MONSTER CL'S EMERGENCY!

[Peter McFarlane]

Hey people

I shut down my CL tank today to put them into a bigger community setup.

One of them got caught up in the net somehow. So I had to gently ease him of it, after touching the fish I noticed my hand covered in thick clear slime.

Is this normal/healthy? Or is this a symptom of some kind of sickness?
I know some fish often have ea slight bit of slime on them, but this was very thick.

Any input much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[CoryWM]

Slime coat from the fish, whenever handling fish, it's best to use something that replenishes their slime coat, directly on your hands. When we strip holding fish at work, we coat our hands with stress coat first, so we don't remove their coat and damage their skin. If your fish ever hits the floor, it's the same as road rash from crashing on a motorcycle. When the slime coat is off the scales, they get torn up on anything, carpet will wreak havoc on their scales as they gasp for breath and flop around.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Umm they do secrete my slimecoat in times of stress, id moniter the situation.

 

[ewurm]

How is the fish doing? If it has visible signs of skin damage, I'd treat with melafix. Otherwise, shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Peter McFarlane]

Slime coat from the fish, whenever handling fish, it's best to use something that replenishes their slime coat, directly on your hands. When we strip holding fish at work, we coat our hands with stress coat first, so we don't remove their coat and damage their skin. If your fish ever hits the floor, it's the same as road rash from crashing on a motorcycle. When the slime coat is off the scales, they get torn up on anything, carpet will wreak havoc on their scales as they gasp for breath and flop around.

ah thanks for the info, i never realsied how much damage that could do.

Umm they do secrete my slimecoat in times of stress, id moniter the situation.

am monitoring it closely boggy, will update if required

How is the fish doing? If it has visible signs of skin damage, I'd treat with melafix. Otherwise, shouldn't be a problem.

so sign of any visible damage. his black bars are a lot lighter then they previously were, but then he has moved tank and been stressed with what happened, so fingers crossed he'll be back to black in the near future?