You know that scene in Alien?

wangspeed · Jun 16, 2019

Well that’s basically what happened to one of my 6 resplendent anthias. Poor guy ate so much that I could see he had a clogged intestinal tract. It finally opened outwards and quickly became a large hole where you could see all the food or whatever was stopping him up. He went up to a cleaner shrimp and it ate it out of him...

I have some serious doubts he will make it. It’s a severe hole right into his digestive tract

Mjrenz · Jun 16, 2019

Do you have a qt set up? He'll probably need antibiotics. @ngoodermuth @4FordFamily @HotRocks

wangspeed · Jun 16, 2019

Mjrenz said:
Do you have a qt set up? He'll probably need antibiotics. @ngoodermuth @4FordFamily @HotRocks

I have a batch of fish in QT right now. I wouldn’t want to throw him in there. Also, this guy is going to be super hard to catch. He’s currently acting normal. Feisty even. He’s one of 2 male resplendents and he’s chasing some of the females around.

I’m leaning towards leaving him.

wangspeed · Jun 20, 2019

Update on the anthias. His wound is closing and his scales have flattened back down. It’s looking promising! Tough little fish.

I definitely have some misfits in my tank. I have 2 rescued bellus angels with issues. One has a bad eye. The other has a permanent swim bladder issue. Now this anthias. He’ll have a scar for sure but I think at this point that he’ll make it.

wangspeed · Jul 1, 2019

Following up on this. He is all healed. You can hardly tell he had an alien hatch from his gut [emoji1785]There’s a slight dimple where the gaping hole was, but he’s all fine now

GThompson · Jul 1, 2019

Glad he made it !

Angel_Anthias lover · Jul 1, 2019

Yay he looks very pretty never seen one look so healthy, glad he made it too, also a very nice looking leopard wrasse i think from the photo

wangspeed · Jul 2, 2019

Angel_Anthias lover said:
Yay he looks very pretty never seen one look so healthy, glad he made it too, also a very nice looking leopard wrasse i think from the photo

Thank you! That’s a Kuiteri leopard wrasse

Sigh. I tried up upload a picture of a fish and Tapatalk thinks it’s an inappropriate image.

Daniel@R2R · Jul 2, 2019

Wow! Crazy wild story! Glad the little guy recovered!

scchase · Jul 2, 2019

That happened to an Emperor Angel of mine, could see bones sticking out of the hole even, healed up and lived a few more years until a power outage took that tank out.