Jeremy Chatham
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This is my first time starting a new conversation but, I am really heartbroken over a baby blue hippo tang (1.5"-2") that committed suicide/ had an assisted suicide in an Vortech MP40.
I removed the sponge filters off the MP40s and cleaned them like usual, however this time I did not replace them so soon. It was nutrient transport time and the 120Gallon needed the fish poop to get to the overflows and down to my rollermat so I figured I would leave them off for now and replace them once the water calmed down a bit. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK. When I finally noticed about an hour later, my little blue hippo tang had made his way into the slots on the side of the MP40 and gotten pushed up against the front of the powerhead where the plastic blocks the front (where the water comes out). He was a bit scarred up and I could tell he went through the propeller. It was as if half of his body was incapacitated. One of his fins was moving and I thought he might just be stunned and come back, but he sank to the bottom where he spent his last few hours breathing heavily and doomed to lay on one side until he finally died.
I did not know what to do with him after I found him injured. Should I have snapped his neck to get the pain over with? Should I have flushed him to his quick death? I keep asking myself if I should have let him suffer like that just dying at the bottom of the tank.
What would you have done?
I removed the sponge filters off the MP40s and cleaned them like usual, however this time I did not replace them so soon. It was nutrient transport time and the 120Gallon needed the fish poop to get to the overflows and down to my rollermat so I figured I would leave them off for now and replace them once the water calmed down a bit. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK. When I finally noticed about an hour later, my little blue hippo tang had made his way into the slots on the side of the MP40 and gotten pushed up against the front of the powerhead where the plastic blocks the front (where the water comes out). He was a bit scarred up and I could tell he went through the propeller. It was as if half of his body was incapacitated. One of his fins was moving and I thought he might just be stunned and come back, but he sank to the bottom where he spent his last few hours breathing heavily and doomed to lay on one side until he finally died.
I did not know what to do with him after I found him injured. Should I have snapped his neck to get the pain over with? Should I have flushed him to his quick death? I keep asking myself if I should have let him suffer like that just dying at the bottom of the tank.
What would you have done?
