I finally have a fish to add here.... He was no monster in size, but was super fun to feed!!! I miss him, but at least I still have his friend. 
THE DEAD FISH THREAD!!!!!
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I finally have a fish to add here.... He was no monster in size, but was super fun to feed!!! I miss him, but at least I still have his friend.
House power surge tripped the GFI and shutdown the filters shortly after feeding these gulpers. They puked up the market shrimp, 120g tank crashed only survivor was a black giant gouramy in the span of 24-36 hours prolly. Walked into the house funny smell, go to the fish room 187g fine turn to see the 120g lights off, cloudy white water, and floating fish.
They were 9-12 inches had the smaller ones since for about 1 year got them at 4-5inches. This was also about 2 months after losing two new 4-5 inch gulpers same puke ammonia spike scenario smaller growout tank that couldnt handle it gulpers died ghost glass cats lived. Also lost one when I first got them come home from new years a couple days later and find a floating bloated fish in the tank at least it didnt crash though.
$300 burn gonna keep me away from gulpers for awhile.
They're bloated from decomp not just feeding.
My dead BRPs. . .
The larger orange one is the only one left. First 3 fish I ever owned! Had them for about 3-4 years from just a few inches long. Two cubes of brine got caught in the filter intake that I unfortunately didn't realize until it was too late, which caused terrible water parameters quickly.
The larger orange one is the only one left. First 3 fish I ever owned! Had them for about 3-4 years from just a few inches long. Two cubes of brine got caught in the filter intake that I unfortunately didn't realize until it was too late, which caused terrible water parameters quickly.
My turn... I have 8 giant danios, well had. Now i have 7. Danios are notorious for their mad jumping skills, but they also are known (at least to me) for getting into weird places. I have had it happen 5 times where the danios jump into the filter and into where the filter is pumped into the media, i fixed that. Than they started jumping, that's where i lost two of them, than the last one went really far. I just got a new glass canopy to accomadate my new t5 fixture, so there is a small slit between the glass and light. Not knowing about this until today, i saw the reflection of a danio just sitting on it's side, So i bend down to look up to see if their is a sickly fish but see nothing. So i immediately assumed he was under the light. I lifted the light and low and behold, there was a dried, fried and dead danio sitting there. So it's not a huge loss, but the only one i have documented. I am proud to say i haven't lost ANY fish to a disease, only to suicide.
The thing about losing fish is that if you keep monster fish, fish are bound to get eaten. I had a 24 in RTC x TSN cross and came home from work one day and the catfish had 4 inches of a 16 inch Black Arrow hanging out of his mouth. everyone, I feel your pain!
