How many creatures have died in your care?

[loonz]

I am responsible for quite a number of fishes and corals when i first started,and had not much guidance(and some less than honest LFS who tried to sell me everything and told me they would live).But that slowly changed when i started learning loads of stuff off the internet and the forums like this one, and reading books of cos.Cannot really remember how many creatures exactly,but the most painful losses would be a yellow tang that was with me for 2 years and 2 hippo tangs that survived more than a year.Had tried to keep bicolor angels unsuccessfully,but one did quite well for a few months before it jumped out of the tank and was only found a few days later.

 

[Anonymous]

For me things either die within days or live for years. I attribute these usually to bad shipping or the shock of being introduced. I also had a jawfish jump in the 3rd week of quarantene. The exception was a little percula, one of two, that just started wasting away after 2 years, and did this for months, and finally died. Its mate is still fine. I have no idea why this happened. If you add to this the many snails, etc., that come and go, I guess the death toll can look pretty horrendous, and I have had good luck compared to many people here, so far.

I also had a suspected food poisoning about 6 months ago that killed my batfish and a bubble tipped anemone (2 different tanks) and made my trigger sick for awhile (yet another tank). That is probably my worst disaster, because all of those I have had for at least 2 years.

 

[DEADFISH1]

I plead the 5th.

 

[davelin315]

Not a popular topic, and I've avoided looking at it several times already, but what the hell. I've killed my fair share of fish and inverts, I would say in the years that I've had my tanks, and the amount of money I've dropped into my tanks versus how much I currently have, I've probably killed a hundred fish, inverts or corals (or maybe more). I would attribute a small portion of these deaths to ignorance and lack of research, or misinformation on the habits, unhealthy specimens takes up a significant chunk, and another small portion to plain stupidity on my part or just lack of diligence in keeping it up, and another small portion I would attribute to foreign factors (such as bad food). It sounds like a lot, but think about how much money you've pumped into livestock for your tank and how you'd probably need a few thousand gallons to house all the proper growth you would have experienced had these investments not died.