Sixline gone :(

mark · #1 04-23-2009, 06:50 PM

understand NH3 and NO3 going up with a death but not sure about PO4.

globaldesigns · #2 04-23-2009, 07:13 PM

Sorry to hear about your sixline...

I just lost mine, it was my very first fish, when I started my 28gallon, moved it over to my 300 gallon when I sold the 28. Just last month I noticed it in the overflows, but couldn't get it out, then I noticed it was gone. When looking for it, the sixline somehow went down the durso standpipe and into the refuge. When I cleaned my skimmer and restarted it, It wouldn't work, found that the sixline went head first into the pump of my euro reef, decapitated. WHAT A WAY TO GO... Poor guy.

banditpowdercoat · #3 04-24-2009, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by mark

understand NH3 and NO3 going up with a death but not sure about PO4.

Well, allways had untraceable PO4 untill now. BUT, my cheato has shrunken to half its size 3 weeks ago

Delphinus · #4 04-24-2009, 05:23 AM

I lost my sixline about a week ago too. Weird to hear others as well. He was my oldest fish too, had him 8 years. Sort of a mixed bag of emotions, I did like him very much, but he was a mean fish to any newcomer, he also killed off a mandarin out of the blue. For any newcomer the only way to earn peace from him was to beat him up worse, then he'd leave that fish alone. So I can sort of see the other fish in the tank aren't broken up by the loss, but nevertheless, I'm sort of bummed out at the loss. Sorry to hear about yours guys losses too.

lobsterboy · #5 04-24-2009, 05:30 AM

srry to hear, mine went carpet surfing after a year. six lines are my favorite fish, always whippin around.

hillegom · #6 04-24-2009, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by lobsterboy

srry to hear, mine went carpet surfing after a year. six lines are my favorite fish, always whippin around.

Mine did the same thing, carpet surf. Went on holidays, the sitter left the lid off, and asurfing we will go.

digital-audiophile · #7 04-24-2009, 05:12 PM

I wouldn't be too sad.. one of the worst things I have done in my reef keeping career was add a sixline

banditpowdercoat · #8 04-24-2009, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by digital-audiophile

I wouldn't be too sad.. one of the worst things I have done in my reef keeping career was add a sixline

And why do you say that?