Shortest Lived Fish Ever

JoeMomma · 01/30/2008, 09:23 AM

I got this idea from another thread...

What is the fastest you've had a fish die on you?

I added a yellow watchman goby to my display and after about 12 hours I found him dead in my sumps filter sock.

tydtran · 01/30/2008, 09:31 AM

This is a pretty silly thread.

zhenjw · 01/30/2008, 09:32 AM

I put a fish in QT and it died within 4 hours. Poor thing came from most bullied fish in the LFS tank to death by heater malfunction.

IceWish · 01/30/2008, 09:37 AM

ive never had a fish that died really fast, ...well except for a yellow tang i had for one day after which i couldnt find him anywhere...a few weeks later when i was about to do a water change i found him on the top the center brace of my tank,..., he was fried from my halides...
Nearly all my fish spent a night in my filter sock at one point or the other , the last one was a blue damsel., They usually only do it once or twice though.Even after i put in the eggcrate.

Travis L. Stevens · 01/30/2008, 09:37 AM

I watched someone work on a maintenance account and they added a firefish to a tank with a ray in it. I would say about 30 seconds.

Jescd · 01/30/2008, 09:48 AM

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Originally posted by tydtran
This is a pretty silly thread.

That fast eh?! Sorry about that...

psidriven · 01/30/2008, 09:49 AM

Does it include time in the bag acclimating? If not, shortest has to be my friend's yellow striped cleaner fish. Went straight from the bag down onto a mini carpet anemone. Time actually in the tank alive had to be less than 5 seconds.

JoeMomma · 01/30/2008, 09:53 AM

psidriven - I would have to include the time the cleaner was being digested alive by the anemone. Lets add another couple minutes to that. :P

miwoodar · 01/30/2008, 09:57 AM

About 3 minutes. It was my very first salt fish. I dropped in a sebae clown and he spun in circles for about three minutes before kicking the bucket. To this day I have no idea why.

Jescd · 01/30/2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally posted by miwoodar
About 3 minutes. It was my very first salt fish. I dropped in a sebae clown and he spun in circles for about three minutes before kicking the bucket. To this day I have no idea why.

ouch - That sucks! I hope none of this stuff happens to when I get my tank set-up

geekreef_05 · 01/30/2008, 10:09 AM

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Originally posted by psidriven
Does it include time in the bag acclimating? If not, shortest has to be my friend's yellow striped cleaner fish. Went straight from the bag down onto a mini carpet anemone. Time actually in the tank alive had to be less than 5 seconds.

lol. thats a good story.

oscarsdad608 · 01/30/2008, 10:40 AM

When I first started I added a cleaner wrasse with my sixline,duh. The cleaner was killed in minutes.

killagoby · 01/30/2008, 10:45 AM

A Flame Angel. My brother bought him for me. He died before he could ever see him swim in my tank. A few hours at most...

DT's_Reef · 01/30/2008, 11:18 AM

My rainsford goby....introduced him in the tank and my 6-line wrasse killed him in less than 30 seconds. Literally tore chunks out of him. Poor goby, expensive snack.

JustinReef · 01/30/2008, 01:04 PM

I had a Mappa Puffer that thought the two clown fish I was adding to the tank was his dinner. After 3 weeks of QT, I dropped the clowns into the tank and the first one was eaten within maybe...3 seconds and the second within a few minutes...I felt really bad.

TheMcs · 01/30/2008, 01:18 PM

We had a polleni grouper in the store I ran, probably close to a year. One night a guy decided to buy it.
I bagged the fish (huge bag too), placed it on the counter in a styro. As I was ringing the guy up, the fish went belly up. I got him back in the system ASAP, he died within 5 minutes.
I would say, for the customer, having a fish die as you are buying it would be about as fast a death as you can get.

impur · 01/30/2008, 02:35 PM

6line wrasse. After acclimating i dropped him in, then went to get a beer. Came back and didn't see the fish in the tank. Few minutes later found it on the carpet behind the tank.

Maybe 2-3 min actually in the tank.

