I was laying in bed, when I heard a crash from my living room. I got up to check it out. I quickly discovered that my fire eel managed to jump the tank, end up on a "half wall" next to the tank, and end up going along this wall until he ended up in the kitchen, and then the kitchen sink full of soapy dirty water and dirty dishes. I quickly got him out of the dirty water, put him in a container, and rinsed him with tank water before returning him to the aquarium. He seems to be doing fine, although he lost quite a bit of slime coat. he's already eating as well. Should he be okay? I'm worried because he was exposed to dish soap and who knows what else in that sink full of dirty dishes.
My fire eel ended up in the kitchen sink! Should I be worried?
- Thread starter Carefree_Dude
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My first worry would be the chemicals harming the gills, so I would certainly run more air into the tank just to help with that stress if there is any. A short swim in chemicals hopefully wont have much effect on anything else, but there isnt much you can do anyway. I would add stress coat or a similar chemical to encourage the slime coat to form and help relieve stress. If he is already eating, it couldnt have been that traumatic so dont worry too too much. GL
Quite a series of events but it sounds like he just might pull through,especially if he is eating already.Hopefully he wasnt exposed to anything harmful long enough for it to do him in.
its a 2 1/2 foot fire eel. I feed him market shrimp that are stuffed with massivore and NLS pellets. I just woke up this morning, and checked on him, and he doesn't have any slime coat hanging off his body anymore so that's good. he was also happy and begging for food again this morning.
I came home from work and was doing my normal fish tank check when I saw something move by the bog bowl. Some how a fish jumped from one of the tanks into the dog bowl and was swimming and splashing around in the bog bowl. The dog bowl is at least 15 inches from the closest tank and 3 feet from the other which is on the counter. Well scooped him out(super cold water) and threw him in the grow out tank and he had been just fine. Not sure how he got there or how long but he made it just fine. Wonder if the dog picked him up off the floor and put him in the bowl.
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what luck or what !! I guess he wanted to take a bath hehe . Glad hes alright . I thought it was rough when my 10 inch female jag jumped out of the tank which has a lid but there is a small opening. She landed in the baby swing !!
Good luck with the fire eel, definitely one of my favorites that scares me to own because of so many issues like this, they love to escape.
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