Lognose went suicidal?

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Jack Dempsey
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I am hurtin' for certain. My favorite fish (longnose gar) leaped out of the aquarium during the weekly water change on Friday. I have only had one other fish do this (a clown knife) around six months ago, and is still fine today.

The LNG had a small scratch on the back just below the head, and a seriously scratched (but not broken as far as I can tell) tip of his snout. I am not positive how long that he was out of the water, but it had to be less then a half hour.

He is still swiming fine and looks OK, but has not eaten since the leap out.

Is there anything that I should be doing to help with its recovery?
 
clean water, and welcome to the world of gar. lol.
i had a florida who did this 3 times when i was acclimating it. he turned out ok.
 
Thanks! I did the standard 50% W/C on Friday. Prior to the water change the Ammonia and Nitrite readings were both zero, but the Nitrate reading was high @ around 50. A smaller W/C is feasible and I will do around a 20-25% tonight after I try to get him to eat once more.
 
nitrate of 50 is not high. do not listen to those psycos that say it is. is it eleveated? yeah. is it high? no.

I have had tanks(had is the key word) with nitrates 4 times taht. There is no risk of that unless u r raising uber sensetive fish.
 
mcredimus;4100531; said:
i agree. i do a lot of netting in nasty drainage creeks whose samples test way above what nasty tanks do and find tons of strong healthy fish.
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No matter how nasty the creek water is, remember that it is not a small, enclosed setting with circulating water.

That said, I think the OP is fine with his nitrates and agree with both of the above posters.
 
One lesson learned. I need to get my lazy butt into gear put the back attachment onto the glass lids to assure that the kamakazi kookoo flop does not happen again, I am not sure, but I think that he jumped out very close to the end of the refilling stage of the water change.

I did (major embarisment here) fill the tank way too full (~ 1/8th to 1/4 inch from the rim). I drained the tank to around 3/4 inch from the rim after returning my buddy to the tank.

An interesting side note: I freaked out so bad when I saw my little buddy on the carpet, that I RAN to him and picked him up without so much a one milisecond hesitation or consideration of his mojo sharp teeth. He squirmed out of my hands and scooted under the tank stand. I was thinking about what to do when he scooted back out from under the tank stand and clearly let me return him to the tank by hand at that point.

I gently placed him into the water in my hands and gently made sure that water was pumping through his gills by moving him lengthwise through the water front to back (the way that you are suppose to return fish that you catch on your fishing rod.
 
Logan finally was able to eat successfully last night. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I am still a little worried about him though. He has taken market fish fillet chunks and squid chunks on Monday and Tuesday nights but gave up on trying to swallow them. He has never had this problem in the past since learning to take meat off a meat skewer!
 
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