A moment of silence please...

[DABruecker]

I would like to ask everyone to please take a moment of silence for "Fin". Fin was my Hi-fin Banded Goby, a straping young fish with his whole life ahead of him. I had noticed he had been absent last night during my usual feeding ritual, so this morning I took my entire nano tank apart to find my beloved Fin. Just as I was removing the last rock from the tank I looked down and to my horror there was fin....dried up and brittle. It appears that I must have left the top open during some regular maintenace and Fin saw his chance at escape...although I did not see his olympic grade jump I know it must have spectacular! I can only hope Fin is in a better place, (other than my toilet) and that he is filling himself up on mysis shrimp and baby brine. I will be seeking out Fin2 in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for your prayers.

Denise

 

[DebsSisterFlo]

aw, so sorry for your loss. Hope you find Fin2 soon!

 

[John@JP]

I will pour a libation from my 40 of bud light in Fin's memory.

 

[gooch]

I know how you feel. My 90 got ich two weeks ago. I lost my true perc pair, my beta, my six line, my flame angel and flameback angel. The only change I made to the tank was putting a nub of zoanthids I got in trade into the tank. I still do not know what caused it. That was the most stable tank I have. Never had a disease in the four years it has been running. I was able to save my hippo and sailfin. I fed the tank ginger root. Withing two days the hippo went from laying on the bottom near dead to totally cured. Sailfin took four days. Unfortunately I didn't try it until almost the entire tank was dead or near dead. I always had luck with garlic in my other tanks but it did nothing with this one.

Two days ago I had one of my green chromis do a suicide flop right in front of me. I dropped her back in the tank and she has a new lease on life so I was lucky there.

 

[kass03]

Aw sorry Denise.
I know I cried when I found my 8 yr old hippo on the floor.

Sorry for you also Gooch. I had a near wipeout once many years ago (I think it was velvet disease from adding a bunch of new live rock and the tank cycling again a bit)
After that I used my Sano products and never lost fish again due to ich.

kass

 

[XeniaMania]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything along the line of "Will make sure the tank is covered from now on".

 

[scooters reef]

Kass, that wasn't Bluey was it?