Twz · 01/30/2008, 04:06 PM

i had brought home two clowns put them in a plastic container,
my little sister had found the ''Nemos'' thought it would be fun to show the kitty dead in about 5 minutes... ='(

Lynden-Jeff · 01/30/2008, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by miwoodar
About 3 minutes. It was my very first salt fish. I dropped in a sebae clown and he spun in circles for about three minutes before kicking the bucket. To this day I have no idea why.

Did you forget the salt

pony_killer · 01/30/2008, 05:54 PM

put a yellow watchman goby (very small)...acclimated him for about an hour and a half...as soon as i "dropped" him into my tank the mama clown thought it was in her territory and swallowed him whole! =|

fish4lyfe · 01/30/2008, 06:04 PM

well 30 seconds after i got into my car with the fish, it just floated to the top. it was fiary wrasse

sk8rreefgeek · 01/30/2008, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TheMcs
We had a polleni grouper in the store I ran, probably close to a year. One night a guy decided to buy it.
I bagged the fish (huge bag too), placed it on the counter in a styro. As I was ringing the guy up, the fish went belly up. I got him back in the system ASAP, he died within 5 minutes.
I would say, for the customer, having a fish die as you are buying it would be about as fast a death as you can get.

any idea why? that's pretty weird

kathainbowen · 01/30/2008, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by sk8rreefgeek
any idea why? that's pretty weird

Possibly just too large of an animal to be bagged. Where I worked, animals that were just too large got put in a bucket with a secure lid.

AquaReeferMan · 01/30/2008, 06:33 PM

I had a Blue Throat Trigger last all but 1 minute in my tank. After acclimation I put him in on the left side of the tank. He made it over to the right side and ended up inside of my haddoni.

barandiaran · 01/30/2008, 06:52 PM

i had an anthias die in the bag on the way home once

01/30/2008, 09:23 AM	#1
JoeMomma Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 619	Shortest Lived Fish Ever I got this idea from another thread... What is the fastest you've had a fish die on you? I added a yellow watchman goby to my display and after about 12 hours I found him dead in my sumps filter sock.

01/30/2008, 09:32 AM	#3
zhenjw Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 128	I put a fish in QT and it died within 4 hours. Poor thing came from most bullied fish in the LFS tank to death by heater malfunction. __________________ Hautung der seele. Current Tank Info: Bio Cube 8&14, 35G Fuge, 180G~Frogspawn, Fungia, Open Brain, Xenia, Kenya Tree, Zoas, Tube Anemone, Tube Worm, Pink Milli, Metallic Grn Birdsnest, Baby Blue Acro, Green Donut, Orange Digi, Purple Lotoptes, Yellow Porite, Firefish, Carpntr Wrasse,

01/30/2008, 09:37 AM	#5
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	I watched someone work on a maintenance account and they added a firefish to a tank with a ray in it. I would say about 30 seconds. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

01/30/2008, 09:49 AM	#7
psidriven Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Westside Taipei Posts: 1,292	Does it include time in the bag acclimating? If not, shortest has to be my friend's yellow striped cleaner fish. Went straight from the bag down onto a mini carpet anemone. Time actually in the tank alive had to be less than 5 seconds. __________________ Trying to learn to read Chinese. Current Tank Info: 24 cube a go, baby walks

01/30/2008, 09:57 AM	#9
miwoodar Likey the bikey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,371	About 3 minutes. It was my very first salt fish. I dropped in a sebae clown and he spun in circles for about three minutes before kicking the bucket. To this day I have no idea why. __________________ Mike On hiatus. I'm either out riding my bicycle, playing with my family, or throwing ferts in my planted tank. Or working. I hope I'm not doing that though. Current Tank Info: 140 DIY Cube

01/30/2008, 09:31 AM	#2
tydtran Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 853	This is a pretty silly thread.

01/30/2008, 09:37 AM	#4
IceWish Registered Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Main Tank Fingering Frags Posts: 117	ive never had a fish that died really fast, ...well except for a yellow tang i had for one day after which i couldnt find him anywhere...a few weeks later when i was about to do a water change i found him on the top the center brace of my tank,..., he was fried from my halides... Nearly all my fish spent a night in my filter sock at one point or the other , the last one was a blue damsel., They usually only do it once or twice though.Even after i put in the eggcrate.

