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

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New gruesome death for me

My cat was locked in my room by my sister... said cat loves to paw at my tanks (other then the 70 w/ the big guys, the wolf flips and scares her away). BUT she loves to mess with my 10 gallon, which normally isn't an issue because I'm watching her.

Well it was an issue w/o anyone in the room, an African butterfly fish my buddy gave me that was already roughed up from a 5 inch bichir was in my 10 gallon while a bichir was being QT'd in my 30. Came home to half the butterfly fish on my floor, my cat ate it. Must have jumped out of fright and then was probably a very amusing toy and tasty snack for my cat, Nala. Of course the cat we name after a lion is the one that kills things and leaves a mess (has done it before w/ chipmunks and mice)

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The strainer somehow got knocked off the fx5 and my 9" delhizi decided to go check it out. I woke up to a cloudy tank and a dead delhizi. It was hard to pull the remains from the tube.


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(1st story) One day after feeding the fish everything was going fine in the tank then about a couple hours later in the night heard thrashing while watching tv coming from the tank decided to go check it out noticed that one of the redtail catfish was deathrolling the motoro stingray and basically ripped all of his skin off and managed to snap his tail poor thing tried to save him as much as we could put him in a different tank but he unfortunately didnt survive.

(2nd story)Had a 15" silver arowana in a tank with two redtails along with two hybrids and a tiger and for a few nights kept hearing alot of splashing going on so decided to get up and take a look arowana managed to jump through a 3 quarter inch slot ontop of the tank and was on the floor the catfish were attacking him in the middle of the night. So we moved the catfish into a seperate tank and decided to fix the slot so he wouldnt jump out so one morning woke up and noticed the arrowana was dead on the floor :(.
 
hey guys im really sorry that i shouldnt be posting here but it seems that most of u guys must be involved in having a silver arowana. i really need help right now i have 11 inch long silver arowana in 85g fish tank his tank mates are ( golden severum red spotted severum) small frontosa, few tropheus and princess burundi. generally arowana is not disturbed by its being. as u can see in the video it has no scars no nothing. but still hes not swimming properly. his constantly shaking his head. heres the video plz help me out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-7JBa2RMSY
 
zazadov said:
hey guys im really sorry that i shouldnt be posting here but it seems that most of u guys must be involved in having a silver arowana. i really need help right now i have 11 inch long silver arowana in 85g fish tank his tank mates are ( golden severum red spotted severum) small frontosa, few tropheus and princess burundi. generally arowana is not disturbed by its being. as u can see in the video it has no scars no nothing. but still hes not swimming properly. his constantly shaking his head. heres the video plz help me out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-7JBa2RMSY
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Looks like swim bladder. Very hard to cure, good luck try to move it into another cycled tank and drain out most the water so hes just coasting on the bottom. This will help him balance himself and hopfully he can heal. Just look up some cures for swim bladder.
 
May not be the worst compared to some of the deaths mentioned here but I have lost a few fish over the years due to them jumping out of the tank and dying on the floor...It must be pretty gruesome to flap around helplessly with the tank so close by and no way to get back to it.I've come home to almost completely dried out Arowana,a few cichlids,and even a large dat and I'm sorry I wasn't home in time to save them.
 
I had a small Asian Sun Catfish in a grow out. Forgot the strainer on the intake was off on my Eheim liberty filter. Came home to find dozens of tiny bits of flesh all over the floor on the bottom of the tank. And no sign of a catfish :(
 
actually my first arowana died from jumping out from aquarium he got completely dry. :( it was a bad scene for my eyes
thanks for your help and support but it turned out that its a parasite. i tried to cure him with clear ( a flowerhorn drug which cures hex) and i thought its his last moments (im talking about arowana) so it might be a parasite and i gave it a shot. i got my syringe filled it up with the mixture got it in his throat and after an hour or so he was fine i could not believe my eyes. i was so happy. currently im still trying to cure my arowana with that drug and the reason why i believe that it was not a swimming lbadder problem was because my fish-tank water was perfectly fine since i got him. allways crystal clear with no exceptions. so why would it be bladder so u know. :) im kinda satisfied that clear kindly cured him. however he still does not accept my shrimps, :D maybe ill give it some time after 2 days or so i think he'll be fine :)

 
and according to my experience in fish keeping. there were many unpleasant moments. the worse death was when my catfish was trying to eat my fire eel. yep fire eel was 68 cm long when redtail catfish was about 52. so fire eel was too fat huge and stuff and i still cant figure out how redtail managed to attack him . the point is that redtail attacked him but he was only able to swallow the half of him the tail of the eel all that happened during the night when i woke up i saw a catfish trying to eat the eel and i could see his head and half body outside he was dead already and even colorless. some other habitats were trying to bite its head and eyes. it mustve been sever not only for watching but for fish itself :( i was literally depressed about that
 
So far the worst death of mine was a 10 in oscar brutally killed by my dovii. Of course i didnt know much about dovii before getting him. I felt terrible. Now he lives with a pleco.

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