bizzare fish death

[Rocket2001]

I went away for the night on Sat. when i came back on Sun. I went to do my usual daily check on my tank...I found my Pitcus catfish "impaled" on a fake plant....It was a grass like plant the had long thin "blades of grass". The plant had gone into his gills and out his mouth...he had apparently struugled for sometime because he was all beatup and bloodied...the weird thing is he would have had to backed into the plant because it entered his gill and then came out his mouth...very weird

 

[Blucat]

Oh.... poor thing. I was contemplating getting a LIVE tall grass like plant. But then again... plastic is hard and plants are softer....

 

[Fluff]

That's horrible. Sorry for your loss.

 

[TomK2]

Could it have died and drifted onto the plant? the body trauma caused by other fish picking at the corpse?

What a bummer...

 

[frog girl]

Sorry,

Always hard to find something like that. I have to agree with Tom though it seems unlikely that the animal could have done that himself.

 

[QTOFFER]

I'm sorry for your loss, Rocket.
I'm inclined to agree with TomK2's forensic analysis. All the same, it must have been a bizarre sight.

 

[SerLunchbox]

sorry for your loss man. I know how much it sucks

 

[An t-iasg]

Rocket2001, I'm sorry It's terrible to discover something like this.

 

[JohnPaul]

I'm sorry, it is always tough to lose a fish.

On a brighter note, I am getting the sense there are some people here ready to audition for the newest installment in the hit CBS television series. First it was CSI, then it was CSI: Miami...now it's CSI: Aquarium! 8)

 

[oldshell4481]

i know suckers have no problem backing up, so could he have drifted backwards a little too much in that spot.

 

[FishLover14]

Really Sorry about your loss.