01/30/2008, 09:53 AM	#8
JoeMomma Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 619	psidriven - I would have to include the time the cleaner was being digested alive by the anemone. Lets add another couple minutes to that. :P

01/30/2008, 10:40 AM	#12
oscarsdad608 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: wi Posts: 243	When I first started I added a cleaner wrasse with my sixline,duh. The cleaner was killed in minutes. __________________ After this the tank will be finished I swear. Current Tank Info: I use everyones left overs

01/30/2008, 10:45 AM	#13
killagoby Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Monroe, NJ Posts: 2,150	A Flame Angel. My brother bought him for me. He died before he could ever see him swim in my tank. A few hours at most... __________________ How much money did you spend on that rock again?

01/30/2008, 11:18 AM	#14
DT's_Reef Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 3,083	My rainsford goby....introduced him in the tank and my 6-line wrasse killed him in less than 30 seconds. Literally tore chunks out of him. Poor goby, expensive snack. __________________ 85g starphire system, 38"x26"x20", 250w Radium SE + Galaxy Ballast + Lumenmax Elite reflector, Tunze Nano Wave Box, 2 Tunze Nano Streams, Profilux dosing system (2-part + vodka), ATB 840 Skimmer, Eheim 1262 return pump.

01/30/2008, 01:04 PM	#15
JustinReef Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3,715	I had a Mappa Puffer that thought the two clown fish I was adding to the tank was his dinner. After 3 weeks of QT, I dropped the clowns into the tank and the first one was eaten within maybe...3 seconds and the second within a few minutes...I felt really bad.

01/30/2008, 01:18 PM	#16
TheMcs Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Broken Arrow, OK Posts: 2,272	We had a polleni grouper in the store I ran, probably close to a year. One night a guy decided to buy it. I bagged the fish (huge bag too), placed it on the counter in a styro. As I was ringing the guy up, the fish went belly up. I got him back in the system ASAP, he died within 5 minutes. I would say, for the customer, having a fish die as you are buying it would be about as fast a death as you can get. __________________ Evaporation and top off don't count as water changes... Current Tank Info: 185g Deep Sea display, 2x 40g frag tanks, 90g fuge, 60g sump (400+ gal system)

01/30/2008, 02:35 PM	#17
impur Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Eugene, OR Posts: 4,262	6line wrasse. After acclimating i dropped him in, then went to get a beer. Came back and didn't see the fish in the tank. Few minutes later found it on the carpet behind the tank. Maybe 2-3 min actually in the tank. __________________ Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds. Current Tank Info: 75gal, 20gal sump, 6-54w T5 TEK

01/30/2008, 04:06 PM	#18
Twz Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Edmonton Posts: 628	i had brought home two clowns put them in a plastic container, my little sister had found the ''Nemos'' thought it would be fun to show the kitty dead in about 5 minutes... ='(

01/30/2008, 05:54 PM	#20
pony_killer Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Houston Posts: 322	put a yellow watchman goby (very small)...acclimated him for about an hour and a half...as soon as i "dropped" him into my tank the mama clown thought it was in her territory and swallowed him whole! =\|

01/30/2008, 06:04 PM	#21
fish4lyfe Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cedar park, texas! Posts: 367	well 30 seconds after i got into my car with the fish, it just floated to the top. it was fiary wrasse __________________ Send me pictures of your fish, or fishtanks i would love to see them! Current Tank Info: 29 gal

01/30/2008, 06:33 PM	#24
AquaReeferMan Got Reef? Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Under the Sea, Pa Posts: 4,593	I had a Blue Throat Trigger last all but 1 minute in my tank. After acclimation I put him in on the left side of the tank. He made it over to the right side and ended up inside of my haddoni. __________________ Couple SPS/Zoanthid tanks and a couple of FW planted tanks. Current Tank Info: 5 pieces of glass with some silicone and plastic frames holding them together

01/30/2008, 06:52 PM	#25
barandiaran Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 19	i had an anthias die in the bag on the way home once