I need help ASAP, my female Dovii jumped!

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I came home from class to my dog leading me into my bedroom to show me my female dovii laying on the floor dried up (Lassie type moment)! :( I got her back into the tank and she started breathing again. I placed the airstone tube into her mouth forcing oxygen into her gills and she started breathing with her mouth (opening and closing it) and her gills. I removed some tank water and placed her in a cooler with three airstones, is there anything else I can do? She moves her eyes and fins a little, but cannot stay upright. Help please, I am distraught.
 
melafix and pimafix combo to stave off fungus and bacteria, the melafix has something in to give a calming effect to the fish as well as just being an all round good med. get a mature filter running or place her back in the main tank if she is alone in there. airstones wont do squat for her if she is sitting in unfiltered water in her own muck. add the airstones to where ever you put her to work alongside the filter.

also read this http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211356
some good advice there.
 
she was in the tank with her breeding partner and fry so i dont want to put her back in there, I may have to go and buy a QT tank in a few mins. I have added melafix to the cooler.
 
you still need at least a sponge filter as a bare minimum. take some media out the mature one running on the breeding tank. everything else is pointless, or at least made way harder, if you cant filter the cooler.
 
ok thanks, luckily I had read that previous post while just browsing through the forum about a month ago, so I had general idea of what to do, just wanted to make sure I am doing things right, and if I needed to change anything. I am going to go buy a 10 gallon QT (made previous qt into a wet dry filter mere days ago, what bad timing that was!), and move a filter to it.
 
cichlid2006;2735135; said:
melafix and pimafix combo to stave off fungus and bacteria, the melafix has something in to give a calming effect to the fish as well as just being an all round good med. get a mature filter running or place her back in the main tank if she is alone in there. airstones wont do squat for her if she is sitting in unfiltered water in her own muck. add the airstones to where ever you put her to work alongside the filter.

also read this http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211356
some good advice there.
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Excellent info.
 
any pics? that could help...

maybe...

i kinda like just seeing these things lol
 
hold her directly into the flow of a power head for a long time, say 10-20 mins and she'll get better
 
You'd be surprised how tough fish are - the key here is to keep her upright until she re-saturates her skin and starts to de-stress...MelaFix and PimaFix are good suggestions, even a half dose of aquarium salt could help to spur a slime coat.

The main reason she's on her side is stress related if she's breathing. I've had loaches jump from tanks and dry out to having blue eyes and still revived em'. Just make sure she stays upright.
 
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