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One of the great unknowns in the hobby, it's anonymous so be honest people and we should get a good feel for the sacrifice our fishy friends have made to the cause
ive lost about 10 but 5 of those where refuges from my wifes friends manky tank that i rescued all of which where less than 1/4 of the size they should have been the other 5 where rummy nose that found there way down my filter
Hi all,
A rescue Pristella Tetra (developed swim bladder problems), age unknown. A young female Apistogramma cacatuoides, failed to thrive even after removal to tank on its own, originally problems with over-crowding (If any-one is in the Bath/Bristol/Swindon area and wants A. cacatuoides "Double Red", I have plenty of sub-adults as pairs or trios), and a Black Neon Tetra (4 years old). I've also just killled half a tank of shrimps, because I'd failed to notice the filter had stopped working, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a water quality issue, but a temperature one.
I replied 4-10 because of the statement after it 'It happens'
In reality I could possibly say 50-100.Since I setup my current scape in March 09 I have lost 10 rasbora Espei. From bad stock? Bad blood lines? In fighting? who knows.
I have lost 5 adult Corys for unexplainable reasons.
I have lost 8 Otos. Nearly all 'playing chicken' with the filter inlet
Add to that uncountable amounts of cory fry from 1 day to 3 months for unexplainable reasons.
Either way I have more fish in my tank now than in March 09 and I haven't bought any more. Fish die but they also breed
Lost one oto, probably due to transportation stress, they looked pretty well fed from the LFS. Then I lost 2 out of 10, wild caught - shame on me, Microdevario kubotai. After getting 10 Paracheirodon simulans, of which a couple didn't look too well and died within a couple of days, I suddenly started to lose the Microdevario one by one. After a couple of months I decided to get some Aplocheilichthys normani, but after closer inspection at home I discovered that some of them seemed to be very skinny and had dark blotches on their bellies and I started to lose them one by one, and now there's only two left. But they seem to be fine and I actually saw 1 free swimming fry, but that probably either got eaten or ended up in the filter, I have checked and cleaned the filter (TT EX700) since, and it wasn't there.
All this is pretty new to me. Before that I hardly ever lost a fish
Lost 2 Bleeding heart tetras - at least 6years old, so old age I would think
Lost 12 Endlers - 1 survived - bad new fish stock, they had white spot but it killed them before we knew what it was
Gained about 15 Snakeskin guppies and 20 Endler-Snakeskin crosses (accidental, I thought he was too stunted to ever breed) after buying 2 females, they are thriving LOL have separated males from females to avoid population explosion
I've lost count probably well into the several hundreds possibly even a thousand or more some of which I've culled deliberately, others I've used as food for some of my cats and others just didn't make it.
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