WOW! This freaked me out soooo much! Okay:
I was gonna put my older brother's Jack Dempsey into the 55 from his 29 (changed it to planted for community fish). Filled a 5 gallon bucket halfway and left him their for a while, while I fiddle and take care of getting all the plants and stuff in. I went upstairs to watch TV for around an hour and came back to check up on him, all ready to put him in the 55 gallon and no fish!
At this point I was like WTF! Looked around and found him laying 5 ft away from his bucket all dried up and motionless for how long it was there. Took him to his bucket and tried reviving him by putting an air tube down his throat so air can fill his gills.
Did this for around 5 minutes...still nothing, motionless. Kept on doing it and finally his gill moved like it just took a good amount of air in! I was so happy to see him fighting so hard to survive and I also tried sooo hard to revive my brother's only fish. Kept doing it until it finally moved more and began breathing normal again instead of taking a breath every 3 mins or so. Decided to give him more air and add an extra air pump. Still I kept doing the fish CPR thing and see if he could swim upright or at least hold himself, failed, he went directly in a laying on his side position, so I took him again and gently place the tube back in his mouth, again he took another good amount of air in and this time he started to swim around but would soon go back to laying down, so I decided to do my own whirlpool with my hands and he tried swimming against it and finally! He started to swim normal. Still not perfect but now he can stay upright and get where he wants. Added him into the 55 gallon and is now doing okay for the momment.
Sorry for the long writeup guys but this is about the 2nd time this ever happened to me at reviving a "so called Dead fish". BTW this took me around 30 mins to do and every min counts!
I was gonna put my older brother's Jack Dempsey into the 55 from his 29 (changed it to planted for community fish). Filled a 5 gallon bucket halfway and left him their for a while, while I fiddle and take care of getting all the plants and stuff in. I went upstairs to watch TV for around an hour and came back to check up on him, all ready to put him in the 55 gallon and no fish!
At this point I was like WTF! Looked around and found him laying 5 ft away from his bucket all dried up and motionless for how long it was there. Took him to his bucket and tried reviving him by putting an air tube down his throat so air can fill his gills.
Did this for around 5 minutes...still nothing, motionless. Kept on doing it and finally his gill moved like it just took a good amount of air in! I was so happy to see him fighting so hard to survive and I also tried sooo hard to revive my brother's only fish. Kept doing it until it finally moved more and began breathing normal again instead of taking a breath every 3 mins or so. Decided to give him more air and add an extra air pump. Still I kept doing the fish CPR thing and see if he could swim upright or at least hold himself, failed, he went directly in a laying on his side position, so I took him again and gently place the tube back in his mouth, again he took another good amount of air in and this time he started to swim around but would soon go back to laying down, so I decided to do my own whirlpool with my hands and he tried swimming against it and finally! He started to swim normal. Still not perfect but now he can stay upright and get where he wants. Added him into the 55 gallon and is now doing okay for the momment.
Sorry for the long writeup guys but this is about the 2nd time this ever happened to me at reviving a "so called Dead fish". BTW this took me around 30 mins to do and every min counts!
