anybody else keep a death log?

salt creepette · 11-22-2003, 10:52 PM

Okay I think we all have established the fact that I am weird. But does anyone else here keep a log of livestock they have killed? Anybody want to share theirs? (can you tell im bored....)

heres mine:

by the way I started this hobby in June of this year.

blue devil damsel-not sure why died-$6
feather duster (lfs: "sure, you can put it in a new, just barely cycled tank" $12
black tail damsel-disappeared overnight-$6
sally lightfoot crab-disappeared after the move to texas-$8
royal gramma-lost to bacterial infection-$17
porcelain crab-put in tank one day, never saw again-$8
Tiny, the yellow clown goby-sucked into protein skimmer and turbulented to death-$invaluable, I loved that fish
sunrise dottyback-possible nitrite poisoning-$30
emerald crab-not sure, possibly acclimation failure-$10
scopas tang-wasnt healthy to start, not sure exact cause of death-$24
rhett, the clownfish-lost to oodinium-$35 (1/2 of a breeding pair)
cleaner shrimp-disappeared-$20
firefish-disappeared, not a jump out-$17

thats not only precious life, but $198 down the drain. come on, surely someone has done worse than me!

if this is a sick thread, feel free to ignore

just to balance it out, here is what I have not killed:

maroon clown-since 6/03
dragonet-since 7/03
blue assessor-since 7/03
hermit crabs and snails, do these count?
1 cleaner shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 scopas tang
1 sailfin tang
1 pseudochromis
3 chromis
1 ocellaris
1 royal gramma
1 yellow clown goby
1 emerald crab
1 sand sifting star

uh oh, I just realized that this is barely over 50%...

maybe this thread was a bad idea after all!

Ty_05_F · 11-22-2003, 11:08 PM

Nope I don't keep one. But then again I havnt ever lost a fish.

salt creepette · 11-22-2003, 11:15 PM

how long have you been in the hobby? what size tank do you have, and what livestock do you keep? maybe I can learn something from you

Ty_05_F · 11-22-2003, 11:18 PM

LoL my tank is onlya 25 gallon with a 10 gallon sump. I have only ben in this hobby for a year. My tank will be coming up on it's birthday pretty soon.

Ty_05_F · 11-22-2003, 11:19 PM

Also I keep easy fish. 1 coral beauty, 1 Ocellaris clown, 1 yellow clown goby, and 1 Yellow Tail damsel. I also have a 10 gallon sump.

salt creepette · 11-22-2003, 11:23 PM

awesome. see ive been at it for less than six months and youre making me look really bad!

but good for you. I am done with buying fish, I have plenty and four saltwater tanks! now I am just taking care of what Ive got. gorgeous tank by the way. love your gsp's and what do you feed your yellow clown goby? mine will only eat (vitamin soaked) frozen brine. I feed flakes, formula one, mysis, and vitamin/garlic soaked flakes, pellet formula one and occasional chunk of frozen shrimp....

Ty_05_F · 11-22-2003, 11:30 PM

He eats whatever floats by lol. It eats flake, frozen brine, live brine.

tims · 11-22-2003, 11:33 PM

ya kno w salt one day i am going to have to see what's in your head...

some of the questions you ask.........

i do not keep a log except what is in my head.

i have lost.

foxface
bat fish
banded coral shrimp.
4 green chromis.
brittle star. ( my daughter 4 at the time , thought it would be neat to take it out and play with it.)
sailfin blenny ( lawnmower blenny) got suck in a piece of LR.

that's it.
everyone else was traded in once i thought it was too big.

salt creepette · 11-22-2003, 11:52 PM

ty, i registered at the site you are registered on, i couldnt figure out how to add each fish though, would you mind assisting me?

tims, I told you I was weird.

I was just curious tonight, I thought, well I wonder how much livestock Ive gone through, then I started writing it down in my journal and it was kinda depressing. I thought, I wonder if anyone else has added it up. besides, my husband just took this job where he works weekends from 4 am to 5:30 pm and since he goes to bed so early I was bored.....

Ty_05_F · 11-23-2003, 12:52 AM

Did you figure it out. sorry I went to eat.

mandarinfreek · 11-23-2003, 07:36 AM

ok ok ok ...heres the killer ...in only 6 mos I have killed

1 yellow tang
1 kole tang
1 mandarin gobie
1 lawn mower gobie
2 percula clowns
2 green chromus
1 blue damsil (he was a tank cycler...I couldnt wait to get rid of him)
1 rust angel

ICK ICK ICK >...all because of ICK (well not the mandarin...he just died)

didnt have a hospital tank at the time....
me lerned sumpthing after that
oh wo is me...wohhhhh is me

Geoff · 11-23-2003, 10:15 AM

far to many to name.

been in the hobby so long, long before great info sources like this. so a lot was learn as you go and what info you can get from the LFS.

i am still finding out things here and looking back to a similar critter and realize what my error was at the time.

the only thing that matters is that you learn from it, so it does not happen again.

G~

salt creepette · 11-23-2003, 11:40 AM

ty, yes i figured it out.

mandarin, how long did you have the rust angel before he bit the bullet? was he otherwise hardy and a good eater?

geoff, I learn something new EVERY DAY!!! (sometimes multiple things!)

mandarinfreek · 11-23-2003, 12:09 PM

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Originally posted by salt creepette
mandarin, how long did you have the rust angel before he bit the bullet? was he otherwise hardy and a good eater?

Well the rust is the reason that I have now started using a hospital tank...he had the ick that killed all my other fishies