Best Fish Rescuing Success Stories
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melypr1985
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I have an Indigo Hamlet at the store. He's very flighty and tends to jump. The tank he's in does usually have lids on it, but when catching a fish for sale or cleaning the tank the lid is off. He jumped out of the tank and landed a good 5 feet away on the back side of the tank (there are sale tanks back there with a walkway so plenty of room to get that far). We weren't all that busy and I was cleaning the tank. I walked away for a bit and when I happened to walk behind the tank I saw him on the floor near the cichlids. I seriously thought he was cichlid that had jumped so I dumped him in the nearest freshwater tank. Well, he looked really weird and was having a really hard time breathing. It finally dawned on me that it was the Hamlet!! Eeeek! Into the saltwater he went quick, fast and in a hurry! I held him to the flow from the return for a few minutes and let him go. That was about 6 months ago. He has since jumped out of the tank, nearly dried out 5 more times while catching fish or cleaning the tank. Each and every time he gets a little help from the return flow and minutes later he's back to bullying and eating everything in sight. I would move him to another tank, but he's best suited for the tankmates in this tank. I haven't sold him because my manager wants to take him home. This thing seems like it will survive anything.
boy this story makes me feel kinda dumb. lol
boy this story makes me feel kinda dumb. lol
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I like your story; made me laugh because I had a mudskipper that did the same thing. Would find it on the floor every morning until I put a lid on it. [emoji36]
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Years ago, we had a 6-line wrasse who jammed itself into a hole in a rock so tightly that it couldn't back out of it, and was thrashing about as it tried to free itself. My clever husband used an electric dremel tool tool to free the wrasse as carefully as possible, but the fish was still really cut up from trying to free itself unsuccessfully from the rock. We placed it into a hospital tank with Methyl blue (not having knowledge about other antibiotic treatments at the time), though we had little hope for its recovery. Remarkably, given time, the wrasse healed completely and was returned to its home in our DT. We named him Mel, as he ate so much he was round like a watermelon; which probably lead to his predicament in the first place! 
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On craigslist i found a guy selling his 30 gallon tank and inside was a niger trigger, picasso trigger, and a snowflake eel all thin. The picasso trigger looked gray and had pop eye. The niger trigger had a deformed mouth and looked like it had fin rot and the eel was gray. I quickly put them into my tank gave them my homemade food with lots of selcon. Over a course of a few weeks the picasso trigger fixed his eye and we got to see the yellow and blue like a normal trigger has. The niger's fins grew back and the jaw looks more straight and the eel has grown to be a 20 inch giant.
