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Old October 31st, 2009  
Fish Helper
 
Unbelieveable

hi everyone,
tragedy has struck my tank and i could do absolutly nothing about it. in a span of 24 hours 2 of my fish had died.

no it wasnt desease. it wasnt anything i could treat.

one of my glo fish and one of my guppies desided to try to fit behind my breeders net. they got stuck (one while i was sleeping, and the other while i was at school) and were injured enough that within about a span of 24 hours they had both passed.

i felt so helpless.

then i decided i would find a solution so i moved the breeders net out a little so that now my fish can pass behind it with room to spare.

i never thought this could have happened and i wish that i would have been prepared but at least i am prepared now

so following there deaths i went to my LFS and got a female glofish and a female guppy ( the guppy looks to be pregnant from the store so more fry are probley on the way)

im hoping that this tradgedy has prepared me for the future.

is there anything more i could have done? or should do?

if so please tell me.

: )
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Old October 31st, 2009  
Fish Addict
 
Hello Cherry,

What an awful story... I'm so sorry!!! I too have used a breeder net and all I can think is that the metal pieces that you can bend over the edge of the tank to hold up the net can be bent however you like. Maybe they could have been bent to where enough room was between the net and the glass of the tank.

However, I never thought of the fish getting stuck so don't beat yourself up! Now you know to be careful of that so enjoy your new fish but remember the others and why they passed.

Good luck on your fry and post pictures!

Robin
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Old October 31st, 2009  
Fish Helper
 
i will : )
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Old November 1st, 2009  
Fish Master
 
oh no! sorry about your little kids
Dont beat yourself up, you didnt know...

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Old November 1st, 2009  
Moderator
 
Hello CherryBarbBoi. So sorry to hear about your losses. Sometimes things happen that are just beyond our control. Best of luck with your new additions. We all live and learn and try the best we can for our fish friends.
RIP little fishes.
Ken
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Old November 1st, 2009  
Fish Mentor
 
I've experienced this before. One of my older variatus platies got stuck. she didn't make it either

we all make mistakes sometimes, and now that this experience has occured, you know how to avoid it later
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Old November 1st, 2009  
Moderator
 
I'm so sorry for your losses. Please understand you didn't know and you didn't do it on purpose. Fishkeeping has a lot of learning experiences, some are good, some are bad.
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Old November 1st, 2009  
Moderator
 
I'm really sorry. As other's have said, don't be so hard on yourself.
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