wrasseputin
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Well, been fish keeping a long time and Iv never quite screwed up like this before… after not seeing one of my reef dwellers for
Roughly a week I decided to check how little hidey hole and see he was ok. So I pulled up a couple pieces of rock and checked, sure as crap he was fine. So put everything back and went about my day and felt better he was alive. Couple hours later I see my gramma in the sand bed on his side, I go to check on him and he had what looked like abrasions and torn fins and was struggling… at first I thought maybe one of the others went crazy and attacked him, but the more I looked at him it looked like I must have pinned him in or under a piece of live rock I moved… omg I felt horrible… I got my isolation chamber
Out and got him into it to monitor him. I never thought I could feel that terrible about a fish.. but he was one of my favorites and one of my first salt water fish. It’s the first time I ever actually had to fight back tears over a dang fish… well I didn’t think he would make it threw the night, but somehow he did and was actually somewhat swimming the next day, and yesterday he was even more active but was acting super stressed about being in the isolation chamber. So I figured since he was swimming and showing some signs of improvement I’d let him back into the tank so he could go to his comfy spot and hopefully heal. Well unfortunately I just found him on the side of my wave maker…. Idk if I shouldn’t have released him or what… maybe he was to far gone idk. But all I know is it sucks and if it wasn’t for me being a dummy and worrying to much this wouldn’t have happened. Really feel Like a failure today, never thought I’d be this sad over a dang fish… really try to take care of all of
My animals and I feel like I just failed big time.. Iv had plenty of fish doe but never have been upset. But I actually killed this one, I’m their caretaker and I failed at my duty. That’s my rant, I screwed up… maybe I coulda done something to save him but idk.. live and learn I guess… I’m a dummy
Roughly a week I decided to check how little hidey hole and see he was ok. So I pulled up a couple pieces of rock and checked, sure as crap he was fine. So put everything back and went about my day and felt better he was alive. Couple hours later I see my gramma in the sand bed on his side, I go to check on him and he had what looked like abrasions and torn fins and was struggling… at first I thought maybe one of the others went crazy and attacked him, but the more I looked at him it looked like I must have pinned him in or under a piece of live rock I moved… omg I felt horrible… I got my isolation chamber
Out and got him into it to monitor him. I never thought I could feel that terrible about a fish.. but he was one of my favorites and one of my first salt water fish. It’s the first time I ever actually had to fight back tears over a dang fish… well I didn’t think he would make it threw the night, but somehow he did and was actually somewhat swimming the next day, and yesterday he was even more active but was acting super stressed about being in the isolation chamber. So I figured since he was swimming and showing some signs of improvement I’d let him back into the tank so he could go to his comfy spot and hopefully heal. Well unfortunately I just found him on the side of my wave maker…. Idk if I shouldn’t have released him or what… maybe he was to far gone idk. But all I know is it sucks and if it wasn’t for me being a dummy and worrying to much this wouldn’t have happened. Really feel Like a failure today, never thought I’d be this sad over a dang fish… really try to take care of all of
My animals and I feel like I just failed big time.. Iv had plenty of fish doe but never have been upset. But I actually killed this one, I’m their caretaker and I failed at my duty. That’s my rant, I screwed up… maybe I coulda done something to save him but idk.. live and learn I guess… I’m a dummy
