threnjen
Aquarium Advice Addict
Today has been a really bad fish day.
First I was changing water in my kid's tank and I was trying the pump method where I pump the water out to a bucket with a powerhead. I had the pump intake unprotected but I put it up against a fake plant so there was some stuff blocking the intake. Well I must have underestimated the power of the intake because his betta came too close to check it out and got sucked in butt first. I pulled the plug immediately but he was so ripped up he looked like he went into a garbage disposal. His very few remaining fins were strings and his butt ended too early in a shredded mess. There were fin bits all over the tank. It was absolutely horrible.
I tried moving him to a hospital tank but he was clearly mortally wounded and really ailing. so I euthanized him. I didn't have any special affinity for him but the fact that I had made him suffer so horribly and tortured him in such a manner had me in tears. I can't believe I did that to him. I feel so horrible.
Then hubby and I went to the movies and when we came home in the main tank discovered my absolutely favorite fish, my German Blue Ram named Snow White (our ONLY fish with a name, she was that special) floating at the top. To make me feel extra bad she had obviously been dead a few days (although she wasn't floating before this evening; she must have been dislodged from her death spot today during water change). So now I don't understand how I didn't notice she was missing at food time, the last few days. I'm so sad, she was my favorite. So, more tears. I don't know why she died.
That's my bad fish day, thanks for listening.
First I was changing water in my kid's tank and I was trying the pump method where I pump the water out to a bucket with a powerhead. I had the pump intake unprotected but I put it up against a fake plant so there was some stuff blocking the intake. Well I must have underestimated the power of the intake because his betta came too close to check it out and got sucked in butt first. I pulled the plug immediately but he was so ripped up he looked like he went into a garbage disposal. His very few remaining fins were strings and his butt ended too early in a shredded mess. There were fin bits all over the tank. It was absolutely horrible.
I tried moving him to a hospital tank but he was clearly mortally wounded and really ailing. so I euthanized him. I didn't have any special affinity for him but the fact that I had made him suffer so horribly and tortured him in such a manner had me in tears. I can't believe I did that to him. I feel so horrible.
Then hubby and I went to the movies and when we came home in the main tank discovered my absolutely favorite fish, my German Blue Ram named Snow White (our ONLY fish with a name, she was that special) floating at the top. To make me feel extra bad she had obviously been dead a few days (although she wasn't floating before this evening; she must have been dislodged from her death spot today during water change). So now I don't understand how I didn't notice she was missing at food time, the last few days. I'm so sad, she was my favorite. So, more tears. I don't know why she died.
That's my bad fish day, thanks for listening.
