locked jaw?

[D-Train]

if a cichlids jaw gets locked in the outward position is it fixable?

 

[D-Train]

going once?

 

[Knowdafish]

pic?

 

[D-Train]

i cant but its like the fishes mouth is open all the time. you know when a cichlid yawns? well its like it yawned but its mouth wont go back

 

[Ryanmahe]

I've read that it can be fixed by gently pulling the jaw out a little bit further than it is, in hopes of dislodging the bones that are stuck together. I also read that if left for too long it may not be repairable. At the LFS by my house they have a really nice Managuense that has its jaw locked like that.

 

[D-Train]

big als right? ya ive seen it its pretty nasty

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

My Jing Kang got lock jaw for over a week. Scared the crap outa me. He was liplocked for 3 hours strait with another cichlid and it just stuck. It was too extended to fix so I left it. It ended up fixing itself.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

as posted try to move the jaw back into place gently, it should be repairable, not experianced myself "touch wood" but ive seen it be repaired on here before.

 

[Ryanmahe]

big als right? ya ive seen it its pretty nasty

Yea thats the one, its a really nice jag, or was.... If you can get him free or really cheap then do it and try to save him

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

If it's ripped out of place it might not be fixable, if it's just a small dislocation you can take the fish out in a net and try to gently move it back into place but extending the joints and moving the jaw in a manner that would coincide with how it moves normally when the fish yawns to try and pop the bones back into socket.