Major Bummer...

[Demjor19]

This morning i woke up, to find one of my favorite fish laying dead on the tank bottom. He was a Green Severum and developed a disease while i was back in PA visiting family over Memorial weekend and he never seemed to recover....even after being quarentined and medicated. What a crappy start to a day...

[angelcakes]

sorry for your loss :ssad: :ssad: it is a crap start to the day!!

[Demjor19]

sorry for your loss :ssad: :ssad: it is a crap start to the day!!

Thanks. This fish was one that ive raised from about a half inch long and had the chance to watch him grow so much over the past 2 years. i cant even think of how he could have gotten sick!? He was in a tank that was well established and has had no changes in quite some time...strange.

[angelcakes]

Thanks. This fish was one that ive raised from about a half inch long and had the chance to watch him grow so much over the past 2 years. i cant even think of how he could have gotten sick!? He was in a tank that was well established and has had no changes in quite some time...strange.
makes it even worse when its one you have raised for a long time,:11: and no other fish are showing the same symptoms?

[Demjor19]

makes it even worse when its one you have raised for a long time,:11: and no other fish are showing the same symptoms?

None of the other fish are showing any symptoms at all. this was a very strange disease anyway. i hope i got him QT'd before anyone else got it...so far things seem ok with all the other fish.

[sandy_n]

So sorry to hear about your severum.

[ladyoutlaw50]

I am sorry for your loss!!!

[Incredulous_Ed]

Sorry to hear

[phxl]

that sucks, sorry for your loss :(

[Demjor19]

thanks for the kind words all. it's wierd looking in his old 75 and not seeing him...: (

[cichlid guy]

thanks for the kind words all. it's wierd looking in his old 75 and not seeing him...: (
I'm truly sorry.I have felt that pain twice.First my favorite fish Labrinth died in the morning of a school day.I saw him floating in the air and it felt like my heart tore.I started crying in front of my mom so it hurt her too.Sorry for your loss.

[cocoa_pleco]

aw man, im sorry, it sucks

i know the feeling, i raised my oscar from a few inches to almost fullgrown, he was in a 12g nanocube at the store, laying sideways in a plant and i felt bad for him so i bought him. I bought the 90g just for him, else i probably wouldnt have got it. I had to work for about 3 hours that day because some other worker had a emergency and i volunteered to fill in, 630am-10am. i was up at 6, checked the tank, all was good and the oscar was awake and came to see me. i figured i would turn the tank lights on when i came back. i came back, i couldnt find the oscar anywhere, i figured theres no way he could have escaped from the 2" hole in the tank cover, he was 14" long. i thought i would just wait it out. i turned around, 6 feet from the tank he was laying there dead. He was pretty much my favorite fish and i just sat down and thought that it couldnt be real, and for a week after my pacu was in shock. my largest pacu was raised with the oscar since they were both only a few inches long, and the pacu just sulked for a week straight. the pacu realized he wasnt coming back and got over it. and to send me for a guilt trip, my oscar loved hikari and wasnt happy til he got some, and a few days before he died i ran out and meant to buy some but kept puting it off

[Demjor19]

aw man, im sorry, it sucks

i know the feeling, i raised my oscar from a few inches to almost fullgrown, he was in a 12g nanocube at the store, laying sideways in a plant and i felt bad for him so i bought him. I bought the 90g just for him, else i probably wouldnt have got it. I had to work for about 3 hours that day because some other worker had a emergency and i volunteered to fill in, 630am-10am. i was up at 6, checked the tank, all was good and the oscar was awake and came to see me. i figured i would turn the tank lights on when i came back. i came back, i couldnt find the oscar anywhere, i figured theres no way he could have escaped from the 2" hole in the tank cover, he was 14" long. i thought i would just wait it out. i turned around, 6 feet from the tank he was laying there dead. He was pretty much my favorite fish and i just sat down and thought that it couldnt be real, and for a week after my pacu was in shock. my largest pacu was raised with the oscar since they were both only a few inches long, and the pacu just sulked for a week straight. the pacu realized he wasnt coming back and got over it. and to send me for a guilt trip, my oscar loved hikari and wasnt happy til he got some, and a few days before he died i ran out and meant to buy some but kept puting it off

that's terrible! Pacu are such a smart fish that i could definitely see them being depressed over losing a tankmate.

to make things worse...i lost one of my shortbodied albino senegal bichirs today!!! it appeared as though he choaked on some gravel while feeding the night before. i was bummed about this too, but it wasnt quite as hard as losing my severum. these are the tough times with this hobby...it definitely has it's ups and downs.

[Lady Hobbs]

I'm so sorry about your fish. We expect them to live forever, I think, and are always shocked when you lose one of our favorites. I haven't had to go thru that yet. I lose the little guys now and then but no big time favorites......yet. My time is coming.

[Demjor19]

I'm so sorry about your fish. We expect them to live forever, I think, and are always shocked when you lose one of our favorites. I haven't had to go thru that yet. I lose the little guys now and then but no big time favorites......yet. My time is coming.

i think we do sometimes forget that they are not invincible and will not live forever. i have suffered very few losses given the amount of time and amount of fish i have kept...to have two pretty big losses in one week stinks! It makes it even worse knowing that each of the fish that died were just over a year old.

thanks again for the kind words and i'm sure things will get better from here.