My Fish Just Threw Up!

FlyinggFish · 09/01/2009, 01:58 PM

Weird. This just happened. I fed my fish about 10 minutes ago (mysis) and I look at my tank and all of a sudden my Blue Hippo Tang starts spitting up all the mysis she ate. Kind of scary and interesting at the same time. I've seen fish try to eat something and if they don't like it spit it back out but never have I seen them actually regurgitate all of the food a 10 minutes later. And of course, she being a Blue Hippo Tang and all, she ate it all back up. Silly thing.
Has this every happened to anybody?

Mark426 · 09/01/2009, 02:17 PM

1 tsp. of Pepto per 10 gallons is the usual treatment.

Mark

p.s. Just kidding... dont worry...fish do that.

Flightpipe · 09/01/2009, 02:37 PM

Make him sit there till he finishes dinner!

+1 should be fine

Æonic · 09/01/2009, 02:40 PM

I've seen food get stuck in a fish and it takes them awhile to get it out.

seapug · 09/01/2009, 02:44 PM

My Tang almost died after trying to ingest a long stringy piece of squid that was in the Rod's Food. It was lying on its side twitching on the bottom of the tank and all I could see was about 1/4" of the piece of food sticking out of it's mouth. I picked it up and used a pair of tweezers to pull the piece of food out and it was fine instantaneously. Very strange experience.

FlyinggFish · 09/02/2009, 01:16 PM

Woah, seapug! Glad your tang is okay. They are such a silly fish.

McSassy · 09/02/2009, 03:02 PM

Perhaps it was trying to feed your corals. What a nice fishy. = )

clownaround2 · 09/02/2009, 08:23 PM

My yellow tang always goes for the biggest piece of nori. It usually gets stuck. He is busy trying to get it back out, because he can't handle it. I can see he is indistress. By than all the others tangs ate the rest of the nori. He finally spits it back out and the others come, eat his food, too. He get's nada...

Bruno3047 · 09/02/2009, 09:17 PM

Sometimes they just eat too much.

09/01/2009, 01:58 PM	#1
FlyinggFish Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ft. Lauderdale Posts: 1,042	My Fish Just Threw Up! Weird. This just happened. I fed my fish about 10 minutes ago (mysis) and I look at my tank and all of a sudden my Blue Hippo Tang starts spitting up all the mysis she ate. Kind of scary and interesting at the same time. I've seen fish try to eat something and if they don't like it spit it back out but never have I seen them actually regurgitate all of the food a 10 minutes later. And of course, she being a Blue Hippo Tang and all, she ate it all back up. Silly thing. Has this every happened to anybody? __________________ Most women buy clothes, I buy corals Current Tank Info: Biocube 29

09/01/2009, 02:37 PM	#3
Flightpipe Sea Turtles Love Me...... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pensacola, FL. Posts: 745	Make him sit there till he finishes dinner! +1 should be fine __________________ "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Current Tank Info: 29 BC Reef

09/01/2009, 02:44 PM	#5
seapug Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: 4980 ft. Posts: 7,954 Blog Entries: 1	My Tang almost died after trying to ingest a long stringy piece of squid that was in the Rod's Food. It was lying on its side twitching on the bottom of the tank and all I could see was about 1/4" of the piece of food sticking out of it's mouth. I picked it up and used a pair of tweezers to pull the piece of food out and it was fine instantaneously. Very strange experience. __________________ insert clever saying here. Current Tank Info: 200 gallon custom Marineland DD peninsular tank. LPS dominated mixed reef. Previous 90 gallon mixed reef TOTM April 2009.

09/02/2009, 01:16 PM	#6
FlyinggFish Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ft. Lauderdale Posts: 1,042	Woah, seapug! Glad your tang is okay. They are such a silly fish. __________________ Most women buy clothes, I buy corals Current Tank Info: Biocube 29

09/02/2009, 03:02 PM	#7
McSassy Master of my domain Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 188	Perhaps it was trying to feed your corals. What a nice fishy. = ) __________________ I eat ugly fish and keep colorful ones.

09/01/2009, 02:17 PM	#2
Mark426 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,479	1 tsp. of Pepto per 10 gallons is the usual treatment. Mark p.s. Just kidding... dont worry...fish do that.

09/01/2009, 02:40 PM	#4
Æonic Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 115	I've seen food get stuck in a fish and it takes them awhile to get it out.

09/02/2009, 08:23 PM	#8
clownaround2 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Orlando, Florida Posts: 174	My yellow tang always goes for the biggest piece of nori. It usually gets stuck. He is busy trying to get it back out, because he can't handle it. I can see he is indistress. By than all the others tangs ate the rest of the nori. He finally spits it back out and the others come, eat his food, too. He get's nada...

09/02/2009, 09:17 PM	#9
Bruno3047 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,018	Sometimes they just eat too much.