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04/21/2006, 04:02 PM | #1 |
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Occellaris clown jumpped into bucket of RODI! Will he make it!?
Today my occelarris clown jumpped out of the tank into a waiting bucket of RO/DI water. He was in the bucket for probably 45 minutes up to 1.5 hours. When I noticed him in there he was still breathing, and moving a bit, but he was laying on his side on the bottom not swimming.
I imediately put him back in my display and he rolled around not looking so good, and my cleaner went after him. So i netted him and held him in the net for observation. He looks ok except his eyes seem cloudy, he stays upside down mostly, and he is in no shape to be in my display because his movement is very lethargic and doesn't seem controlled. He does not seem to like being in the net however. I put him down in my fuge becaue I think the low flow will be better for him. He is breathing heavily, his eyes look cloudy, and he is not really swimming around. Anyone think he will live? Should I consider putting him out of his misery? I feel absolutely awful about this, and will be taking mesures to prevent this from happening again. =( |
04/21/2006, 09:45 PM | #2 |
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Give him time, many clowns are given FW dips for sometimes up to 30 minutes. He might pull through, I think the temp of the water and the longevity of the RODI water could have hurt him bad, but he still might pull through.
hang in there
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04/21/2006, 10:33 PM | #3 |
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alass he did not make it... I think the RO was too cool and he was in there too long =(
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04/22/2006, 06:54 PM | #4 |
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hang in there, it wasn't your fault, clowns don't usually jump but as you know sometimes they do.
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04/22/2006, 08:05 PM | #5 |
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They adapt to dropping salinity much better than they adapt to rising salinity. Taking him from a bucket of 1.000 back into a tank of 1.025ish probably wasn't the best thing to do (dissolved O2 content)... but its a panic reaction and I probably would have done it too.
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04/23/2006, 06:40 AM | #6 |
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Sorry about your fish
When doing freshwater dips, fish are moved from the dip back to normal salinity without issue..I am sure it was due to the lenth of time it was in the RO/DI water that did him in. I am surprised it didn't die in the bucket since it had no oxygen
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