So I have a 16" Silver Arowana in a 1000 gallon. It has thick and strong lids. I fed my fish, and forgot to close the lid.
So she jumped out.
I found her on the floor (I had left the room for a few hours.) she was unconscious but her gills were still moving. She took an 8 foot drop onto a concrete floor, and she was banged up super bad.
I put her in the aquarium as fast as possible, and then noticed she was unconscious. At first I thought her swim bladder had been damaged because she was floating upside down, but as she began to wake up she could swim (almost) perfect. She does not have any swim bladder issues as far as I can see.
She began to dry out when I found her, no idea how long she'd been without water. She lost almost all of her slime, her eyes are sunken in and turned cloudy, and she has huge open wounds and so many broken and missing scales she has maybe 30% of her scales not damaged. I cannot tell if she has internal bleeding because all she's really got left is flesh.
She's breathing, irregularly, gulping for air, and will sometimes dart to the waters surface. She's able to move pretty good, and can most certainly see, but she's clearly in awful condition. Sometimes she'll go stiff as board and float around the aquarium and bump into the walls. She's lot leaned on her side or anything she's vertical the whole time.
I am planning on adding Melafix, but I do not have near enough to treat a 1000 gallons. I was going to move her to my 150 gallon, but I am so worried than the transportation will add some very unwanted stress and could kill her. Tomorrow if she's still alive, I'm running to get like 10 bottles of Melafix maybe more. I have built such and amazing bond with her, to the point I can even pet her. It's really heartbreaking to see the only reason I built a 1000 gallon tank die because of my foolish mistake.
Is there any advice you guys could give me to help her, I'm willing to do anything for any goddamn price at this point.
I know her odds are terribly slim, but I refuse to give up on her. Currently I have dimmed the light, and raised aeration,.
So she jumped out.
I found her on the floor (I had left the room for a few hours.) she was unconscious but her gills were still moving. She took an 8 foot drop onto a concrete floor, and she was banged up super bad.
I put her in the aquarium as fast as possible, and then noticed she was unconscious. At first I thought her swim bladder had been damaged because she was floating upside down, but as she began to wake up she could swim (almost) perfect. She does not have any swim bladder issues as far as I can see.
She began to dry out when I found her, no idea how long she'd been without water. She lost almost all of her slime, her eyes are sunken in and turned cloudy, and she has huge open wounds and so many broken and missing scales she has maybe 30% of her scales not damaged. I cannot tell if she has internal bleeding because all she's really got left is flesh.
She's breathing, irregularly, gulping for air, and will sometimes dart to the waters surface. She's able to move pretty good, and can most certainly see, but she's clearly in awful condition. Sometimes she'll go stiff as board and float around the aquarium and bump into the walls. She's lot leaned on her side or anything she's vertical the whole time.
I am planning on adding Melafix, but I do not have near enough to treat a 1000 gallons. I was going to move her to my 150 gallon, but I am so worried than the transportation will add some very unwanted stress and could kill her. Tomorrow if she's still alive, I'm running to get like 10 bottles of Melafix maybe more. I have built such and amazing bond with her, to the point I can even pet her. It's really heartbreaking to see the only reason I built a 1000 gallon tank die because of my foolish mistake.
Is there any advice you guys could give me to help her, I'm willing to do anything for any goddamn price at this point.
I know her odds are terribly slim, but I refuse to give up on her. Currently I have dimmed the light, and raised aeration,.
And then I ended up getting 2, go figure.