How did you pick it up? Bare hands?
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Mine jumped out 5 times within the first 3 years that I had him, and I just grabbed him firmly behind the pectoral fins with my bare hands. I tried using a towel a couple times, but I could never get a good enough grip on him that way.
The one I had jumped out on numerous occasions and he recovered just fine every time. I must say that they are one strong smelling fish, though. I had to get rid of him because he was getting too big to pick up easily and no matter what I did he seemed to knock the lids off.
This is why I gave up Aros not because they're too big or hard to keep...it's just their easily spook and injures itself and some cases kill itself cause of that.
I ended up solving the jumping out issue by attaching heavy duty velcro straps to all my lids, but he died 2 years later, for no apparent reason. I wasn't around when it happened, but I was told that he was fine one minute, and the next, he wasn't moving at all. My only guess is that he had suffered a head injury. I think the only good long term solution is to lower the water level a bit, and to keep aros in a large enough aquarium to where when they get spooked, they have somewhere to go, other than up. This is the advice that Bderick67 gave me years ago, but I was hardheaded and didn't listen, and I think that is probably why my aro didn't make it.