Carpet Surfing Rescue Stories

[Saltfishonly]

Not sure if this has already been posted but figured it would be a interesting thread maybe help out some one in the future (hopefully no one has to experience this)

I’ll start with my first ever experience that happen to me few days ago


Month ago my golden Midas blenny died a few days after a water change we had a bad batch of SW our fault too for not checking the salinity before adding it “note to self for checking now)

So we replaced the little guy with a baby little guy on Thursday

just as I was getting ready to leave for a few hours at the market,my cousin calls me and just i was mentioning I got a new blenny (it was her favorite too) I was watching the tank and I saw my blenny literally go Zoom! Zoom! Up! Splash ! “Omg !!!! My blenny jumped out I’ll call you back...he fell behind the tank my hand can’t fit through but I can hear him flapping around and I’m nervous at the same time panicking,got my feeding tongs it can’t reach him,quickly I grabbed a plastic hanger

I used it to pull him closer carefully then grabbed the tongs to get him before he flaps away..i look at him he is not breathing quickly i threw him back in the tank...he was out for 3 minutes

I know this cause instantly I called my husband when it happen..


when I threw him back in he laid there flat on the sand..looked like my wrasses was concerned honestly staring at him,here comes the puffer looking for a snack “don’t you even think about nipping at him” I scared him away with the tongs

He started breathing!!! He swimmed to perch on the heater for a few minutes then went into his barnacle shell to recover I felt so bad for the little guy..I kept monitoring him..he didn’t even change in color he stayed golden all the way


I was not expecting him to last the Night for his young age and what he went through..the very next day he was up and eating and swimming like. I thing ever happened


I was panic and heart was racing but I’m so happy I stayed home for that extra few minutes cause he would Not of been alive when I came home to save him


I know it’s a long post sorry..but if you have a story like this please share good outcome or bad


also I want to add,I know blennies are jumpers my lids was all shut,however I was not aware there is a tiny open in the back about half a inch cause of the hoses from all the filters so I fixed this and it’s fully covered Now


Share yours!

 

[Auquanut]

Okay. I'll share, but mine was fresh water.
I have a very large Dojo Loach that I kept in my COVERED 125 planted tank. I came home from work one day to find him dry, dark, and covered in dog hair (gimme a break, I have dogs). When I went to pick him up, he moved slightly and I immediately threw him back into the tank dog hair and all. He was in horrible shape, and became a target for the other fish in this semi-aggressive tank. So within an hour of coming off of the floor, he went into my 20 gallon community tank. It took him months to recover fully. He had lesions on his skin that took forever to heal. When he looked like he might survive, he went into my 55, where he has been happy and healthy ever since. That was probably 3 years ago.

 

[Billdogg]

Not too long after I got in to the hobby, I got myself an Eel. I worked part time at a LFS and it came in on fish day. Listed as "assorted Eel". About 16" long but thick. Cool! Free Eel! I took it home and put it in a 75 with a ribbon eel. Neither ate for a couple weeks, until I started bring home a few small chromis/damsels. The ribbon eel gobbled them up in no time. I left, and the "assorted" eel had eaten the ribbon eel.:mad: I named him Hannibal the Cannibal.

Anyway. I got a 150 long that I moved Hannibal to, along with a couple larger fish - a 14" yellow puffer and a 14-16" Emperor Snapper that had been brought to the store because "they got too big for my 90" . Hannibal tried to eat them too so they went to another home. Hannibal lived in the 150 for another 24 years. He escaped three times from a (I thought) well covered tank. I used eggcrate with pieces of LR at the corners. Not big enough pieces at first. The first time I found him dried out on the floor. Thinking he was dead, I nudged him with my foot and he moved a little. I picked him up, dropped him in the tank, and went to work. When I got home the only sign that something was wrong was a nasty bacterial infection from the back of his jaws about halfway down his body. (he had grown to about 30" by then. He was eating a couple large fillets a week by then, so I stuffed meds into them and he recovered in a few weeks. I also used bigger pieces of LR to weigh down the top.

The second time, It was water change day. I went down in the basement to get something and I came back up and he was behind the tank. How do you get a now nearly 40" po'd eel from behind a 6' stand? Carefully. Wearing a leather biker jacket and thick gloves. Another couple weeks of meds in his food and all was well.

The third time was when I was moving his tank. I had caught him easily enough. He could be picked up in a 5g bucket if he was in head first. I had him in a brute can with lid while I moved things, so a few hours anyway. When I took the lid off the brute he shot right out. I about had the big one right then and there!

 

[saltyhog]

Mine was a Yellow wrasse (Halichoeres chrysus) that seemed bent on suicide. I have had a cover on my tank since day 1 and this guy had managed to jump out 6 times previous to this story. Each time was when a lid was off to do maintenance.
This time the little guy decided to jump out the back of the tank in the exact middle of my 6 foot tank. The tank was only about 4" from the wall and the whole bottom of the stand was filled with a custom sump, reactors and a large RO/DI storage tank for my ATO. There was no way to reach him from the stand without emptying the 16 gallon ATO reservoir and removing it.

I raced to the kitchen and got a small broom there and used it to sweep him close enough that I could reach him. The tank had been set up in that location for several years and let's just say there were some "dust bunnies" behind it. The poor little guy looked like a small bat of pillow stuffing! I grabbed a pitcher and took out enough water to clean him up as well as I could. He looked rough for a few hours but went on to live for several years after that and believe it or not never jumped again.

 

[Saltfishonly]

Okay. I'll share, but mine was fresh water.
I have a very large Dojo Loach that I kept in my COVERED 125 planted tank. I came home from work one day to find him dry, dark, and covered in dog hair (gimme a break, I have dogs). When I went to pick him up, he moved slightly and I immediately threw him back into the tank dog hair and all. He was in horrible shape, and became a target for the other fish in this semi-aggressive tank. So within an hour of coming off of the floor, he went into my 20 gallon community tank. It took him months to recover fully. He had lesions on his skin that took forever to heal. When he looked like he might survive, he went into my 55, where he has been happy and healthy ever since. That was probably 3 years ago.

happy to hear he recovered btw don’t feel guilty I have a husky so you can imagine he had husky fur and a little dust,I did the same my main concern was the same get him in that water!