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I accidentally killed one of my three cherry barbs while I was moving (I hadn't sealed the bucket as well as I thought I had and two of them tumbled out). There was a kind of cupholder-shaped hole in the back, and enough water landed in it that one of the other barbs was floating inside. She died of generic "I was the wrong temperature for a long time" fish disease a couple of days later. I've probably killed a bunch of the other fish by not cleaning the water right or getting the temperature a little bit wrong, but with fish, it's always pretty hard to tell if it was you or natural causes. About a year ago, I made the decision not to keep my fish tank after the current batch of them die, and predictably, there's one blue that somehow keeps hanging on. They're dither fish and they like to school, so how this little guy has kept from freaking himself to death is a mystery to me. I still feed him and change his water, but we really want that tank gone, and there are times when I just stare and think about how easy it would be. Down the toilet with him. I don't have the heart to do it, though. I was so upset about those barbs, I couldn't do it on purpose.
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Neitherman posted:
Tetras really, really love to commit suicide. My brother had one take the floor dive (we finally found him after staring at the tank for probably an hour), and we still don't know how he did it. It was a pretty well-sealed tank and he would have had to try pretty hard to hop out of the small opening in the back.
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METATERREN posted:As a kid, the neighbor girl put her pet rabbit into a tupperware container and put her under the bed to keep her safe. If it's any consolation, the poor rabbit may have been so frightened that the fear killed it before it had the chance to suffocate. 
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Parahexavoctal posted:
Curiously, the same reaction most people will have after reading that post. 
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Parahexavoctal posted:
On reconsideration, I'm actually wondering if this isn't referring to the hamster at all, and if Parahexavoctal died of misery a couple of years after mom invented Operation Desert Hamsters.
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