believe it or not some fish can survive out of water for about 30 minutes my fire eel jumped out it had to be at least 20 minutes before i noticed Sorry for your loss
That is so true because when I was a kid we had a large goldfish tank
Anyway.. one saturday morning before my cartoons and cereal... I saw "the big one" just lying there... on the floor. We never had a hood . So it wasn't moving. I screamed to my mom like little Amelie in the movie and she came and put it in....... it was alive! Died years later