Can a fish knock itself out?

[Jim3h]

Hey guys, Im wondering this because I walked down into my room and looked into my tank and my tinfoil barb flipped out, he's still semi-new and he bounced off every side of my fish tank and floated up, I though it died but within a minute he started to breathe again and got back to swimming around, is my fish ok?


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[kavin2845]

I'm wondering this too


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[Mount_Prion]

They definitely can. I believe they can have a concussion similar to that in a human. They can also suffer brain damage, so I'd keep an eye on your fish's behavior.

 

[strollo22]

Agreed with above. Gars do it all the time.

 

[follen]

Be careful my gt swam head first into a piece of would and he no has little spasms once every so often which I believe is due to the head injury he received.


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[J.Lake]

yup fish get head trauma in tanks all the time. could be temp could be permanent and everything in between.
My gars would smash themselves all the time. I couldnt take it no more. Got them a black hard plastic pond and they have not hit themselves since

 

[Jacunaba]

I had a 16" temensis run into the glass after the lights turned off. He was literally knocked out stupid. came to 10 sec later. 3 days later he died.


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[FishNovice]

Hey guys, Im wondering this because I walked down into my room and looked into my tank and my tinfoil barb flipped out, he's still semi-new and he bounced off every side of my fish tank and floated up, I though it died but within a minute he started to breathe again and got back to swimming around, is my fish ok?


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Crazy! I guess it's like a bird flying into a window, but I don't really see fish doing it. Is it just barbs that have this problem?

 

[ecoli73]

Yep...aros also can do this. A lot of time they gets spooked and jump only to hit the cover. Hard enough and they will die.


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[Rafini]

My old pink tail chalceus got spooked a few days after I moved to my new house, came home to find him paralysed on the floor but otherwise not a single scratch.

My theory is that he either knocked himself out from the impact or broke his back. after a few minutes he wasn't breathing, I tried everything to bring him back from methods I have read on here and he was gone. Its a shame he was a really nice chunky one around 8"