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Here is the story from the top so you know the history
I brought to peacock bass . . temensis from devon i am based in birmingham this is UK by the way the distance is 150 - 200 miles the man was delivering as he works up this way he set out at 5am and arrived at 8 am so a 3 hour journey for them anyway i opened the box and they were both belly up just floating upside down the man gave them a poke and realised that both of their gills were still going so said we must immediately get them in a tank and get water circulating over their gills. I managed to wedge a towel in place that they could sit on at the surface where i have my return from my sump pushing 8000 lph. the 12 " bass died within an hour but the 15" was still gasping i got home from work the 15" had been in the towel a good 8/9 hours by now and still looked rought but had picked up slightly every now and again he would lift his own weight off the towel and hover but no intention to swim off even if i touch him in the end he decided enough was enough and swam out of the towel after about 11 hours in it on the night he was sitting on the bottom and every now and again he would lift and do a poor swim but never the less he was moving through the night he sat and didnt move at all then this morning it has now been 24 hours and he his very gently moving around but is VERY delicate and soon tires. My question is is he going to be okay? i think the long journey he ran out of oxygen they were both in a box and they are both large fish and the box was sealed around the seam so im guessing once they used the oxygen in the box they ran out????? he just done a 5 mins hover while iv been writing this but has now needed to sit down on the sand so what should i do? il attach some pics and a video if i can of the one that died and the 1 that is still fighting.
Here is the story from the top so you know the history
I brought to peacock bass . . temensis from devon i am based in birmingham this is UK by the way the distance is 150 - 200 miles the man was delivering as he works up this way he set out at 5am and arrived at 8 am so a 3 hour journey for them anyway i opened the box and they were both belly up just floating upside down the man gave them a poke and realised that both of their gills were still going so said we must immediately get them in a tank and get water circulating over their gills. I managed to wedge a towel in place that they could sit on at the surface where i have my return from my sump pushing 8000 lph. the 12 " bass died within an hour but the 15" was still gasping i got home from work the 15" had been in the towel a good 8/9 hours by now and still looked rought but had picked up slightly every now and again he would lift his own weight off the towel and hover but no intention to swim off even if i touch him in the end he decided enough was enough and swam out of the towel after about 11 hours in it on the night he was sitting on the bottom and every now and again he would lift and do a poor swim but never the less he was moving through the night he sat and didnt move at all then this morning it has now been 24 hours and he his very gently moving around but is VERY delicate and soon tires. My question is is he going to be okay? i think the long journey he ran out of oxygen they were both in a box and they are both large fish and the box was sealed around the seam so im guessing once they used the oxygen in the box they ran out????? he just done a 5 mins hover while iv been writing this but has now needed to sit down on the sand so what should i do? il attach some pics and a video if i can of the one that died and the 1 that is still fighting.
