EvilMel
is a serious goby fanatic
So he died.
I'm not sure why he died...as is usual when fish die.
Everyone else in the tank is healthy and happy as can be.
He was always a pretty sensitive little guy. He did really well from the beginning, then when I decided to mess with his burrow to give him something to do he stopped eating for a bit and got fairly thin.
He'd been fine though because that was months ago and he was back up to a healthy weight again (after feeding him all the time).
I did have a slow salinity change over the past week due to an issue that I don't care to discuss on the forum. But let's just say the salinity may have dropped from about 1.025 to about 1.021 over the past week or more.
The first thing I really noticed him doing was that lately he seemed to change his burrows more (perching in front of different holes on different days, ones he normally did not perch in front of). Then a couple of days ago he moved to a spot in the back corner of the tank that wasn't dug out very much. Not THAT odd in my opinion.
Then last night, I saw that he was at the top of the tank, face pointed straight up, tail pointed down...and it looked like he was gasping for air out of the water. I also noticed that his back half seemed to be fairly devoid of scales and his fins looked kinda frayed/rough but not nipped. I knew that something was wrong with him at that point. I went into the other room once he'd swam back down to the bottom of the tank and ate dinner. When I came back into the room he was obviously in respiratory distress.
He couldn't swim properly and was sorta gasping for air, really bad. Nathan got really upset and yelled out "what's happening to Jaws?!?" He wasn't going to make it so I picked him up, trying to turn him back over and keep him from trying to swim.
He was just getting worse and worse. So I took him out of the tank and put him in the freezer to make his death faster. He went to sleep in the freezer really quickly and it was over.
I don't know why he died. When I went back in there after eating dinner, I did notice that in addition to half his scales being sloughed off, the right side of his eye/face looked like it was covered in a white film/shroud or something. I don't know if it was him producing some sorta slime from stress or what.
I don't know how old Jaws was. He was pretty big, but that doesn't seem like a "died of old age" kind of death to me. It couldn't be something like ich, obviously, he had no spots and my neon goby was darting around the tank the whole time.
Seems like if it were some sort of disease that it would have also taken out the blenny, neon goby, or high fin red banded goby. Ya know?
Anyways...I wanted to tell you guys because I know some of you really liked Jaws. We're pretty upset over here. I don't lose fish very often, so I'm taking it kinda badly.
I'm not sure why he died...as is usual when fish die.
Everyone else in the tank is healthy and happy as can be.
He was always a pretty sensitive little guy. He did really well from the beginning, then when I decided to mess with his burrow to give him something to do he stopped eating for a bit and got fairly thin.
He'd been fine though because that was months ago and he was back up to a healthy weight again (after feeding him all the time).
I did have a slow salinity change over the past week due to an issue that I don't care to discuss on the forum. But let's just say the salinity may have dropped from about 1.025 to about 1.021 over the past week or more.
The first thing I really noticed him doing was that lately he seemed to change his burrows more (perching in front of different holes on different days, ones he normally did not perch in front of). Then a couple of days ago he moved to a spot in the back corner of the tank that wasn't dug out very much. Not THAT odd in my opinion.
Then last night, I saw that he was at the top of the tank, face pointed straight up, tail pointed down...and it looked like he was gasping for air out of the water. I also noticed that his back half seemed to be fairly devoid of scales and his fins looked kinda frayed/rough but not nipped. I knew that something was wrong with him at that point. I went into the other room once he'd swam back down to the bottom of the tank and ate dinner. When I came back into the room he was obviously in respiratory distress.
He couldn't swim properly and was sorta gasping for air, really bad. Nathan got really upset and yelled out "what's happening to Jaws?!?" He wasn't going to make it so I picked him up, trying to turn him back over and keep him from trying to swim.
He was just getting worse and worse. So I took him out of the tank and put him in the freezer to make his death faster. He went to sleep in the freezer really quickly and it was over.
I don't know why he died. When I went back in there after eating dinner, I did notice that in addition to half his scales being sloughed off, the right side of his eye/face looked like it was covered in a white film/shroud or something. I don't know if it was him producing some sorta slime from stress or what.
I don't know how old Jaws was. He was pretty big, but that doesn't seem like a "died of old age" kind of death to me. It couldn't be something like ich, obviously, he had no spots and my neon goby was darting around the tank the whole time.
Seems like if it were some sort of disease that it would have also taken out the blenny, neon goby, or high fin red banded goby. Ya know?
Anyways...I wanted to tell you guys because I know some of you really liked Jaws. We're pretty upset over here. I don't lose fish very often, so I'm taking it kinda badly.
