Back from the dead?

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Gonzaga

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Has anyone ever brought a fish back to life? I came home last nite and found that my Green Terror was nowhere to be seen!! I looked around in all the tanks thinking my father may have switched things up. No luck. Found the little guy under a filter box behind one of my tanks.:( Thought he was dead but he had a slight twitch to him. I threw him back in the water and revived him just like I would a fish I caught. Sat there for 15 minutes trying to get him to breather. He spit up all his food and started to come to. This morning he was back to normal!

Has anyone ever had to do this?? Do you think his behaviors might be changed due to the lack of oxygen to his brain?
 
I had a yellow lab that was almost dry and it came back, it took it a coulple of weeks to get back to normal.
 
i revived 5 piranhas. they didn't like the 2 hour drive in a bucket n i found all 5 floating on there sides gasping for air, threw them in the tank at my house n they sunk straight to the bottom. i thought my other 6 piranha were gonna nab them up quick but they didn't. i was pissed cuz i thought they were all dead so i just left them in there isntead of throwing them away. next morning they were riding tuff next to all my current piranhas. alive n crazy lol
 
We had a really bad ice storm a couple weeks back. I have an above ground pool converted to a pond. Well, the bad thing about above ground pools is that the water is subject to temperature change because there is no earth to insulate. I have no heater...lesson number one: above ground pools do not make good ponds, unless you can afford to heat/cool the water.:nilly:

Anyways man, I went out during this sleet storm and peered into the water. Tilapia were all over the bottom of the pool, on their side and upside down. Lifeless. I used a pool net to scoop them out and filled a large rubbermaid container with the cold water. I noticed no gill movement in my hands. I felt so horrible for them. These fish were DEAD.

I took a water heater and slowly raised the temp of the water after I got as many as I could out. Even goldfish were very clumsy and easily retrieved. Over a course of 3 hours with the heater on and air pumped into the water, water temp went from 34 degrees to 75 degrees and EVERY one of them suckers revived and even thrashed when I approached the container they were in. I then put them into a 240 gallon aquarium I just purchased second-hand the day before. Treated the water and got the pumps working and they ended up being my tank cyclers. Every one of those fish revived from what seemed like the dead. I, on the otherhand could not feel my fingers and toes by the time I was done retreiving these fish, and ended up getting soaked with cold water and sleet.
I think I am going to just dig a small pond instead of the whole above ground pool thing. ;)
 
Saved my g/f's betta the other day. Actually had died/shocked because of during a water change I put him in a holding container and the temp of the water was higher. Totally stopped breathing, and was upside down. Started moving him back and forth and saw a little gill movment and then oxgenated the water a little and was just sitting by the next morning he was fine. Still flairs his gills when he sees me. He was dead for at least a minute or two.
 
Love the stories:thumbsup: It's been a day now and he's doin fine. Actually seems to be a little more mellow than he was.
 
I had a bullhead catfish that was dried up on the carpet. I thought one of my dogs had gone to the bathroom on the carpet because that is what it looked like with little carpet fibers and dog hairs stuck to it. I used a paper towel to pick it up because I thought it was dog doo, and I realized that it was my catfish even though it was 100% dry. He was fine the next day, although the impeller in my filter was completely clogged from carpet fibers.
 
I found my Snowflake Moray on the floor once. He was dried up, had dog hair stuck to him and was even a little stiff. I threw him back in the tank and that SOB lived a long time after that.:WHOA:
 
I think gts are just naturally tough. I just gave myself a heart attack the other day by not rinsing out my diatom filter sufficiently after cleaning it with a bleach solution. First indication of a problem was my rosy barbs going belly up! My cichlids were all obviously in distress - except for the gt! He seemed happy as a clam!
 
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