Feedback on my Orino Hospital tank pls

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West1

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My Orino got stabbed in the left eye from the Armatus and I had no where to put him.... I found a 10gl and tried to make the best of it...

I got a powerhead from my growout tank and added ceramic rings from my 300 in the sponges... then I had to devide the flow cause it was way to strong. In doing so I thought "Man, my params are going to go threw the roof". So I tried to make a "BootLeg" Sump out of a aquafina bottle.
Half of the bottel is out of water...
I stuffed it with cycled bioballs and the top portion has a sponge.

I am doing daily H2O changes of 20% (40% every other day to keep the Params in check)

I posted some pics

I guess my main Q is "Was all of this pointless???"

The first pic is 1 day after he was stabbed in the eye...
2nd pic is the 2nd day after being in the Hospital tank (you cant tell but it is getting better)

I just hope his eye will clear up (It dont look like he will be a cyclops)

Thanks

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Seems to be working.
 
Damn E... sorry to see, no pun intended.

Eye looks pretty bad. The eye will probably heal but will be blind in that eye (dependent exactly where in the inner eye it got stabbed)

It makes it easier to treat and lessen the chance of infection transferring it to a smaller tank. As long as you see no infection it's presumably something that will heal on it's own. In the past I've just treated w/salt and continues water change.

I had an Azul back in the day that had one shot eye =-(. The whole eye was intact it was just the pupil that was shot =-(

BTW - I take in damaged Orino's...
 
this is why i am leaning towards no with mixing my cuban gars with future armatus'

good luck with the orino, looks like it had great markings. have to say thou, my fav are DMs'
 
R1_Ridah;2889122; said:
BTW - I take in damaged Orino's...

:ROFL:
Im keeping my hopes high big dogg.
Hoping the bootleg set up will help him. I am ussing some Med thet turns the water yellow and in a couple days it turns the water Red.... it is suppos to be for wounds. i figure since everyone has used Pi/Melifix on this situation and has had low to none luck, it is time to chance it another direction with Meds.

I have to say I feel pretty good about his eye. It looks better and It seems as if his bad eye moves with sudden movement (could be from the refl. of the glass tank).

We will see what happs

My wife was laughing at my Ghetto 12oz Sump...:ROFL:
 
I thought Xcuter was picking it up last weekend! Change of heart? :confused: Good luck, Big Dogg! The eye is a goner, though. :(
 
he'll heal...thought he very likely will be one eye blind...
best of luck bro.
that armatus of yours is one mean SOB...
 
man thats a ghetto hosital tank!! i love it lol.. gotta do what you gotta do huh..
 
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