My Gar jumped out help!

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My 13" florida has jumped out of his tank, and I have no idea how long he was out. I've put him back in the tank and he has finally gotten himself upright, but I can tell he still has to much air inside of him. Will he fix this on his own? Or is there something I can do to help?

Is there anything I should do with the water to help him heal his injuries? I've already put a bit of salt in the tank and bumped the temp to 84degrees.
 
gars can be breath air and it all depends on how long he was out he might be fine
 
JAF;4291774; said:
My 13" florida has jumped out of his tank, and I have no idea how long he was out. I've put him back in the tank and he has finally gotten himself upright, but I can tell he still has to much air inside of him. Will he fix this on his own? Or is there something I can do to help?

Is there anything I should do with the water to help him heal his injuries? I've already put a bit of salt in the tank and bumped the temp to 84degrees.
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Gars are pretty tough. It isn't as much of an oxygen issue as compared to losing their slime coat from flopping around on carpet. Was he really dry when you found him?
 
Madding;4291790; said:
Gars are pretty tough. It isn't as much of an oxygen issue as compared to losing their slime coat from flopping around on carpet. Was he really dry when you found him?
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Very, I thought he was dead at first, but when I went to pick him up he started squirming and I quickly got him back in his tank.

Right now he can't submerge himself because he's bloated, but he's swimming around and not belly up anymore. His slime coat is a mess though, but I bumped the temp and added some salt.

I was sleeping when all of this happened, and my room is quite a ways from his tank; so I didn't even here anything. I woke up and I got this feeling like something was wrong, and when I got into the living room and peeked in the tank I didn't see him. He was laying in the floor behind the tank. Hopefully I got to him in time. Now I need to come up with something to keep him from doing it again.
 
if you can get a hold of some, add stress coat to the tank (enough to treat the volume of water in the tank), this has compounds in it that will help with slime coat regeneration. just keep the lights in the tank off and monitor the gar...all you can do other than that is wait at this point. hope he pulls through, good luck!--
--solomon
 
E_americanus;4292193; said:
if you can get a hold of some, add stress coat to the tank (enough to treat the volume of water in the tank), this has compounds in it that will help with slime coat regeneration. just keep the lights in the tank off and monitor the gar...all you can do other than that is wait at this point. hope he pulls through, good luck!--
--solomon
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I've already done that, so all I can do now is hope he pulls through. He seems to be doing okay at the moment.

Thanks for all the info and help guys; I will report back in a few days with his condition.
 
the first time mine jumpped it was crispy like yours and was the exacting the same as yours...i held it upright till it could do it on its own...i added stress coat...it spent the better part of 3 days on the bottom not eatting and only moving to get a breath...now since then it has jummper 2 more times, but it was found sooner then the first time...i now have a ton of rocks on the lid to keep it inside...
 
I said I would come back with a status update. He seems to be doing much better and can now freely swim around the whole tank, but I have a concern about his injury's that are healing. He seems to have something growing on them; it's a clear fungus looking stuff, and it's only on his wounds or where he lost scales and most of his slime coat. It looks like the same stuff you would find on a dead fish.

I did a partial water change yesterday and added some more Slime Coat and Salt; as well as Malifix all by API.

Is this something I should be concerned with?
 
JAF;4297922; said:
I have ID'ed it as a bacterial infection. I've been told meds are bad for gars; is these anything I can do besides using medication.
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your gar shouldn't have lost any scales during the fall...it's almost impossible for that to happen due to their scale type. may have been scuffed up, but no scale loss.

don't use meds at this point...and melafix isn't necessarily advised either. keep up salt treatment and do a 50% water change every other day (or every day if you can) and the problem should clear up fast. boost temp to 82F as well--
--solomon
 
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