My fish just jumped?

FRANK GRAZIANO · May 22, 2020

Valimige tang just jumped out about a 6 foot drop. I picked it up 2 seconds after put it back in. Tail looks white at the tail joint. I turned the lights off imedlty and dosed multiple Vitamins. I'm about to do a 20% water change in about 1 hour when water is ready. Yellow tang was picking on it put a mirror on the glass to distract it. Any other ideas to save my favorite fish life?valimige is in a small cave sometimes laying down breathing has slowed but was high at 1st. If you have any other tips let me know it's my favorite fish

andrewey · May 22, 2020

So sorry to hear that happened! I hope everything is alright. Any reason for the water change- was this scheduled or is this in response to the jumping?

SeaJay · May 22, 2020

I’ve had a couple gobies survive quarantine escapes and one that didn’t. I’ve never had one that I got back in the water within a couple minutes die on me after.

Recently I accidentally left a lid open after doing some maintenance and lost my blue spot jaw. Pretty discouraging and unfortunate mistake on my part.

FRANK GRAZIANO · May 22, 2020

Trying everything to have fish breathe right also removed some zoa coral earlier and it always makes the vlamingi act odd

robbyg · May 22, 2020

Is the tail fin moving or is it stationary?

jsvand5 · May 22, 2020

Not really much you can do at this point. It will either recover on its own or die. Best advice would be to get a lid for the future. It will happen again with other fish as well. Fish will definitely jump, especially if a tang or other fish harasses them. I hear my fairy wrasses jumping almost daily. I have a fully enclosed hood though so it’s not really a problem.

Vlamingii get big fast. 6ft tank won’t work out for very long.

hobbyreefer · May 22, 2020

I was scrapping my glass a few months back and my foxface jumped. 6’ drop and laid on the floor for a bit. I scooped him up and dropped him back in the tank. He was totally fine. Hopefully you will have the same luck.

FRANK GRAZIANO · May 22, 2020

The vlamingi jumped twice both times was after removing zoeanthids. It makes it crazy. 1st time I didn't think anything of it . Now I know. Really only started thread to see if any tips on saving its life. Don't really care about captain Honsites opinion.

Aquavaj · May 22, 2020

I'd skip the water change. That might stress it out even more.

Crustaceon · May 22, 2020

I cringe everytime I see a tank with clownfish and no lid. IME they have a knack for escaping and carpet surfing, especially if they sleep at the surface.

Hemmdog · May 22, 2020

Crustaceon said:
I cringe everytime I see a tank with clownfish and no lid. IME they have a knack for escaping and carpet surfing, especially if they sleep at the surface.

Really? I have a harem with no lid. I haven’t lost any. Any particular species?

FRANK GRAZIANO · May 22, 2020

I think your wrong will bring down the orp it's at 450 and I had a bit of a amonona form a large snail death on Monday. 20% water change isn't very aggressive.

Angelwolf21203 · May 22, 2020

I would put in a a couple drops of garlic, dose vitamin C, and stress coat, and leave the tank alone. I agree with someone else who said that the WC will add undue stress. Do it tomorrow. But--It's your tank and your fish, so do what you want.

Aquavaj · May 22, 2020

Well that changes things a bit. I thought you were doing a wc solely because the fish jumped.

Crustaceon · May 22, 2020

Hemmdog said:
Really? I have a harem with no lid. I haven’t lost any. Any particular species?

I’ve lost two ocellaris through no bigger than a 1/4” gap in a glass lid near my return line the first time and a 1/4” gap between the bottom of the lid and the overflow box the second time. Since this was an HOB overflow with a u-tube, that clown had to have then jumped out of the in-tank box and over the rim of the tank. Both were lost early in the am and were never picked on by other fish. On my 29 gallon, I actually watched a third ocellaris jump into the gap between the lid and the top of an old tunze nano skimmer (the really rectangular one) that was above water level. I saw it flopping essentially on top of the lid and threw it right back in. After that, I made sure there was no gaps bigger than 1/8” on any of my tanks and was the main reason why I drilled my 55g for an eshopps prodigy overflow as I was then able
to fully cover the in-tank overflow.

Crustaceon · May 22, 2020

All of my ocellaris were surface sleepers. I honestly think they have fishy dreams because sometimes I’ll hear them freak out in the middle of the night and splash water out of the tank. I’ll bet this is what spurs them to jump.

Hemmdog · May 22, 2020

Crustaceon said:
All of my ocellaris were surface sleepers. I honestly think they have fishy dreams because sometimes I’ll hear them freak out in the middle of the night and splash water out of the tank. I’ll bet this is what spurs them to jump.

Interesting. I have two bottom corner sleepers, a goniapora sleeper, and two surface sleepers. During the day they all hangout together in the goni.

Angelwolf21203 · May 22, 2020

Hemmdog said:
Interesting. I have two bottom corner sleepers, a goniapora sleeper, and two surface sleepers. During the day they all hangout together in the goni.

My maroon sleeps at the bottom right next to her shriveled anenome.

dwair · May 22, 2020

Angelwolf21203 said:
My maroon sleeps at the bottom right next to her shriveled anenome.

Is the Anenome shriveled cause the Maroon loves it so much? Lol

FRANK GRAZIANO · May 22, 2020

Just did the water change lights are still off but fish already looks better was laying down in a cave and is now out but my yellow tang is striking him. But softly. Dosed more multi vitamins after change. Also put bubble stone on for it.