Fire Eel Died ?

[giant19000]

my 12inch fire eel died just this morning like at 3-4am it was raining and a little thunder the top was coverd and i went to the fishdtore and he said maybe he got scared and jumped and i think thats what happened because the rain was reallly loud and the thunder was like big giant bangs..after 2years with him i honestly cried he always came out when he saw me walking up to the tank he was came when my baby was crying and that used to cheer her up im soo used to seeing him swim around and look for me.
i look at my tank now and to me its empty ive kept fish for years and this 1 is my favorite 1..
my wife had bought him for me as an anniversaury present last 2 octobers..and he died this october ??
my wife bought me another 1 this morning but everytime i look at the tank i just think of my eel and how it cant be replaced !
i truly miss him i dnt know what i can do i dnt ever want to forget him and i wont.
the time i saw him on the floor dry and hard after 4hrs because i woke up at 10 am and he had been on the floor without me knowing for hours i blame myself,
the picture of him dead in front of his tank doesnt leave my mind its like thats the spot were he died ,and no matter what its always going to be....i miss him my grievous i cant forget the time i bought him as a 3inch baby .what do you think couldve happened and why he jumped out and how??

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Sorry for your loss, I lost the two fish that hooked me on riverine fish recently, my two beloved Opsarius pulchellus (avatar). I too cried many times during the first week. One of them bloated up and looked very Dropsy-like, while the other had no physical signs to see anything was wrong, only that the nioght before he was swimming much higher up the tank than normal (although no signs of gasping or unbalance).

In such circumstances, all we can do is try and analyse the events leading upto the sad deaths and see if we could have done anythinge better/different. In your case, I would suggest that you make that tank lid "bullet proof" for the new, Fire Eel youngster.

 

[england]

Mate happens to everyone, but i know how you feel, when i sold my 5/2/2 with all my prize fish, i was gutted, then to learn the the new buyer had lost 95% of them to a unfortunate reason, cut me a little, gutted to say the least, seeing as they were all fully grown and been with me forever, but as stated, work out what happened the learn from mistakes.
Ensure every possible gaps covered and weigh the lid down with something, like my tanks with the flimsy lids have weights on, enough to ensure nothing can jump ship, my chocolate has a addiction for jumping and wacking his bonce on the lid, as iam typing hes done it three times, ive tried floating plants but he eats them, but if you can get something like duckeweed, grow a thin blanet across the top, this helps with jumpers, not fool proof mind

 

[fluttermoth]

I am so sorry for your loss, giant19000

I know exactly how you feel; I had an outbreak of a really nasty viral septicaemia a few years ago that killed my two very beloved rescued common plecs (Moomintroll and Hemulen) an Oscar (Wilde) and Gulpy, an unknown species of cichlid. I tried absolutely everything for weeks and weeks and they still died; I feel bad about it even now