TRUE STORY!
Hey guys i just wanted to share an interesting story with you, which happened just a few days ago.
The story goes like this...
About 2 weeks ago perhaps more, my heater had mysteriously broke and seeing as its winter here in Sydney at the moment and in the area i live in nights get below 0degrees. i also have no space for some of my tanks to be kept inside so i keep them in the garage and it gets really cold in there. So i moved all my fish and had to put them temporarily into another tank with a heater as the water was already really cold and the fish were already lying on the bottom of the tank.
I had 4 fish in the tank a 4inch red devil, a 5 inch Convict x Texas hybrid, a 4 inch Jag and a little 2inch Convict x Texas hybrid which was from the same batch as the 5 inch Contex (i lamely nicknamed them lol sorry). i had sold the rest of that batch to my LFS, but kept these two for some strange reason, sort of a favoritism sort of thing, i couldn't seem to part with them. Particularly the 2inch one, it had a special tail.. haha a "deformity" some others might say, but to me he was perfectly fine and had a big appetite so yeah i kept him.
Anywho back to my story.
I moved the three bigger ones easily to the other tank, but i couldn't seem to find the smaller Contex my tank had heaps of caves i made from rocks and being small i couldn't find him at all, i idiotically assumed the worse and left it. So 2 weeks later.. i cleaned out the tank to get it ready for use again, as i removed all the rocks from the tank a small fish hovered toward the front of the glass, i regconised it straight away cause of the tail.. and i was really annoyed with myself for not looking harder last time.. then i noticed that its colours were to my suprise still intact, dull but not white and its eyes were still black, but marbley (not sure if that makes sense) but enough to know it didn't look like a dead fish should look after 2 weeks. So as i took a closer look i noticed it was twitching, it seemed to be breathing at a very slow rate and its fins moved every now and again. i knew straight away it was definitely still alive and i was super amazed.. the water was so cold i could barely keep my hands in it whilst removing rocks.
So quickly i found a plastic bag and i put him in with the freezing water and i floated the bag in another tank..
and put some of the warm water in every half hour, hoping not to send the fish into shock or something.
For a moment it was touch and go and i thought i lost the fish from stress.
But after about nearly 2 hours i released him into the tank, he went straight to the bottom and just lay in the corner,
At this point i had 2 thoughts; it was either unable to cope with the sudden change and was dying slowly, or it had burst its swim bladder and was doomed. But not wanting to get ahead of myself i left him again for another half hour, watching over it to see what would happen.
Just when i was about to give up, my lovely Jaguar "Kat" Came along and gave the little fella a nudge, literally a nudge, wasn't aggressive.. seemed like she was just seeing what was up, And in an instant, It got up and started swimming around slowly at first and made its way into a pot, which to its surprise belonged to my 2inch Juvie FH. With one flare of my FH the contex was sent away, and from that moment it just kept swimming around the tank as if nothing had happened. One of the most amazing things ever i think.. And what a strong and hardy fish! Must be the convict blood LOl its perfectly fine until now
Anyway for those who stuck around and read the entire thing.. haha thank you and i hope you enjoyed my little story just wanted to share.
Mikey
Hey guys i just wanted to share an interesting story with you, which happened just a few days ago.
The story goes like this...
About 2 weeks ago perhaps more, my heater had mysteriously broke and seeing as its winter here in Sydney at the moment and in the area i live in nights get below 0degrees. i also have no space for some of my tanks to be kept inside so i keep them in the garage and it gets really cold in there. So i moved all my fish and had to put them temporarily into another tank with a heater as the water was already really cold and the fish were already lying on the bottom of the tank.
I had 4 fish in the tank a 4inch red devil, a 5 inch Convict x Texas hybrid, a 4 inch Jag and a little 2inch Convict x Texas hybrid which was from the same batch as the 5 inch Contex (i lamely nicknamed them lol sorry). i had sold the rest of that batch to my LFS, but kept these two for some strange reason, sort of a favoritism sort of thing, i couldn't seem to part with them. Particularly the 2inch one, it had a special tail.. haha a "deformity" some others might say, but to me he was perfectly fine and had a big appetite so yeah i kept him.
Anywho back to my story.
I moved the three bigger ones easily to the other tank, but i couldn't seem to find the smaller Contex my tank had heaps of caves i made from rocks and being small i couldn't find him at all, i idiotically assumed the worse and left it. So 2 weeks later.. i cleaned out the tank to get it ready for use again, as i removed all the rocks from the tank a small fish hovered toward the front of the glass, i regconised it straight away cause of the tail.. and i was really annoyed with myself for not looking harder last time.. then i noticed that its colours were to my suprise still intact, dull but not white and its eyes were still black, but marbley (not sure if that makes sense) but enough to know it didn't look like a dead fish should look after 2 weeks. So as i took a closer look i noticed it was twitching, it seemed to be breathing at a very slow rate and its fins moved every now and again. i knew straight away it was definitely still alive and i was super amazed.. the water was so cold i could barely keep my hands in it whilst removing rocks.
So quickly i found a plastic bag and i put him in with the freezing water and i floated the bag in another tank..
and put some of the warm water in every half hour, hoping not to send the fish into shock or something.
For a moment it was touch and go and i thought i lost the fish from stress.
But after about nearly 2 hours i released him into the tank, he went straight to the bottom and just lay in the corner,
At this point i had 2 thoughts; it was either unable to cope with the sudden change and was dying slowly, or it had burst its swim bladder and was doomed. But not wanting to get ahead of myself i left him again for another half hour, watching over it to see what would happen.
Just when i was about to give up, my lovely Jaguar "Kat" Came along and gave the little fella a nudge, literally a nudge, wasn't aggressive.. seemed like she was just seeing what was up, And in an instant, It got up and started swimming around slowly at first and made its way into a pot, which to its surprise belonged to my 2inch Juvie FH. With one flare of my FH the contex was sent away, and from that moment it just kept swimming around the tank as if nothing had happened. One of the most amazing things ever i think.. And what a strong and hardy fish! Must be the convict blood LOl its perfectly fine until now
Anyway for those who stuck around and read the entire thing.. haha thank you and i hope you enjoyed my little story just wanted to share.
Mikey