Cockatoo died GRAPHIC

Lionfish Lair · Feb 1, 2017

One minute she was fine and I was thawing out food for the fish. The next minute this....

Looks like they hemmoraged.

melypr1985 · Feb 1, 2017

I thought I was going to see a dead bird! I've never heard of this kind of fish before much less seen one. It does look like he bled out into that area. I'm just wondering what caused it. No lethargy or lack of appetite at all?

tupes · Feb 1, 2017

#reefsquad

lion king · Feb 1, 2017

What a bummer, how long did you have him. Thank you for sharing.

pga7602 · Feb 1, 2017

Ao sorry Renee. That fish must have been very hard to optain. I see you are still at it with the unusual

Fin · Feb 1, 2017

@Humblefish

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 1, 2017

Dang, sorry Renee.
That's a wildly cool fish too.

Bdog4u2 · Feb 1, 2017

So ugly he's cool. did he swallow something he shouldn't of

Bdog4u2 · Feb 1, 2017

Is he a type of waspfish? my buddy had a ban tail years ago until he got stung and had to go to the hospital from a bad reaction. his was bright red

melypr1985 · Feb 1, 2017

Bdog4u2 said:
Is he a type of waspfish?

It is! I looked it up after the first post. I was super curious. Really neat fish.

Maritimer · Feb 1, 2017

So very sorry for your loss of this weirdly charming fish!

Are those ovaries loaded with eggs that we're looking at? Wonder if she was eggbound, perhaps? I know that at our Public Aquarium, they place dead coral skeletons into tanks with sea ravens, as if the sea ravens don't have an appropriate place to lay, things can go ... badly.

~Bruce

Jonath · Feb 1, 2017

I never seen this fish. Sorry for your lost. Do you have any video of him or her

Lionfish Lair · Feb 1, 2017

melypr1985 said:
I thought I was going to see a dead bird! I've never heard of this kind of fish before much less seen one. It does look like he bled out into that area. I'm just wondering what caused it. No lethargy or lack of appetite at all?

He was perfect yesterday. I looked for external indications that he had been stung accidentally by the lion, but I couldn't find any damage. The lion's spine wasn't unsheathed, so I think that's out.

lion king said:
What a bummer, how long did you have him. Thank you for sharing.

A year now.

pga7602 said:
Ao sorry Renee. That fish must have been very hard to optain. I see you are still at it with the unusual

You know me!!! Yes, he's definitely hard to come by.

saltyfilmfolks said:
Dang, sorry Renee.
That's a wildly cool fish too.

Thanks. It tis a bummer indeed

Bdog4u2 said:
So ugly he's cool. did he swallow something he shouldn't of

Nothing foreign was found when I hacked into him.

Bdog4u2 said:
Is he a type of waspfish? my buddy had a ban tail years ago until he got stung and had to go to the hospital from a bad reaction. his was bright red

Yes, he's a waspfish and they have nasty stings indeed. Their venom is more potent than a lion.

Lionfish Lair · Feb 1, 2017

Maritimer said:
So very sorry for your loss of this weirdly charming fish!

Are those ovaries loaded with eggs that we're looking at? Wonder if she was eggbound, perhaps? I know that at our Public Aquarium, they place dead coral skeletons into tanks with sea ravens, as if the sea ravens don't have an appropriate place to lay, things can go ... badly.

~Bruce

At first I was like "What the heck is THAT?". I thought it was a male because this one was a bit of a butt when compared to my last. That's what I get for practicing anthropomorphism.... "anti-male" anthropomorphism at that. LOL! I slapped some tissue under a microscope and they do indeed look like eggs. One gonad pathology found in fish is haemorrhage and it's a highly vascularized area with big ole vessels. There was zero blood anywhere else. It was fresh blood and not leaky old blood and no infection could be seen.

Jonath said:
I never seen this fish. Sorry for your lost. Do you have any video of him or her

This is her asking for food.

saltyfilmfolks · Feb 1, 2017

Lionfish Lair said:
Yes, he's a waspfish and they have nasty stings indeed. Their venom is more potent than a lion.

That's just awesome right there.

Lionfish Lair said:
LOL! I slapped some tissue under a microscope and they do indeed look like eggs. One gonad pathology found in fish is haemorrhage and it's a highly vascularized area with big ole vessels. There was zero blood anywhere else. It was fresh blood and not leaky old blood and no infection could be seen.

It mis carried?