Deaths

[cane76]

i would of lost more than 7 fish if it wernt for some good advice in the emergency section

 

[CFC]

If you counted how many fish have died in my care id be giving captain birds eye a run for his money

We all have disasters and we all buy sick or weak fish from time to time and the more tanks you run and the more fish you buy the higher your chances of experiencing deaths and problems are.

 

[linda1503]

I remember many years ago when my father-in-law kept fish. He always asked me to clean his tank, this was before the days of cycling and every few months I would do a 100% clean up, filter, water the lot. He had this beautiful angel fish about 5" and one time I put it in the bucket but later found it floating on the top. Luckily he was very nice about it but i've felt guitly for years!!!

 

[blitztidus]

There have been too many to count, and I don't count fry. I have gone through 200+ fish in the past 10 years, I doesn't help when you have a little sister who likes to get into everything too lol

 

[OohFeeshy]

Quite a few, methinks. Hmm, two groups of 6 tetras from NTD and gill flukes (at the same time, whoopee), a group of cories from some nasty bacterial disease, ~10 bettas from varios illnesses, mainly a highly contagious TB/dropsy style illness, more whoopees with that, a few others for no apparent reason, delhezi who thought he could fly from a tank with no gaps and rocks on top, umm, a few others too.

 

[dgwebster]

hmm im starting to feel a little proud:

1) 1 zebra danios, cause coloumnaris flexibacter. This was a week into the hobby, i did not know better and it didnt show any distinguishing symptoms till the last day.

2) 1 zebra danios (a new one brought into the group a few weeks after number 1) due to getting in the way of a female spraying eggs and she took a chunk out of him. 48 hours after pruchase and he was only wee.

3) 1 zebra danios (seeing the pattern here?) after it became trapped by a slipped fluval internal filter and the aquarium side. It received very extensive damage to its body, leading to its death in a hospital tank

Total: 3 fish. all zebra danios my first fish.

I also thought i was about to loose an ADF, however turns out my betta enjoys snuggling into them ???

Oh and unconfirmed right now, im missing an ADF in my other tank. gonna have to find him soon though as the pair are being moved in with the other ADFs soon...

 

[FishOwner]

Not sure how to do this as I've had fish that lived for what I would consider a long lifetime for that particular species such as black skirt tetras that I had for 7 years before they started dying one by one. Neons that lived for around 4 & 1/2 years before doing the same thing. A pair of marble koi angels that I had for just over 7 years but I had bought them as adults (mated pair) so I really couldn't tell you their true age, a deformed golden wonder killiefish (spinal deformity) that although he only lived for about a year and a half, probably wouldn't have a long lifespan anyway as his spine got worse as he aged...platies, guppies, bettas that lived for 3 years or so each???

So...freshwater fish that have died due to my own mistakes.... another golden wonder killifish that swam up a broken intake tube that I was going to replace in the morning. The tube broke off when I was cleaning it one night, the stores were closed and I figured it would be fine until morning. Go figure. An entire tank wipe-out (total 11 fish) due to buying some cheap gravel that the color coating was flaking off and I didn't replace it....just kept gravel vacuuming it out. ((Stupid thing to do...)) A gold nugget pleco that became entangled in some java moss and suffocated when the moss wrapped around his gill plates (didn't know that could happen), two male swordtails that kept fighting each other and eventually succumbed to fin rot. Two female rams that the male killed off before I could remove them (not all at one time, each female was tried and replaced when he killed her), one female ram that jumped out and my dog ate ! A few fish that died for no apparent reason, about 4 guppies, 5 neons, 1 dwarf gourami, 2 very young black lace angels. Can't forget the fish that my blood parrot ate, 2 zebra danios, 3 of the genetically altered danios (they skipped over the divider) and about 20 shelldweller fry that made it under the divider....
If you are going to count fry then the count is going to go way up as I killed off several batches of angel fry when first learning how to care for them, plus 3 batches of ram fry that the male just kept chowing down on.

Saltwater side, had a tank wipe-out because of hurricanes, lost numerous corals, snails, shrimp, crabs, other inverts, clams and 4 fish. Also had a lionfish die because of a tank busting. Lost an elbili angel to ich along with two royal grammas (not all at the same time). One blue devil damsel that was being beaten to death by other fish and who I could not catch because of all the rocks. A firefish that got a broken jaw when it ran into a rock. (Poor little thing, you could see his jaw was out of alignment, could see blood too, he tried to eat but then died shortly afterwards)
Almost forgot, a newly bought green chromis that when released into the tank swam right into an anemone!

Not going to count the large amount of fish that I have sold, or returned to the LFS or the fish I gave away over the years!!

 

[james1971]

I had 9 of my neons die within 2 weeks when I first got my tank and still don't know why.

Since then I have had a molly and a guppy die of dropsy.

2 guppies disappear presumably eaten.

1 guppy I found in the filter.

1 frog I found in th filter.

1 frog I have no idea why it died.

Plus numerous fry that have been scoffed before I got the chance to separate.

James1971

 

[Sheridanp]

1 common pleco, no idea why. I'm proud of myself, being 13 and a beginner.

 

[jarcher1390]

im feeling better u guys, ive lost around 40 ish maybe more not many of deases but mostly unforseen things but where ma dad says where thers life stock there will always be dead stock sometimes

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Oooooohhhhh dear. I started out adding fish to my tank not knowing anything about fishless cycling. Thankfully I lost just 2 harlequin rasboras to that, although one lived past it and died some time later but it was caused by the cycling poor thing. I still have the others from back then.
Two croaking gouramies. Both caught a virulent fungal infection and died within 12 hours of the first signs. A rescue betta we had at the time also caught it and died after 24 hours. Worst of all, all were in seperate tanks with no connection at all. All the other fish were fine and unaffected.
Two of my very first platies died within the last month. The female, don't know what killed her. May have been old age. The boy died of dropsy. Put up a massive fight but I put him to sleep as he continued to deteriorate.
My deformed girl golden gourami. She had lived a year well but she was spending more and more time lying on the substrate and getting thinner so she was allowed to go to sleep. One of the saddest days of my life.
Two angels. Both early mistakes as a beginner.
One of my original Malawi. Managed to kill itself by swimming into a rockface very fast. Stupid creature.
There's been numerous fry. I leave the livebearers to themselves. Lost one of my gourami fry after it got stuck behind an internal filter in the grow out tank.
Long finned BN. She got her fins caught in an internal and ripped them very badly. Despite all efforts she died rather unexpectedly after showing considerable improvement.
A rescue betta. Lasted only a few days and he was replaced by the lfs by one of my current boys who is alive and well.

I would like all my current fish, of all ages and species, to live to a good ripe old age and die peacefully many years from now. All my tanks are mature and healthy so am keeping my fins crossed for them all.
Hugs,
P.

 

[Saedcantas]

Deary me this is a woeful topic isnt it!

Well since restarting keeping fish at home in November I've lost 1 Dwarf Ottocinclus, my tank was fairly new and I should have known better he showed no symptoms whatsoever but just turned up dead one morning
and 2 butterfly rams Both at seperate times within a week of being introduced each to perfect and obssessively monitored water. I think both were as a result of stress, I did everything else I could but I couldnt stop my honey gourami Gertrude from chasing them off to the point that one died of Septicemia and the other died as a result of Columnaria, but it put up a damn good fight

Sadly, that isnt counting the untold casualties of my fishkeeping as an 11 year old with a 20 gallon tank... I didnt have even the faintest scrap of an idea about what I was doing

RIP little buddies!