So on Christmas day Brick swallows a metal plant anchor. He coughed it up at some point. Fast forward to tonight. Everyone got dinner, my O was doing a wild 'feed me' dance. So the main tank gets the first round and I turn my back for about ten seconds to get pellets for Patch and Kong. Turned around and...
Brick had dislocated his jaw. He couldn't close his mouth and it was jacked to the left. I'm like what the **** has he done now? So I prepared a bucket to place him in and see if I could ease his jaw back. He saw the trout net and went berserk, flying all over the tank and giving me a bath. When he finished guess what? His jaw had popped back in place. So he was a bit subdued for a while, 'feeling it out.' Forty five minutes later he's started grubbing for loose pellets on the bottom.
My moron of a Severum noticed a lack of Brick's aggression and decided get 'tough and territorial', tracking the Oscar like a shadow. Of course he didn't do anything, it was all posturing. Now Boss is a bit different, the BP does let the O know when he's had it with Brick bulling his way into everything. So he also picked up on Brick seeming a little 'off' and circled the Oscar slowly, flaring like a shark. Brick rolled sideways and puffed his jaws out in warning. Boss also tilted sideways and kept flaring before swimming towards his hide. My O may be sore but he isn't wounded. Chip will find that out if he keeps playing. Brick ignores his routine, he doesn't see the severum as a threat anyway.
Me? I'm picking up a bottle.
Brick had dislocated his jaw. He couldn't close his mouth and it was jacked to the left. I'm like what the **** has he done now? So I prepared a bucket to place him in and see if I could ease his jaw back. He saw the trout net and went berserk, flying all over the tank and giving me a bath. When he finished guess what? His jaw had popped back in place. So he was a bit subdued for a while, 'feeling it out.' Forty five minutes later he's started grubbing for loose pellets on the bottom.
My moron of a Severum noticed a lack of Brick's aggression and decided get 'tough and territorial', tracking the Oscar like a shadow. Of course he didn't do anything, it was all posturing. Now Boss is a bit different, the BP does let the O know when he's had it with Brick bulling his way into everything. So he also picked up on Brick seeming a little 'off' and circled the Oscar slowly, flaring like a shark. Brick rolled sideways and puffed his jaws out in warning. Boss also tilted sideways and kept flaring before swimming towards his hide. My O may be sore but he isn't wounded. Chip will find that out if he keeps playing. Brick ignores his routine, he doesn't see the severum as a threat anyway.
Me? I'm picking up a bottle.
