I lost my 16" silver today. i got him about 6 months ago and he was about 3-4 inches when i got him. i came home from work and he was vertical rather than horizontal. i saw his gils curling and knew he was done for it.



i did a water change last night. 1/3 in a 40 gallon tank. im thinking i did not add enough stress tyme and chorine remover. i was just about to buy him a 100 gallon tank this weekend too.



this is a pic of him when he was small







i couldnt stand to take a pic of him dead but this is what he looked like, just about the same size too.

 

that fish is pimp.





RIP pimp fish

 

He's the west coast version of GTC's cat, but not a cat.

 

We had a fish that had been in the family since I was a really young toddler, it was some sort of weatherfish and was really hardy. Everything else in the tanks before had died but it kept on going. Finally one day when I was around 12-13 it jumped out of its tank and committed seppuku. Nice arowana though, aren't those the fish that keep their young in their mouths?

 

Wow thats a nice aro, sad it died, they are a really cool fish to have, and a rare one at that, Ide get one but i dont have a bigenough tank, a 40 gal is hardly enough in its own, but sorry to hear for the loss, fish are cool, I have many.



R.I.P Fishy.

 

yeah the 40 gallon was starting to get too small for him. so i was gonna trade that one in this weekend and get a 100 gallon for 40 bucks more. he got so gib from the start cause i was feeding him feeders, crickets and pellets. but then went strictly to feeders.



when i woke up this morning, it felt really weird looking into the tank and seeing nothing in there. ive also had about 3 algae eaters in his time in that tank, and he killed em all. he was a pretty badass fish. got him for 15 bucks, was maybe worth 100-125 before he died.

 

Wow. That's a badass fish. I'm sorry he's gone.

 

pic of him with 2 2" feeders in his mouth. you can only see one

 

Sorry your fish died.



But I gotta be honest, having that thing in my living room would freak me the hell out. That's a freaky-lookin' fish. Where do they live naturally?

 

Are you going to eat it?



Mark