unpredictable.
What happened - went to the pet store and decided to buy a pink anthias (my first mistake). then i brought it home and let the bag sit in the water as they advise to do, everything was quiet in the tank even the trigger, just swimming at the bottom from one hiding place to another... and as soon as i put the anthias inside the trigger goes in attack mode. jumps from the bottom of the tank to the top and bits the anthias in the neck twice, and bits its left eye out.
this all happened so fast it was unbelievable, and by the time i tryed to take the anthias out he was beyond my help. i separated him from the tank and tryed to see if he can recover (dont ask why, i dont know what i was thinking, it was basically 90% dead)
but no luck, and it died in a few hours.. thats the shortest time i ever had a fish in my tank for lol. less than a minute.
i did look at the charts and it said to be cautious with triggers and anthias, but in such a large tank for the fish ( the were both relatively small, no bigger than 3.5in) even the guy that sold me the fish wasnt worried, but fish can sometimes be very unpredictable.
i lost one of my florida spotted gars in a slow death, i wasent home for the weekend so the family was looking after the tanks, i guess who ever was feeding the fish one morning forgot to close the lid after and one of my 8 inch florida spotted gars jumped out, i noticed when i got home that i was missing a fish, i asked if any one had seen him or if he died and they took him out, no one knew what happened, i spent an hour or so searching the floors and in and around everything, i finaly had given up i figured one of my cats got him or my dog. about a week later i found the fish, when he jumped he landed on my cumputer desk behind the computer, and the cumputer fan was blowing on him it hardened his body, he didnt rot at all it was like i took him to the taxidermist to get mounted, it was weird, i assume it would of been a painful slow death considering he got dried out.
I've lost 3 snails being stuck to the fluval x5. I don't know why they have to test out the intake part. Also have had fish sneak out the top of the tanks. Never fails.
Had several very large pond comets in a 55 gallon. And a few albino cory cats. One day got home from work to find that one of the goldfish had sucked up a cat head first. I had to take her out and grab the poor little cat with pliers to get it out. Needless to say between the pliers and the broken fin barbs it did not last long. I talked to the guys at the fish store and they were shocked. They had never heard of such a thing and said it was doubtful that it would happen again so to leave the remaining cats in.....WRONG!!!! About a week later it happened again but this time I was not as careful so that the cat would not suffer as long. Pulled a long strip of flesh out of the comets mouth that would go in and out as it breathed....But the comet got better and lived...
Yes I moved the remaining cories.
Yes I moved the remaining cories.
