I woke up this morning, entered the living room which was still dark because the blinds were closed, then my dog rushed in and started sniffing something on the floor. I thought it was a turd at first and I thought, hmm that's strange, how did that get there.
I bent down to look and thought OH **** that's not a turd, it's the snakehead, quickly threw the dog out of the room and opened the blinds to see if it was alive.
It was completely dry, stuck to the tiled floor and looked dead as a dodo. I ran to a fishtank scouped some water out with my hands and splashed it. No sign of life. Splashed it again, nothing. Splashed it for the 4th time and it started twitching, but it could not move, it was still stuck to the tile. I splashed it about 10 times until it was unstuck in a puddle of water, then quickly syphoned 1/4 of a bucket with tank water, and netted him in there. He looked properly alive in the bucket, swimming around and gulping air.
I let him rest and shed the dust/doghair that was stuck to him, then put him in a tank.
He looked pretty rough, no colouration, cloudy eyes, marks on the body, torn up fins etc. Mainly floating at the top.
A few hours later he was cruising the tank swimming normally, and a couple of hours after that he was ****ing nailing bits of shrimp and bloodworm like there was no tomorrow, and bullying fish
The moral of the story is, snakeheads ****ing rock. You gotta respect the channas, they are beasts. I'm really happy he survived, he's a great specimen cobra, I'll get a pic soon, gotta get them developed. To be completely dry and stuck he must have been on that floor for almost as long as I slept.
I bent down to look and thought OH **** that's not a turd, it's the snakehead, quickly threw the dog out of the room and opened the blinds to see if it was alive.
It was completely dry, stuck to the tiled floor and looked dead as a dodo. I ran to a fishtank scouped some water out with my hands and splashed it. No sign of life. Splashed it again, nothing. Splashed it for the 4th time and it started twitching, but it could not move, it was still stuck to the tile. I splashed it about 10 times until it was unstuck in a puddle of water, then quickly syphoned 1/4 of a bucket with tank water, and netted him in there. He looked properly alive in the bucket, swimming around and gulping air.
I let him rest and shed the dust/doghair that was stuck to him, then put him in a tank.
He looked pretty rough, no colouration, cloudy eyes, marks on the body, torn up fins etc. Mainly floating at the top.
A few hours later he was cruising the tank swimming normally, and a couple of hours after that he was ****ing nailing bits of shrimp and bloodworm like there was no tomorrow, and bullying fish
The moral of the story is, snakeheads ****ing rock. You gotta respect the channas, they are beasts. I'm really happy he survived, he's a great specimen cobra, I'll get a pic soon, gotta get them developed. To be completely dry and stuck he must have been on that floor for almost as long as I slept.
