THE DEAD FISH THREAD!!!!!

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My silver aro is now about 23 inches long and I was thinking what makes an aro jump the tank.

So I spent a bit of time studying aro to see what would make them jump. Thankfully mine has not, though it gets really ticked when I clean the tank. And when I am about to put food in it goes into its natural coil and release pose. After watching a few videos and reading up on them I came to a thought.

If the top for the tank is not see through will an aro still try to launch itself at something it perceives as food. Since in nature they go vertical and coil and then shoot out of the water to hit things on the branches above, I came to a conclusion that perhaps some of the aro who have jumped had a fly or something go on the top and the aro was just trying to eat it.

To this end I am going to try to black out the top of the tank except where the light is so that the aro can not see the space above the tank. I wanted to drop this thought in this thread to see what yall thought of this.
 
It is a heart breaking thread
Here my share one of my Chinese weather loaches just died earlier today

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oh man i've had some really nice fish die they might not of been 100 buck fish but they had alot of personalty
 
for some reason, I lose panda corys like it's my job. I've gone through about 10 this year so far.
 
here is a very old pic of my comm tank ... saw this on the morning of July 1st, 2004

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_Jessica_;4080723; said:
Aww man Chen...what happened? That is absolutely terrible :(.

That wasn't a good day for me! :( Canada with a tank full of dead fish...have learned that is the risk with this great hobby of ours...happen back in 2004...no clue what happen...no water change the night before and or any changes to my routine...continues to be a mystery...but moved on...
 
One of my older fishes died tonight it was sad i got home and my kittens had unplugged the power cable that runs the air pumps. Once i noticed the power out i checked the tanks and in one a 6 year old oscar named Einstein bit the dust poor guy via lack of o2 with the pumps not running. Freakin lame. When he was younger i taught him to jump all the way out of the tank and grab food from my hand.




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